Point Hope, an Eskimo village in transition |
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Contents
Introduction C | 3 |
The Setting | 7 |
Historical Background | 17 |
Copyright | |
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aboriginal adult Alaska Arctic Arctic Ocean baleen beach bearded seals belugas Bering Strait blubber bowhead whales boys Bureau of Indian camp Cape Cape Lisburne Cape Thompson caribou ceremonial house child Christmas clothes considerable crew members culture dance darting gun dog teams early equipment Eskimo Fairbanks fish Formerly girls Hopers hunters Indian Affairs individuals killed Kivalina Kobuk River Kotzebue Kukpuk River large number living married meat mission missionary mother Noatak occasionally older Panniluke parents parish hall parka particularly peninsula person Point Barrow Point Hope Point Hope spit Qagmaktoq Rainey receive relatives rifle seal hunting share shore skin boat social structure spring whaling feast subsistence activities successful summer employment teachers tion trade trip tuberculosis U.S. Census Bureau Ungasiksikaq usually village village council village store visiting walrus whaling season wife winter women young
Bibliographic information
| Title | Point Hope, an Eskimo village in transition Volume 35 of Publications of the American Ethnological Society |
| Author | James W. VanStone |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 16, 2008 |
| Length | 177 pages |
| Subjects | Eskimos Native Village of Kwinhagak Native Village of Point Hope |
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