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Note 180 — Chapter II · TABOOED DAYS AFTER A DEATH AND ON RELATED OCCASIONS

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F. Boas, in Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 427, 613 sq.; compare idem, “Die Sagen der Baffin-Land Eskimos,” Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie, und Urgeschichte, 1885, p. (164) (bound with Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, vol. xvii). These Eskimo observe like restrictions after the capture of whales, seals, and walruses, which form their principal food supply.

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