Research Catalog

Title

Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory : indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador peninsula / by Lucien M. Turner ; with a forward by Asen Balikci and an index.

Author

Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)

Publication

Quebec, Canada : Press COMEDITEX, 1979.

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Additional Authors

• Balikci, Asen, 1929-2019
• Inuksiutiit katimajiit
• Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology.

Description

189 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Originally published in 1894 as part of the Eleventh Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890. First thorough account of the Ungava district inhabitants, describing their traditional ways.

Alternative Title

Indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador peninsula

Subject

• Indians of North America
• Eskimos > Québec (Province) > Culture
• Indians of North America > Ungava Peninsula > Social life and customs
• Indians of North America > Ungava Peninsula > Folklore
• Ungava Bay Region

Genre/Form

Folklore

Note

• At head of title: Inuksiutiit Association.
• "Originally published in 1894 as part of the Eleventh Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890 (Washington, Government Printing Office). The pages numbered 165-350 in the original eidtion, become 1 to 190 in the present one. Illustrations and plates have been renumbered."
• "Published by Presses Comeditex in collaboration with Inuksiutiit Association Inc. (Laval University, Quebec), as the second volume of the collection E/SPACES."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Fort Chimo and the surrounding region -- Height of the land -- Climate -- Auroras -- Vegetation -- Animal life -- Mammals -- Birds -- Native inhabitants of the country -- general sketch -- Eskimo -- Indians -- Habits -- Special account of the people around Fort Chimo -- Koksoagmynt (People around Fort Chimo) -- Physical characteristics -- Diseases -- Marriage -- Children -- Burial customs -- Religion (the talismans, magic dolls, amulets) -- Outdoor life -- Tattooing -- Clothing (Eskimo men & women birdskin cap, deerskin & sealskin coat, boots & ice-shoes) -- Dwellings (the tent) -- Household articles (soapstone lamp, kettle, wooden dish) -- Food and its preparation -- Tobacco and snuff -- Means of transportation -- By water (Eskimo umlak, ski canoe or kaiak) -- On land (dog sled & whip) -- Weapons and other hunting implements -- Hunting (arrows, bone spears) -- Miscellaneous implements (ivory stone knife, back scratcher) -- Amusements (cup & ball, football & driver, dominoes) --^
• Art (Eskimo doll, man & woman, violin) -- Story-telling and folklore -- Origin of the Innuit -- Coming of the white people -- Origin of living things on the earth and in the water -- Origin of the guillemots -- Origin of the raven -- Origin of the quadrangular spots on the loon's back -- Origin of the gulls -- Origin of the hawks -- Origin of the swallow -- Hare -- Wolf -- Lice -- Origin of mosquitoes -- Story of the man and his fox wife -- Rivals -- Jealous man -- Story of the orphan boy -- Origin of the sun, moon, and stars -- Auroras -- Sky -- Winds -- Nenenot or "Naskopie"- Principal characteristics -- [includes role of women; marriage ceremony ; death ; burial] -- Clothing -- Preparation of the skins for clothing -- [snow goggles] -- Dwellings -- Sweat houses -- Household utensils, etc. -- Tobacco and pipes -- Means of transportation -- By water -- By land -- Weapons -- Hunting -- Miscellaneous implements, tools, etc. -- Amusements -- Festivals -- Folklore --^
• Story of the wolverine and the brant -- Story of the wolverine -- Deer and the squirrel -- Young man who went to live with the deer -- Wolf's daughter going to seek her lover -- Devil punishing a liar -- A wolverine destroys his sister -- Rabbit and the frog -- Wolverine and the rock -- Creation of people by the wolverine and the muskrat -- Origin of the whitish spot on the throat of the marten -- Indian and his beaver wife -- Venturesome hare -- Spirit guiding a child left by its parents -- Fate of two Indian men -- Starving wolverine -- Starving Indians

ISBN

2890100014

OCLC

• 6015663
• SCSB-10081122

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library