Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition / Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442

by John Murdoch

[528]. Parry, 2nd Voyage, p. 528.

[529]. Kumlien, Contributions, p. 16.

[530]. Schwatka’s Search, p. 197.

[531]. Greenland, p. 139.

[532]. Geogr., Tids., vol. 8, p. 92.

[533]. Compare Parry, 2d Voyage, pp. 526-528, Nordenskiöld (Vega, vol. 1, p. 449): The women are “treated as the equals of the men, and the wife was always consulted by the husband when a more important bargain than usual was to be made.” (Pitlekaj.) This statement is applicable, word for word, to the women of Point Barrow.

[534]. Op. cit., p 252.

[535]. See Egede, p. 144, “for according to them it signifies nothing that a man beats his wife.”

[536]. Op. cit., p. 253.

[537]. Vol. 1, p. 165.