[117] G.H. von Langsdorff, Reise um die Welt (Frankfort, 1812), ii. 114 sq.; H.J.  Holmberg, “Ethnographische Skizzen ueber die Voelker des Russischen Amerika,” Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae, iv.  (Helsingfors, 1856) pp. 319 sq.; T. de Pauly, Description Ethnographique des Peuples de la Russie (St. Petersburg, 1862), Peuples de l’Amerique Russe, p. 13; A. Erman, “Ethnographische Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen an den Kuesten des Berings-Meeres,” Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, ii. (1870) pp. 318 sq.; H.H.  Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States (London, 1875-1876), i. 110 sq.; Rev. Sheldon Jackson, “Alaska and its Inhabitants,” The American Antiquarian, ii. (Chicago, 1879-1880) pp. 111 sq.; A. Woldt, Captain Jacobsen’s Reise an der Nordwestkiiste Americas, 1881-1883 (Leipsic, 1884), p. 393; Aurel Krause, Die Tlinkit-Indianer (Jena, 1885), pp. 217 sq.; W.M.  Grant, in Journal of American Folk-lore, i. (1888) p. 169; John R. Swanton, “Social Conditions, Beliefs, and Linguistic Relationship of the Tlingit Indians,” Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1908), p. 428.

[118] Franz Boas, in Tenth Report of the Committee on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, p. 45 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Ipswich meeting, 1895).

[119] Franz Boas, in Fifth Report of the Committee on the North-Western Tribes of Canada, p. 42 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting, 1889); id., in Seventh Report, etc., p. 12 (separate reprint from the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Cardiff meeting, 1891).

[120] “Customs of the New Caledonian women belonging to the Nancaushy Tine, or Stuart’s Lake Indians, Natotin Tine, or Babine’s and Nantley Tine, or Fraser Lake Tribes,” from information supplied by Gavin Hamilton, chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s service, who has been for many years among these Indians, both he and his wife speaking their languages fluently (communicated by Dr. John Rae), Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vii. (1878) pp. 206 sq.

[121] Emile Petitot, Traditions Indiennes du Canada Nord-ouest (Paris, 1886), pp. 257 sq.

[122] Fr. Julius Jette, S.J., “On the Superstitions of the Ten’a Indians,” Anthropos, vi. (1911) pp. 700-702.

[123] Compare The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, i. 70 sqq.

[124] James Teit, The Thompson Indians of British Columbia, pp. 311-317 (The Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, April, 1900).  As to the customs observed among these Indians by the father of a girl at such times in order not to lose his luck in hunting, see Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, ii. 268.