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The Karluk had disappeared. Whether the vessel had freed itself
from the ice and steamed eastward, or whether, still imprisoned, it
had been carried by the ice westward, we could not know. In any
case it was gone, leaving our hunting party of six men marooned on
a sandy islet surrounded by thin ice and open water. The wind
finally died away, in the calm air the water rapidly froze over
again, and on September 30 we crossed with our two sleds to the
mainland.
In 1913 a young ethnologist from New Zealand boarded a ship for the
Arctic, beginning a personal journey that was to make Diamond
Jenness one of the twentieth century's foremost authorities on
Alaskan Eskimos. Jenness had been asked to join the Stefansson
expedition, and his official duties were to collect ethnographic
details on the Eskimos--their culture, technology, religion, and
social organization. His account of the expedition was published as
People of the Twilight in 1928, but Jenness also kept a diary of
his three years among the Eskimos. He was eventually persuaded to
publish it as Dawn in Arctic Alaska.
Predating the genre of personal ethnographies that has become so
popular and important today, Jenness's tales blend his keen
observations of the Arctic and its people with his own reflections
and sensory experiences. He expresses great adimiration for the
customs and character of the Eskimos and great regret and
disappointment over the destruction of their lifeway through
contact with white men.
First published in 1932, "The Indians of Canada" remains the
most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one
includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food
resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings,
travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political
organization, social life, religion, folklore and traditions, and
drama, music, and art. The second part of the book describes the
tribes in different groupings: the migratory tribbes of the eastern
woodlands, the plains tribes, tribes of the Pacific coast, of the
Cordillera, and the Mackenzie and Yukon River basins, and finally
the Eskimo.
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