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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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- 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
- 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