CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 409 Authorities quoted 410 Orthography 413 Geography of Northeastern America 414 Distribution of the tribes 419 General observations 419 Baffin Land 421 The Sikosuilarmiut 421 The Akuliarmiut 421 The Qaumauangmiut 421 The Nugumiut 422 The Oqomiut 424 The Padlimiut and the Akudnirmiut 440 The Aggomiut 442 The Iglulirmiut 444 The Pilingmiut 444 The Sagdlirmiut 444 Western shore of Hudson Bay 444 The Aivillirmiut 445 The Kinipetu or Agutit 450 The Sagdlirmiut of Southampton Island 451 The Sinimiut 451 Boothia Felix and Back River 452 The Netchillirmiut 452 The Ugjulirmiut 458 The Ukusiksalirmiut 458 Smith Sound 459 The natives of Ellesmere Land 459 The North Greenlanders 460 Influence of geographical conditions upon the distribution of the settlements | 460 |
| Trade and intercourse between the tribes | 462 |
| List of the Central Eskimo tribes | 470 |
| Hunting and fishing | 471 |
| Seal, walrus, and whale hunting | 471 |
| Deer, musk ox, and bear hunting | 501 |
| Hunting of small game | 510 |
| Fishing | 513 |
| Manufactures | 516 |
| Making leather and preparing skins | 516 |
| Sundry implements | 523 |
| Transportation by boats and sledges | 527 |
| The boat | 527 |
| The sledge and dogs | 529 |
| Habitations and dress | 539 |
| The house | 539 |
| Clothing, dressing of the hair, and tattooing | 554 |
| Social and religious life | 561 |
| Domestic occupations and amusements | 561 |
| Visiting | 574 |
| Social customs in summer | 576 |
| Social order and laws | 578 |
| Religious ideas and the angakunirn (priesthood) | 583 |
| Sedna and the fulmar | 583 |
| The tornait and the angakut | 591 |
| The flight to the moon | 598 |
| Kadlu the thunderer | 600 |
| Feasts, religious and secular | 600 |
| Customs and regulations concerning birth, sickness, and death | 609 |
| Tales and traditions | 615 |
| Ititaujang | 615 |
| The emigration of the Sagdlirmiut | 618 |
| Kalopaling | 620 |
| The Uissuit | 621 |
| Kiviung | 621 |
| Origin of the narwhal | 625 |
| The visitor | 627 |
| The fugitive women | 628 |
| Qaudjaqdjuq | 628 |
| I. Story of the three brothers | 628 |
| II. Qaudjaqdjuq | 630 |
| Igimarasugdjuqdjuaq the cannibal | 633 |
| The Tornit | 634 |
| The woman and the spirit of the singing house | 636 |
| The constellation Udleqdjun | 636 |
| Origin of the Adlet and of the Qadlunait | 637 |
| The great flood | 637 |
| Inugpaqdjuqdjualung | 638 |
| The bear story | 638 |
| Sundry tales | 639 |
| The owl and the raven | 641 |
| Comparison between Baffin Land traditions and those of other tribes | 641 |
| Science and the arts | 643 |
| Geography and navigation | 643 |
| Poetry and music | 648 |
| Merrymaking among the Tornit | 649 |
| The lemming’s song | 649 |
| Arlum pissinga (the killer’s song) | 650 |
| I. Summer song | 653 |
| II. The returning hunter | 653 |
| III. Song of the Tornit | 653 |
| IV. Song of the Inuit traveling to Nettilling | 653 |
| V. O?aitoq’s song | 654 |
| VI. Utitiaq’s song | 654 |
| VII. Song | 654 |
| VIII. Song | 654 |
| IX. Song of the Tornit | 654 |
| X. The fox and the woman | 655 |
| XI. The raven’s song | 655 |
| XII. Song of a Padlimio | 655 |
| XIII. Ititaujang’s song | 655 |
| XIV. Playing at ball | 656 |
| XV. Playing at ball | 657 |
| XVI-XIX. Extracts | 657–658 |
| Glossary | 659 |
| Eskimo words used, with derivations and significations | 659 |
| Eskimo geographical names used, with English significations | 662 |
| Appendix | 667 |
