Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory / Lucien M. Turner ; introduction by Stephen Loring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naskapi Indians--Quebec (Province)--Ungava Bay Region--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Especially notable for Lucien Turner's descriptions of nineteenth-century Native material culture, Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory was originally published in 1894 as part of the Smithsonian's Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology series - publications that are often considered to mark the beginning of American anthropological studies.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Fort Chimo and the surrounding region""; ""Climate""; ""Auroras""; ""Vegetation""; ""Animal life""; ""Mammals""; ""Birds""; ""The native inhabitants of the country�general sketch""; ""The Eskimo""; ""The Indians""; ""Special account of the people around Fort Chimo""; ""The Koksoagmyut""; ""Physical characteristics""; ""Diseases""; ""Marriage""; ""Children""; ""Burial customs""; ""Religion""; ""Outdoor life""; ""Tattooing""; ""Clothing""; ""Dwellings""; ""Household articles""; ""Food and its preparation""; ""Tobacco and snuff""; ""Means of transportation""

""Weapons and other hunting implements""""Hunting""; ""Miscellaneous implements""; ""Amusements""; ""Art""; ""Story-telling and folklore""; ""The Nenenot or ""Naskopie""""; ""Principal characteristics""; ""Clothing""; ""Preparation of the skins for clothing""; ""Dwellings""; ""Sweat houses""; ""Household utensils, etc""; ""Tobacco and pipes""; ""Means of transportation""; ""Weapons""; ""Hunting""; ""Miscellaneous implements, tools, etc""; ""Amusements""; ""Festivals""; ""Folklore""

Notes:

Originally published in 1894 as part of the Eleventh Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890.

Co-published by the Smithsonian Institution Press.

ISBN:

0-7735-6973-1