The Eskimo

Abstract

SPECIAL interest attaches to a paper on “The East Green landers in their relations to the other Eskimo Tribes,” contributed by Dr. H. Rink to the current number of the Deutsche Geographische Blätter (Bremen, 1886). Hitherto these hyperboreans have been studied by independent observers, chiefly in Alaska at the eastern, and in Greenland and Labrador at the western extremity of their domain, while through lack of sufficient materials the intermediate branches thinly scattered round the Arctic shores from the Mackenzie to Baffin Bay have been mostly neglected. Here, however, we have for the first time a comprehensive ethnological survey of the whole field by perhaps the greatest living authority on the subject, based on the rich collections recently brought to Europe by Capt. Holm from East Greenland, by the brothers Krause and A. Jakobsen from Alaska, and by F. Boas from the central region of Baffin Land.