Anthropos: Anthropos, 2.1907

Anthropos, 2.1907

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Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

Persistent identifier:: BV041701500

Title:: Anthropos

Other Titles:: Anthropos

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-709447

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Persistent identifier:: DE-11-001852164

Title:: Anthropos, 2.1907

Year of Publication:: 1907

Call Number:: LA 1118-2

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

The Great Déné Race. By the Rev. Father A. G. Morice, O. M. I., Missionary in British Columbia, Canada. (Continuation). Chapter VIII. Economic Conditions. General Condition of the Northern Dénés. “Life among the Indians is a constant struggle with nature, wrestling with hunger, cold and fatigue; the victory is ever uncertain, and always hard-earned 1 .” Nothing could be truer than these words of W. H. Dali's; and of all the native tribes none are less sure of their daily subsistence than the northern Dénés. It might be said that, hard and painfully laborious as is the life of the Eskimo, owing to the climatic conditions of his habitat, his food resources are less uncertain, because he has at his disposal the large mammals and other denizens of the sea, in addition to the land game and the fresh water fish. As to the northern Déné, practically all his personal economic needs are supplied by the animal kingdom such as is established on land. The flesh of the game he kills is his food, its hide his raiment, its fur the main ob ject of his trade, its dressed skin the material of his carrying implements, and of the strings with which he weaves the trellis work of his snow-shoes and which, singly or twisted together, form the snares on which he depends mostly for his subsistence. Its bones and antlers, in their turn, furnish him with the materia prima not only of his cutting tools, such as scrapers to clean the hides or scrape off the sap of pines, which he relishes as an item of diet, and awls to sew his clothing and the bark of his canoe, but also of his arrow points, of his darts or harpoons which serve to procure new meat supplies together with the bow, whose strings are neatly made of twisted tendon strands of the same animal. The inroads of our civiliz ation on his economics have somewhat modified his condition by making him share in the results of our own industries; but he has remained what he was for ages immemorial, namely a strictly carnivorous being, who lives almost entirely on the results of the chase though some of the western tribes are as great fishermen as hunters. i “Travels oil the Yukon”, p. 200. Anthropos II. 1907. ,

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