Boas, Franz - The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay (1901)

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Boas, Franz - The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay (1901)

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Author: Boas, Franz

Title: The Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay: from Notes Collected by George Comer, James S. Mutch, and E. J. Peck

Year: 1901

Publisher: New York: Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History.  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 15, article 1.

Pages: 370

Source: American Museum of Natural History

Related: "Second Report on the Eskimo of Baffin Land" (1907).

Description: A research report examining the material culture collection and ethnographic notes of Captain George Comer, Captain James S. Mutch, Rev. E. J. Peck, and C. F. Hall (1885-1899); and translations of texts and notes by Franz Boas in Cumberland Sound (1883-84).  "The preceding description of the Eskimo of Cumberland Sound and of the western coast of Hudson Bay shows that the arts, customs, and beliefs of these tribes are very much alike. They not only bear all the important characteristics of Eskimo life, but are also much more nearly allied to each other than they are to the arts and customs of the Eskimo of
Greenland and of Alaska. The opinion which I expressed elsewhere - namely, that the Eskimo between King William Land, Smith Sound, and Labrador, may be considered as one of the main subdivisions of this people-seems to be well borne out by the new facts here presented" (1901:357).

 
 
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