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Description:Excerpt from The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, March, 1919 After one of the famines, acompanied by a plague in which most of the tribe died, the survivors lost the art of making the kayak, or skin boat, for summer hunting. Consequently, throughout the open season, after the ice had gone out, they were unable to kill any sea-food, and since at the same time caribou formed no part in their cuisine, they had to depend entirely upon the millions of birds that frequented the cliffs and islands of the coast. Before the ice went out of the Fjords all the Eskimos repaired to the cliffs of the great bird rookeries, where they could obtain all the birds they needed for food, and stayed there until the ice froze again and permitted the killing of seal and other sea game. This period of dependence upon birds for sustenance for at least two months of each year ended with the immigration of a small band of Eskimos from Baffin Land, who revived the lost arts of kayak-building and caribou-hunting, - a remarkably good example of the influence that an immigrant people may have upon the life of the people among whom they come. Water-birds form the greater part of the bird-food of the Eskimos; of the laud-birds only the ptarmigan plays an important role. All the small land- and shore-birds, the raven and the falcon are eaten, but they comprise no essential part of the Eskimos' dietary as do the ptarmigan and the water birds. Even the ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris reinhardi) is not so very important a food-bird, and except in the fall, when it is migrating southward in great numbers, the Eskimos rarely hunt for it particularly. Generally they kill it only when they happen to find it near the shore, as they sledge from one place to another, when they are hunting hare or caribou, or when they are attending their haresnares or fox-traps. When the ptarmigan is migrating southward, and numerous flocks stop to feed on the heather slopes of the high rocky shores, the Eskimos often consider it worth their time and effort to hunt them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, March, 1919 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, March, 1919 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, March, 1919 After one of the famines, acompanied by a plague in which most of the tribe died, the survivors lost the art of making the kayak, or skin boat, for summer hunting. Consequently, throughout the open season, after the ice had gone out, they were unable to kill any sea-food, and since at the same time caribou formed no part in their cuisine, they had to depend entirely upon the millions of birds that frequented the cliffs and islands of the coast. Before the ice went out of the Fjords all the Eskimos repaired to the cliffs of the great bird rookeries, where they could obtain all the birds they needed for food, and stayed there until the ice froze again and permitted the killing of seal and other sea game. This period of dependence upon birds for sustenance for at least two months of each year ended with the immigration of a small band of Eskimos from Baffin Land, who revived the lost arts of kayak-building and caribou-hunting, - a remarkably good example of the influence that an immigrant people may have upon the life of the people among whom they come. Water-birds form the greater part of the bird-food of the Eskimos; of the laud-birds only the ptarmigan plays an important role. All the small land- and shore-birds, the raven and the falcon are eaten, but they comprise no essential part of the Eskimos' dietary as do the ptarmigan and the water birds. Even the ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris reinhardi) is not so very important a food-bird, and except in the fall, when it is migrating southward in great numbers, the Eskimos rarely hunt for it particularly. Generally they kill it only when they happen to find it near the shore, as they sledge from one place to another, when they are hunting hare or caribou, or when they are attending their haresnares or fox-traps. When the ptarmigan is migrating southward, and numerous flocks stop to feed on the heather slopes of the high rocky shores, the Eskimos often consider it worth their time and effort to hunt them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, March, 1919 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 31: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, March, 1919 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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