Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — Customs of the Esquimaux. [ARTICLE]

Customs of the Esquimaux.

Like the Indians, the Esquimaux often kill the old. Often the old are tired of life and beg to be dispatched. If food is scarce they are turned out to starve, whether they like it or do not. The superfluous women are also disposed of in this way. Barbarism shows itself in their treatment of the dead. The body of a favorite wife or ohild is sometime* protected through the winter and decently buried in the spring, but as a general rule corpses are dragged a short distance from the village and abandoned to the dogfe The savages have no idea of the marringe relation. Women are treated as chattel* The number of wives a man may have is regulated not bj his possessions, as among our Mormons, but by his ability to manage women. One infers from this that polygamy is not carried ou to any great extent