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Identifier: sporttravelinnor00hanb (find matches)
Title: Sport and travel in the northland of Canada
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hanbury, David T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Inuit language
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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eat dance in honour of the occasion. Here I may set down a few remarks about Huskyfashions and Husky legends, jotted down at different times.Most of the grown-up Hudson Bay women are tattooedon the face, a thick paste of charcoal and water beingrubbed in after the application of a needle. The mostpopular ornament among them is a brass band, abouthalf or three-quarters of an inch in width, placed acrossthe forehead and extending behind the ears. The materialfor these is no doubt obtained from empty cartridge-casesand other pieces of metal given by the whaling crews.Other ornamental appendages are cylindrical pieces ofwood, about sixteen inches in length, which, covered withbeaded cloth, hang from the ends of their tresses, andend in a tassel or tuft of false hair. The men are almostas fond of beads as the women, and a long-tailed deerskincoat covered with beads excites admiration and envy.White beads were in fashion at the time of my visit, butpossibly Husky fashions change as ours do.
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Tattooed Face of Eskimo Woman. LIFE IN AN ESKIMO CAMP 67 The deerskins for their fancy garments are first clearedof the hair and then made soft, pliable, and beautifullywhite by being scraped with a blunt instrument. I havenever seen Huskies rub skins with brain or liver as theIndians do, and they never put them through the processof smoking. This process, the Indians assert, keeps thehide from becoming hard after being wet, but I couldnever detect any difference between an unsmoked skinand one that had gone through the orthodox process. A few finger-rings are worn, but as these have beensupplied direct by the whalers, they are of no interest.The principal toys of the children are models of men andwomen, and of dogs, kyaks, pipes, lamps, kettles, &c. In smoking, the Huskies are very careful of theirtobacco, mixing it with the leaf of the cranberry vine.The mixture makes rather pleasant smoking, but is nosaving on tobacco. The bowls of their pipes are ofstone; the stems consist of

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