Les Grands Esquimaux par Emile Petitot. - 1887.
| Database ID | 27083 | |
| Institution | University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections | |
| Fonds/Collection | Morton Manuscripts Collection | |
| Series | MSS-51 | |
| File/Item Reference | MSS-51-1-10 (Box 1) | |
| Date of creation | 1887 | |
| Physical description/extent | 1 book; 4 mm of textual records | |
| Number of images | 1 | |
| Historical note | Emile Fortune Stanislas Joseph Petitot (1838 - 1916) was born in southern France near Marseilles. At the age of twenty-four he was ordained to the priesthood and joined the order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate which sent him to North America in 1862. He spent the next 13 years in the Mackenzie Valley as a missionary and explorer. During his travels in northern Canada, he collected information and material for his dictionary of the major Athapaskan Indian languages (published in Paris in 1887) and for his other works on the character and customs of the Inuit and the Hareskin, Dogrib, Slave, Chippewyans, Loucheux, Cree and Hare Indians. | |
| Scope and content | Emile Petitot's book describes his travels among the Inuit and the Anderson and Mackenzie Eskimos during the period 1862 to 1883. He also provides a vivid account of their customs, traditions, beliefs and living conditions. See also Petitot Manuscripts, I.10, vol. 2, for English version (202 pg.; translated 1981). | |
| Restrictions on access | There are no restrictions on access. | |
| Contributer | Emile Petitot (author) | |
| Copyright holder | Public domain | |
| Copyright expiry date | Public domain | |
| Other terms governing use and reproduction | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher. | |
| Type | Archival | |
| Primary Media | Textual documents | |
| Specific document types | Books | |
| Provenance Access Point | Morton, A.S. | |
| Other notes | Petitot's book "Les Grands Esquimax" was published in Paris in 1887. Dr. Otto Hohn, Professor of Physiology, University of Alberta, translated the book into English in 1981. The Boreal Institute for Northern Studies published it as part of their series Occasional Publication No. 10. This collection was presented to the Institute for Northern Studies by Donatien Savoie, on behalf of the Honourable John Munro, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, 17 October 1980. The material was deposited in Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan Library, on the dissolution of the Institute in 1982. | |
| Treaty boundaries | No data | |
| Cultural region | Arctic | |
| Names | Petitot, Ãmile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph, 1838-1917 | |
| Subject | Culture Fishing Hunting and Trapping North Eskimos Inuit | |
| Date Range(s) | 1880-1889 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/27083
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