Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)
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Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350
Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)
Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula -- Folklore; Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula -- Social life and customs; Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula -- Folklore; Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Ungava Peninsula -- Social life and c
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
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