Domestic life 410 Marriage 410 Standing and treatment of women 413 Children 414 Rights and wrongs 419 Social life and customs 420 Personal habits and cleanliness 420 Salutation 422 Healing 422 Customs concerning the dead 423 Abstentions 423 Manner of disposing of the dead 424 Government 427 In the family 427 In the village 427 Religion 430 General ideas 430 Amulets 434 ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. PL. I. Map of Northwestern Alaska 2 II. Map of the hunting grounds of the Point Barrow Eskimo 18 FIG. 1. Unalina, a man of Nuwŭk 34 2. Mûmûñina, a woman of Nuwŭk 35 3. Akabiana, a youth of Utkiavwiñ 36 4. Puka, a young man of Utkiavwiñ 37 5. Woman stretching skins 38 6. Pipes: (_a_) pipe with metal bowl; (_b_) pipe with stone bowl; (_c_) pipe with bowl of antler or ivory 67 7. Pipe made of willow stick 68 8. Tobacco pouches 69 9. Plans of Eskimo winter house 72 10. Interior of iglu, looking toward door 73 11. Interior of iglu, looking toward bench 74 12. House in Utkiavwiñ 76 13. Ground plan and section of winter house in Mackenzie region 77 14. Ground plan of large snow house 82 15. Tent on the beach at Utkiavwiñ 85 16. Wooden bucket 86 17. Large tub 87 18. Whalebone dish 88 19. Meat-bowl 89 20. Stone pot 90 21. Small stone pot 91 22. Fragments of pottery 92 23. Stone maul 94 24. Stone maul 94 25.