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Labrador winter : the ethnographic journals of William Duncan Strong, 1927-1928 / edited by Eleanor B. Leacock and Nan A. Rothschild ; afterword and bibliographic essay by Stephen Loring.

Title
Labrador winter : the ethnographic journals of William Duncan Strong, 1927-1928 / edited by Eleanor B. Leacock and Nan A. Rothschild ; afterword and bibliographic essay by Stephen Loring.
Author
Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962.
Publication
Washington : Smithsonian Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-
  • Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-1987.
  • Rothschild, Nan A., 1937-
Description
xxvi, 235 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Record of a winter spent with a Montagnais-Naskapi band in the northeastern Labrador Peninsula.
Alternative Title
Ethnographic journals of William Duncan Strong, 1927-1928
Subject
  • Montagnais Indians
  • Naskapi Indians
  • Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Opinions of Labrador -- Introduction -- Grouping and environment of the Northeastern Algonquian -- Previous exploration in the Northeastern interior -- Summer contacts with the Barren Ground Band -- An autumn canoe trip in search of the Davis Inlet Band -- A winter camp of the Barren Ground People -- First meeting with the Davis Inlet Band -- Origin and history of the Davis Inlet Band -- Habitations and snowshoes -- Trapping, fishing, and territorial ownership at Kapakwa'napen, "The trouting place" -- Specimen days in camp -- Camp and family life -- Specimen days on the trail -- Plenty and starvation, sickness and death -- Deities and ritual practices -- Appendix one: Mythology and storytelling -- Appendix two: Census of Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Bands -- Appendix three: Record of hunting trips and animals caught, taken from Strong's diary -- Appendix four: Record of meals, taken from Strong's diary -- Afterword and bibliographic essay / Stephen Loring.
ISBN
1560983450 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^93034521^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library