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REPORT OF CDN ARCTIC EXPEDITION 1913-18, VOL XIV ESKIMO SONGS - $55 (Jarvis Street & Front Street E., Toronto, Ontario)
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Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface & Introduction By D. Jenness
Section 1. Music of Songs. By Helen H. Roberts
Explanation of signs used in the music itself
Explanation of signs used in the musical analyses
Chapter 1. Copper Eskimo Dance Songs
The Pisik
Sub-group 1. Without Prelude
Sub-group 2. Syllabic but not musical Preludes
Sub-group 3. Prelude Effect
Sub-group 4. Real Preludes
Sub-group 5. Irregular Types
More or less Formless
Forms different from the Pisik
The Aton
Undifferentiated Dance Songs
Weather Incantations
Chapter 2. Dance Songs From Surrounding Regions
Mackenzie River Dance Songs
Inland Hudson Bay Dance Songs
Songs from Point Hope, Alaska
Chapter 3. Scales or Tone Preferences
Chapter 4. Different Versions of the Same Song and Instances of Melodic Borrowing
Section 2. Texts and Translations. By D. Jenness
Copper Eskimo Dance Songs
Pisiks
Atons
Undifferentiated Dance Songs
Weather Incantations
Dance Songs From Surrounding Regions
Mackenzie River Dance Songs
Island Hudson Bay Dance Songs
Songs from Point Hope, Alaska
Errata
Diamond Jenness, CC FRCGS (1886-1969) was one of Canada's greatest early scientists and a pioneer of Canadian anthropology. In 1913, Jenness was invited to join the government-funded Canadian Arctic Expedition (CAE) that was led by two Arctic explorers – Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) & R.M. Anderson (1876-1961). Separated from the exploring party, Jenness spent the first winter at Harrison Bay, Alaska, where he learned how to speak the Northern Inuit language, compiling information about their customs and folklore in 1913. The next year, in 1914, assisted by interpreter Patsy Klengenberg (1900-1946), Jenness commenced studying the Copper Inuit / Blond Eskimos, in the Coronation Gulf area. This group had very little contact with Europeans. Jenness spent two years with the Copper Inuit and lived as an adopted son of a hunter named Ikpukhuak and his shaman wife Higalik. Diamond Jenness stated: “his goal was to understand the Copper Inuit on their own terms, not in relation to some preconceived 'ladder of creation' with Europeans perched firmly at the top.”
Today the Copper Inuit are known by their native names, Inuinnait and Kitlinermiut. This Canadian Inuit group live in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories. Most of them historically lived in the area around Coronation Gulf, on Victoria Island, and southern Banks Island.
Helen Heffron Roberts (1888-1985) was an American anthropologist and pioneer ethnomusicologist. Her musical transcription and analysis of Jenness's phonograph records, when she was at Columbia University, and Jenness's word translations make up this extraordinary work.
Select Citation: Obituary: 'F.A. Acland Former King's Printer Dies', Frederick Albert Acland, Former deputy minister of Labor, 1908 to 1923, and later King's Printer, 1923 to 1935, died at his home in his 90th year, pg. 6, Sept. 4, 1950, The Ottawa Citizen.
Provenance: ex Museum London Collection, London, Ontario.
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