Volume 8, 1955 - The Arctic Circle - Home

VOL. VIII NC. ITHE .t>.RCTlC CIRCliL.t>.R16National Museum, Department of Northern affairs and National ResourcesFirth River valley (archaeologicalreconnaissance)Southampton Island (archaeology,joint party with SmithsonianInstitution)Isachsen (natural history study andcollecting): R.S. MacNeishH.B. Collins, W.E. TaylorS. MacDonaldNational Research Council.t>.klavik (survey of new sites)H.M.C.S. Labrador (cosmic rays)J.S. Pihlainen, G.H. Johnston,R.J.E. Brown: D.C. RoseRevised ";;skimo GrammarIn 1883 the Rev. E.J. I'eck, Church of idlgland missionaryat Little Whale River on the east coast of Hudson Bay, produced themanuscript of an Eskimo grammar. In part this was an adaptationof the earlier works of the Moravian Brethren on the Coast ofLabrador and Kleinschmidt's graaunar'of the Greenlandic language.This manullcript was ~d reprinted by the GeographicBoard of Canada in 1919, the Cou.ncil of the Northwest Territories in1931, and by the Diocene of the Arctic (Church of England in Canada)in 1943.reviAecl. and enlarged·edition prepared by the Rev. MauriceAS. Flint was printed in 1954. There.have been several outstandingadditions .to the .earlier editions. A history and explanation of thesyllabic characters io now included and "'f even greater value, forthe present at l~ast,is the translation of ;Ill Eskimo words into theirsyllabic equiva1ents. A vocabUlary of.flome 300 common words has beenadded and follqws the cection on granunihl... deserva-J:h..-thanks of allwho will have_occasion_.to·uae it.