Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, Les masques de Boas: Franz Boas et l'ethnographie des Inuit

Une édition électronique réalisée à partir de l'article de Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, “Les masques de Boas: Franz Boas et l'ethnographie des Inuit.” Un article publié dans la revue ÉTUDES/INUIT/STUDIES, vol. 8, no 1, 1984, pp. 165-179. Québec: Département d'anthropologie de l'Université Laval. [Autorisation formelle accordée conjointement par l’auteur et la directrice de la revue Etudes Inuit/Studies le 5 mai 2008.]

Figure 4. Lettre adressée par le Capitaine Comer à Franz Boas annonçant la disparition des Inuit de l'île Southampton, les Sadlirmiut. (Courtoisie de l'Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist. Dept. of Anthr.)

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Schooner Era

September 10 1904

Repulse Bay

Dr. Franz Boas Dear Sir

It is with regret that I have to tell you that the Southampton natives have all died off having been forced to starvation by the Scotch whaling station having taken so many out side natives there to whale it for them that they fairly overrun the Island and with modern guns and everything to do with the Southampton natives (illegible) and all died by the spring of 1903 then as the station had also seiced (sic) to be a paying one it was abandoned so that now the Island is uninhabited.

I have made a number of phonographic Kecords and also casts of the natives and am collecting everything I can lay hands on. So far we have not been successfull in whaling but still hope we have still an other year to work

Respectfully yours

(signed : George Comer)

Present Master Schooner Era