Early Norse Visits to North America With Ten Plates
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As already noticed, these people apparently wore no garments worth mentioning, very likely only Nauset grass aprons or a dimin- utive form of breech-clout. They can not then have been Eskimo. 1 Brereton's Briefe Relation, before cited. Old South Leaflets ; and The Bibli- ographer, iQ02, ' : p. *'33. I5O SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 They did not make any visits in the winter, when the Eskimo prefer to journey. They had no sleds, no dogs, no harness, though these promptly attract...ed Frobisher's 1 attention in Labrador, and Davis tells of fighting off the Greenland dogs which the Eskimo set on him. Nansen 2 even lays stress on the use of this method of land transportation, as making against the theory of the development of these Innuit from the Indians ; adding, " In this the Eskimo more resembles the races of the Asiatic polar regions. " It is true that dogs were not uncommon in many Indian villages as pets or sacrifices, or to aid in hunting or serve for food. But these people came to Hop always by water, apparently from some rather distant point south- ward, and on such excursions the dogs would most likely be left behind.
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