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The report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, is planned to include at least sixteen volumes. This, the ethnographical volume, is the work of Mr. D. Jenness, a graduate of the University of New Zealand, who received his anthropological training at Oxford, and is already known as the author of an important book entitled "The Northern D'Entrecasteaux."Mr. Jenness lived for some years in the tents and snow-houses of the Eskimo, and though he says little of his personal difficulties, the companionship of his Eskimo hosts and their strange food must have been a trying experience. With the help of a devoted missionary, the Rev. H. Girling, who unfortunately died of pneumonia at Ottawa in 1920, he has been able to prepare a singularly valuable account of life in all its phases among the Copper Eskimos, whose headquarters are on the Coppermine River. Fortunately for them, this land lies in the track of the Great Caribou migration when the herds move northward in the spring. They are then able to collect stores of meat and skins, and from this and the seals and fish, which are abundant, their wants are supplied. Formerly their hunting Was done with bows and arrows, but these are now replaced by rifles, and it would be well for the Canadian Government to consider whether the use of improved weapons should not be controlled in the interests of game preservation.
Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–18. Vol. xii.: The Life of the Copper Eskimos.
By D. Jenness. (Southern Party, 1913–16.) Pp. 277. (Ottawa: Department of the Naval Service, 1922.) 50 cents.
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Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–18 Vol xii: The Life of the Copper Eskimos. Nature 110, 245 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110245b0
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