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Box 1

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

September, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Contains information on the arrival of Charles and Jane Hughes in Alaska, a history of Gambell since 1940, an account of a walrus hunt, and the organization of the village store.
Dates: 1954

October, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Eskimo interviews on worship rituals, marriage practices, and suicide.
Dates: 1954

November, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents An account of a seal hunt and diagrams depicting the Eskimo kinship system.
Dates: 1954

December, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents The management of the village store by the Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Organization, Eskimo interviews on cousin teasing, preparation of animal skins, suicide, punishment for murder, and diagrams of a walrus trap, sled, and boat.
Dates: 1954

January, 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents An account of a walrus hunt, Eskimo interviews on rules concerning marriage into other "ramkas" (clans), kinship terms, and how to harpoon a walrus.
Dates: 1955

February, 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6-7
Scope and Contents An account of a fox trapping trip to the Southwest cape, the starvation of the island's sled dogs, and Eskimo interviews concerning witchcraft, kinship terminology, time periods, and natural features.
Dates: 1955

March, 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents List of research questions, Eskimos living outside of Gambell, and kinship terminology.
Dates: 1955

April, 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9-10
Scope and Contents Contains a list of teachers at Gambell since 1940, excerpt from a letter from a zoologist regarding the decline of the walrus and reindeer herds, an account of a walrus hunt, a list of kinship terminology, and Eskimo interviews on shamanism, ramkas, the ritual of naming babies, kinship behavior, life stories, ceremonies, marriage, and traditional whale hunting techniques.
Dates: 1955

May, 1955

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents Kinship charts, an account of Gambell's first whale catch in two years, and Eskimo interviews on kinship behavior and life stories.
Dates: 1955