Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory

by Turner, Lucien M.; Loring, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781560989653
• ISBN10: 1560989653
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-17
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

Summary

Especially notable for Lucien Turner's descriptions of nineteenth-century Native material culture, Ethnology of the Ungava District was originally published in 1894 as part of the Smithsonian's Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology series -- often considered to mark the beginning of American anthropological studies. This reissue, with an insightful new introduction, ensures that Turner's work continues to be a classic introduction to the culture of the Innu and Inuit people of northern Quebec and Labrador.

Author Biography

Lucien M. Turner (1848-1909) contributed significantly to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution; he was the author of Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska (1886)

Table of Contents

Introduction	167	(1)
Fort Chimo and the surrounding region	167	(5)
Climate	172	(1)
Auroras	173	(1)
Vegetation	173	(1)
Animal life	174	(1)
Mammals	174	(1)
Birds	175	(1)
The native inhabitants of the country---general sketch	175	(9)
The Eskimo	175	(6)
The Indians	181	(3)
Special account of the people around Fort Chimo	184
The Koksoagmyut	184
Physical characteristics	184
Diseases	187
Marriage	188
Children	190
Burial customs	191
Religion	193
Outdoor life	202
Tattooing	207
Clothing	208
Dwellings	223
Household articles	228
Food and its preparation	232
Tobacco and snuff	234
Means of transportation	235
By water	235
On land	240
Weapons and other hunting implements	246
Hunting	249
Miscellaneous implements	252
Amusements	254
Art	259
Story-telling and folklore	260
Origin of the Innuit	261
The coming of the white people	261
Origin of living things on the earth and in the water	261
Origin of the guillemots	262
Origin of the raven	262
Origin of the quadrangular spots on the loon's back	262
Origin of the gulls	263
Origin of the hawks	263
Origin of the swallow	263
The hare	263
The wolf	263
Lice	263
Origin of mosquitoes	264
Story of the man and his fox wife	264
The rivals	264
The jealous man	264
Story of the orphan boy	265
The origin of the sun, moon, and stars	266
Auroras	266
The sky	266
The winds	267
The Nenenot or ``Naskopie''	267
Principal characteristics	267
Clothing	281
Preparation of the skins for clothing	292
Dwellings	298
Sweat houses	300
Household utensils, etc	300
Tobacco and pipes	302
Means of transportation	304
By water	304
By land	308
Weapons	312
Hunting	316
Miscellaneous implements, tools, etc	317
Amusements	320
Festivals	322
Folklore	327
Story of the wolverine and the brant	327
Story of the wolverine	327
The deer and the squirrel	328
The young man who went to live with the deer	328
The wolf's daughter going to seek her lover	330
The devil punishing a liar	333
A wolverine destroys his sister	333
The rabbit and the frog	334
The wolverine and the rock	336
Creation of people by the wolverine and the muskrat	338
Origin of the whitish spot on the throat of the marten	338
The Indian and his beaver wife	339
The venturesome hare	340
The spirit guiding a child left by its parents	342
Fate of two Indian men	343
The starving wolverine	345
The starving Indians	349