Eskimo Life

by Fridtjof Nansen

A HUNTER, HIS WIFE, AND A YOUNG GIRL (WEST COAST OF GREENLAND)

ESKIMO LIFE

 

BY

FRIDTJOF NANSEN

AUTHOR OF 'THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND'

 

TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM ARCHER

 

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

 

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1893

All rights reserved

CONTENTS.

CHAP.		PAGE
	TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE	V
	AUTHOR'S PREFACE	VII
I.	GREENLAND AND THE ESKIMO	1
II.	APPEARANCE AND DRESS	18
III.	THE 'KAIAK' AND ITS APPURTENANCES	30
IV.	THE ESKIMO AT SEA	56
V.	WINTER-HOUSES, TENTS, WOMAN-BOATS, AND EXCURSIONS	78
VI.	COOKERY AND DAINTIES	89
VII.	CHARACTER AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS	100
VIII.	THE POSITION AND WORK OF WOMEN	121
IX.	LOVE AND MARRIAGE	138
X.	MORALS	157
XI.	JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS—DRUM-DANCES AND ENTERTAINMENTS	186
XII.	MENTAL GIFTS—ART—MUSIC—POETRY—ESKIMO NARRATIVES	193
XIII.	RELIGIOUS IDEAS	209
XIV.	THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY	301
XV.	EUROPEANS AND NATIVES	313
XVI.	WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED?	327
XVII.	CONCLUSION	341

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THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND

With numerous Illustrations and a Map

Cheap Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

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London: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
and NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATES.
A Hunter, his Wife, and a Young Girl (West Coast of Greenland)	Frontispiece
'The Boundless Snow-Fields stretching Calm and White from Sea to Sea'	to face	page	2
Covering a Kaiak	„	„	32
'The Head turned Half Backwards to watch the Seas'	„	„	58
Seaward in Search of Seals	„	„	60
Seal-hunting	„	„	62
Before the Wind	„	„	66
A Kaiak-Man rescuing a Comrade	„	„	68
A Kaiak-Man attacked by a Walrus	„	„	74
Halibut-Fishing	„	„	76
An Eskimo Camp	„	„	84
A Summer Journey	„	„	86
Fishing	„	„	114
A Greenland Dance	„	„	190
A Fiord Landscape on the East Coast (at Tingmiarmiut)	„	„	328
Northern Lights—'The Dead at Play'	„	„	348
WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT.
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Greenland Indoor Dress (East Coast)—(1) Male Costume; (2) Female Costume			26
Bladder-dart			34
Harpoon			36
The Head of the Harpoon			37
Lance			39
Throwing-stick with Bird-dart			40
The Bird-dart Thrown			42
Throwing-stick with Harpoon			43
Kaiak, seen from above			44
Kaiak-frame			44
Section of the Kaiak			47
Paddle			49
Half-Jacket			50
Whole-Jacket			50
Eskimo Venus and Apollo			199

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