The Point Barrow Expedition
by John Murdoch
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About this eBook
- Author
- Murdoch, John, 1852-1925
- Title
- 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
- Credits
- Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E011: History: America: America
- Subject
- Eskimos -- Alaska -- Barrow, Point, Region
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43568
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43568
- Release Date
- August 26, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ETHNOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE POINT BARROW EXPEDITION.
- 2.BY JOHN MURDOCH, — CONTENTS. — ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 3.ETHNOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE POINT BARROW EXPEDITION. — INTRODUCTION. — LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED. — SITUATION AND SURROUNDINGS. — CLIMATE. — THE PEOPLE. — PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS. — PSYCHICAL CHARACTERISTICS. — TRIBAL PHENOMENA. — SOCIAL SURROUNDINGS. — NATURAL RESOURCES. — ANIMALS. — PLANTS. — MINERALS. — CULTURE. — MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. — HABITATIONS. — HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. — CLOTHING. — PERSONAL ADORNMENT. — Footnotes 1-272
- 4.ETHNOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE POINT BARROW EXPEDITION. — IMPLEMENTS FOR GENERAL USE. — WEAPONS. — HUNTING IMPLEMENTS OTHER THAN WEAPONS. — METHODS OF HUNTING. — IMPLEMENTS FOR FISHING. — FLINT WORKING. — FIRE MAKING. — BOW-AND-ARROW MAKING. — Footnotes 273-410
- 5.ETHNOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE POINT BARROW EXPEDITION. — SKIN-WORKING. — MANUFACTURE OF LINES OF THONG. — BUILDERS’ TOOLS. — TOOLS FOR SNOW AND ICE WORKING. — IMPLEMENTS FOR PROCURING AND PREPARING FOOD. — MAKING AND WORKING FIBER. — MEANS OF LOCOMOTION AND TRANSPORTATION. — HUNTING SCORES. — GAMES AND PASTIMES. — TOYS AND SPORTS FOR CHILDREN AND OTHERS. — MUSIC. — ART. — DOMESTIC LIFE. — RIGHTS AND WRONGS. — SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS. — CUSTOMS CONCERNING THE DEAD. — GOVERNMENT. — RELIGION. — Footnotes 411-641
- 6.INDEX. — Errors and Inconsistencies
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