The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum : Preliminary Ethnological Report 14
The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum : Preliminary Ethnological Report 14
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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When a child's atka gets farther from it than a fathom or so the child will Digitized by VjOOQIC 364 Anthropological Papers American Museum oj Natural History, [Vol. XIV, begin to cry and will not cease till the atka returns. Sometimes a shaman- istic performance is resorted to, to get the atka to return. There seem to be no charms for this purpose which the mother or relatives can use; a shaman must always be called in. As the child attains age it becomes less and less unsafe to scold or repri...mand it, for the atka gets less sensitive and less apt to take hard words, etc., as a personal affront. Besides the above and other "practical" reasons for naming a child, there is also the further practical reason that a man whose father was A will consider the child A ^ as an embodiment of his father and will treat it accord- ingly, will make it gifts and do for it other things prompted by his filial feel- ings as well as by the dictates of custom. He will address the child as "father" instead of by such terms as "nephew," etc., used by other relatives.
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