. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Psychology and Morality 241- market for their skins, and even those natives who never fell in with the white men began to give some attention to it. The Eskimos were particularly struck by the fact that many articles of inestimable value to themselves, such as tin cans, scrap iron and steel needles, were very little prized by the white men, who set more store on fox-skins and other objects of little use to the natives them- selves and therefore of small value in their eyes. The white men again were inferior in hunting,
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Psychology and Morality 241- market for their skins, and even those natives who never fell in with the white men began to give some attention to it. The Eskimos were particularly struck by the fact that many articles of inestimable value to themselves, such as tin cans, scrap iron and steel needles, were very little prized by the white men, who set more store on fox-skins and other objects of little use to the natives them- selves and therefore of small value in their eyes. The white men again were inferior in hunting, except for the advantage their rifles gave them, and less hardy and enduring. They were ignorant, too, of the art of harpooning seals and of building snow huts, so that they could not move from their houses in. Fig. 69. The influx from the west. Christian Jorgenson Klengenberg (a Dane), his wife (an Eskimo woman from Wainwright inlet, N. Alaska), and their family, all of whom migrated into Coronation gulf in 1916 winter without their tents. Further they often bought meat from the natives, or employed them to hunt for them, and the women to sew their clothes. The journey of the two French missionaries to the mouth of the Coppermine river in 1913 must have opened the eyes of the Eskimos to the diflaculties under which the majority of white men labour when they try to cope with Arctic conditions of life and travel. For many different reasons, therefore, the natives conceived a certain amount of contempt for white men, a contempt that was only quahfied by a desire to gain some of their most valued possessions, their knives and axes and particularly their rifles and their ammunition. The receipt of indiscriminate presents, however small their value to the donors, undermined the dignity and independence of the natives, especially those of the Coppermine river basin who came more directly under this influence. They quickly dropped the custom of offering an equivalent for everything t
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