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Title Eskimo Life
Author Fridtjof Nansen, illustrations by Otto Sinding
Translator William Archer
Year 1893
Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co.
Location London
Source djvu
Progress Done—All pages of the work proper are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded
Validated in June 2012
The original in Norwegian was published in 1891, as was the Swedish translation. Illustrations are the same in all three editions, they are found in commons:Category:Eskimo Life by Nansen.

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