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I)I*. HENRY RINK,
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,.C. A. REITZEL. LOXGMASS, GIIEEX d GO'S.
THE ESIiIlIO TRIBES.
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IJI-. HENRY RINK,
LATL I)IIIECT(~It OF TIIE I~ilYAl. ~.lIEESl.ASIB~O ARI) OI' TIIAIIE. I
Ablj FOI~SIEI1I.Y ILOTAL ISSPECTOR OF SO[-TI1 (.I~EE?iLASI).
AI TIIOR OF TALES ASll TRAD1T:OXS OF TIK ESKIMO*. *IIASISI~( ;IIEESLASI)*. EfC.
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1. YOL. SI 01: THE 3Iecidelt~lser otn Cironlilnd
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EDITI<DB Y THE COJIY ISSIOS FOI: DIKECTISB THE GEOLOGICAL
ASD GEOORAPHICAL I.:SYLOR.ITIOSS IS C;KEESL.4SD.-l
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C. & REITZEL. LONGMANS, OREE N k Coy*.
BlASCO LCSO, (F. UREPEII), PRISTEII TO THE RISC.
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Tlra purpose of tile. first srpliot~o f this booti is to 51row
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wltat cotlclusions il9is yo&siblc to draw fro111 Ilte alodc o! iifc,
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tho customs and. usi~~eo?f: the I.:skinio, so far as regards tlre
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migrations'b~\\1 1iblr Lhcy have spread over tbt?ir presenl territory.
Ihrt it is not intended to go farther I~ackI llan LIrt! comnencc-
merlt of this dispersiot~. Especially do our concli~sions riot
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iniply iL decided opinion on the qui:stiolr so freq~lenllyc liscusscd,
\vhelher tlte crodlc of tile hce \\.as irt Arncrica or io Asin. .-it
the same lime, I~owever,i t attacltes ri greatrr importi~~rclto! tl~e
Net\.., titan to tlre Old \\-orhi as ii frlclbr in \\tiat lnrtst bt!
corrsidered tlte ancient lristory of tile 1;skirno. lir order to trac~!
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out their origin, the principal source of kno~\.ledpew ill most
likely Irave to IN! linally sotlgl~ft or in their language and traditions.
Ss to language, - vocabuli~ric!~w ill l ~ r!eq niretl , slrowina Ilow
the same idea is expressed tllrougllont 1l1e diffcrent dialects,
according to the syste~ln~rl w adopted by the American nulllors
on aboriginal linguistics (I'o\vcll: (~Introdoctiont o the slatly of
Indian languages~s). Ilutf it cornpariso~~of this kind callriot
attain its real value, witt~orrl explaining at tlrc? sarne time, Irow
llle compound words lrave originated from their stems or elernenls.
It is the principal.object of tllo present ,work to give i111 idea
of these elements in, tlre Eskimo language, and the admirable
constri~ction.o f words by^ means of them. \\'e shall tlren b e
enabled to esplain' a comparative vocabulary in ii suhsecluent
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volumt: by referring to. the rilles stated in the present one.
'I'bere is some reason to I,elicve lhal 111d time also our
store of Eskimo traditions kill have increased, so that much
litter opportunit~ will tje olfered for weighing their I~i.slorical
value.
'Tllr means requireti for pltblislling ti~is.v olume have' been.
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grilnted thy tlit! Ministry for 1'11blic Educalib~i and Ecclesiastical
Affairs, a~tdi l found naturiit to embody it in the series of
3tEDDELEI.SER 011 GH0SI.ASD. whic.11 since 18i9 have been
issued in (:openhagen and comprise the latest Ilanisli invest-
igations in (ire- But on the other hand, as its theme
can at all t!venls interest only ;i very limiteti circle. of readers,
it 1vi1,c preferred to render this contribution more accessible by
printing it ia EngliJh/.* Assistance tvillr this end .in view being
reqtrisitt?, I applied of collrse to my friend ..Dr. Robert i$ro\vn
who ltad edited 1a.o olher books for me in i:ngland.-.B's.keadily
as ever he complied with my request, to revise that part of
my manuscript which was not merely lexicographical. But for
several reasons some errors in 'English style may notwith-.
standing have crept in, -during the ,completion and printing of
the yagr.s. It is therefore, my hope that these circrimstances
being understood, the writrr may not unreasonatrly claim thc
intlelgence of his- readers.
COSTEXTS.
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THE ESlilJlO TBIBES, THI.:IR COMIIOS ORIGIY, TtIElR DIS-
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PERSIOh ASU 'I'HEIH DIVI<BS1TIES IS GESERAL 1.
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Inventions for procuring the necessary means of subsistence (G)
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D\\ellings (10) Dress and ornaments (12) Uomestic industry
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and arts (IS) Hellgion and folklore (16) Sociology \?I)
Distritr~ttiona nd Division (31).
THE ESlilJIO LA,YGCAGE, ITS ADbIIRAB1.E 0RGANISATIO.Y
AS TO TtIE COXSTHCCTI0.Y AhD FLESIOS OF WORDS . . 35.
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The written language, letters and signs (39) The parts of
speech, the organisation of the language exhibited in its mode of
construitig and infleetifig ~ords(1 6) - Xouns and their flexion
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(40) Particular nouns (52) Verhs and their flexion (53)
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Particles (60) Syntax (61) Constr-uc tion of words by means
of the dependent stems or affixes (63) List of affixes, with ex-
amples of their use (65)
C0311'.4H.4TIVE I.IST OF THE STEM \VORDS OH ISDEI'ESI)E.\T
STEMS OF THE @KIM0 DIAI.WCTS, \YITR ESA3lPI.ES OF
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THE111 DER~VATI&S 77.
Page 9. llne 8, for: c-ot~s~dcr rend : consider
- 11 - 19 - room i -- rooI1t.
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-- 14 - 20 ~~erpendicuiar - and perpendicular
- 20 - 16 - if^ - -
- 26 - 27 - d~sapreableness- - disagreeableness
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- Z'T 26 - bussiness 111isiness
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32 - .30 - abrul -- about
- 33' - 8 -- corccrning -- concerning
- 39 -- 7 -- Trchnhschen -- Tscl~ulischen
- 41 - 32 - nl -
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-- 51 31 - rnerelly
55 - 16 - afi@t --
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58 12 rn finitivc
7- - -- 28 -- te -
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59 -- 23 -- joq - jog
I - 61 - 2 - ipg~uaq - igpb8c14.
- - - 25 -- applited -- applied
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- 63 - 12 - sence
- -- - 15 - enphony - euphony
-- 66 -- 38 - gross - - grass 3
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71 - 16 -- la04 coq
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82 - 30 - -- longtailer longtailed
-- 87 - 36 - umnrqo - anlaroq
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88 - 21 ane - une
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39 - hy - - b) .
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90 -" 9 -- adglkipci -- ccgdZI~1i,ri
- 93 - 40 -- dolhing -- clothing
- 94 - 30 - antdlarpoq - autdlnrpcrq
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95 39 -- avdlangorpoq acdldngotpoq
- 96 -- 11 - interjeclion -- inle rjections
- 99 -- 2 - spiril - spirit)
- 106 5 -- irmpi - i c e
['age 107, line 6, for: yniroqgbz read : yrcirogqin
- 116 - 26 -- I I
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I - 117 - 36 -- kdioigiua - kaliviyim~
-- 130 -- 11 - .sl~ouldcrhladc C-- shouldurbladc
c - - - 1 5 - in ltle - in 11
- - A 33 - lears - tears,
.- 124 - 29 - kunligpd ku11tigpCi
- 126 -- 5 - magperpa - nzclgpapci
- 127 - 22 - -
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i - 133 - 12 - \Vn. -
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-. - IS -- nalerpoq -- tiaterqoq
- 134 - 21 - -
comparred compared
x. - 135 - 9 - pas - push
- 137 -. 17 - barns
1 - 138 - 17 -- orotkroga - brlrns
- orotlxoya
- 140 - 3 ar - as
- 141 -- 32 - handsom - haodsorne,
-- 142 - 4 - the semicolon -
- 144 - 20 - scraiches - asc rc$otlcnhlnesa
- 149 -- 23 - trashing - thrashing
- -152 - 16 -- taypTpoq - tagp Tpo y
I -- 115543 --- 3242 -- triefiipnos q -- triekiinpso q= .
- 156 - 34 - td-agfcijciq - tdagfdjciq
- 159 - 28 - a baid -- as bail
": l'age 8, 21, 101, 123 and 138, for: direclely --- Lahrodor -
practices, read: direclry -- Labrador'- practises.
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THE ESKIMO
TRIBES, THEIR COMION ORIGIN, THEIR
DISPERSION. BND THEIR DIVERSITIES IN GENERAL.
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As Bering Strait has so frequenlly been made use of in
order to explain how America could receive its original inhabit-
ants from Asia, and as the American side of this sound does
not show any trace of having been inhabited by other people
than the Eskimo, this race seems to deserve particular attention
with regard to all questions touching the drehistoric population
of America. If their kinship to other nations has to be jpdged
from their customs and manner of life, they seem to form a
natural continuation of their Indian neighbours on the western
coast of America. It has been assumed, that the latter abori-
gines have come from the interior of the continent following
the river courses unto the sea. The same may as well be
suggested with regard to the Eskimo, only with the addition,
that having reached the ocean they spread along the coasts to
the uorth and the east as far as the same natural conditions
and the lack of opposition by earlier inhabitants admitted,
occupying in this way regions of enormous extent. In proposing
this hypothesis we may leave wholly out of consideration the
question, whether in a still earlier period the ancestors of both
the Indians and the Eskimo migrated from Asia or not. But
certainly we will have still to examine another hypothesis which,
if even less probable, can not be rejected on the plea that it
infers an impossibility, namely that the Eskimo came across
Bering Strait, proceeded to the east and the south where then
they met with the lndians and in settling finally adopted some
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