Includes citations for language and dialects from Labrador to Aleutian Islands including Aleut and Kodiak; some reference to vocabulary and dictionaries available prior to 1887.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
The Sia by Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory by Lucien M. Turner
A Study of Siouan Cults by James Owen Dorsey
This book contains photographs of people and places in the Canadian Far North, taken while Mathers was "on a trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River". There are a number of images of "Esquimaux" wearing traditional clothing and stone lip ornaments, as well as of Native people carrying out tasks at various forts along the Athabasca and Slave Rivers.
Based on Horden's journals and correspondence with author-editor Beatric Batty, originally published in 1893, includes Victorian perspective on Moosonee and Whale River.
Preliminary Notes on the Indians of British Columbia
Report on the Sarcee Indians
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Author/Creator
Franz Boas
[Edward Francis Wilson]
Description
Committee appointed to research and report on "physical characters, languages, and industrial and social condition of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada; includes some commentary on the Sarcee peoples, and Inuit.
"With the results of a long intercourse with the Innuits, and full description of their mode of life, the discovery of actual relics of the expedition of Martin Frobisher of three centuries ago, and deductions in favour of yet discovering some of the survivors of Sir John Franklin's expedition".
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch
The Medicine-Men of the Apache by John G. Bourke
A compilation of essays by : Deborah Lee, Liam Haggarty, Brendan Edwards, Tamara Starblanket, Camie Augustus, Kurt Boyer, Anna Flamino, Merle Massie, Yvonne Vizina, Patricia Deiter, Meagan Gough, and Alan Long.
This book describes Petitot's explorations of the Mackenzie and Anderson Rivers and the western branch of the Yukon River. It also provides an account of Petitot's travels to the various forts such as Fort MacPerson and his encounters with protestant missionaries who tried to dissuade him from preaching in their territory.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia by William H. Holmes
A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament by William H. Holmes
Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices by Cyrus Thomas
Osage Traditions by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey
The Central Eskimo by Dr. Franz Boas