The Mountie

and The Stone-Age Killers

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By

pele HW. GODSELL
PIRGSs EIR ISES:

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ROUCHED over a seal-hole on
C the wind-swept ice of Kent

Peninsula in the heart of
Canada’s Northwest Passage, Tata-
magama, the Cogmollock Eskimo,
kept his keen black eyes centred on
the ivory marker he’d pushed
through the

breathing hole of

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Lying on his face was the trader, shot through the
heart. Ihe Mounties had got their man but .

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A fact story of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Natchuk, the seal, which would be
disturbed the moment the mammal
came up for air. As the flickering
Aurora Borealis flashed in scintil-
lating abandon through the Arctic
night, Tatamagama’s mind wan-
dered to the dome-shaped snow-

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A veteran Hudson's Bay Com-
pany offtcer, friend and trail
companion of Corporal Doak,
the writer saw him off on his
Arctic patrol and, later, estab-
lished a chain of trading posts
in the heart of the Cogmollock
sealing grounds.

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houses of his tribesmen a few miles
to the eastward. There lived Pug-
nana’s wife, Kupak. Fat, broad of
back, and capable of carrying heavy
packs, she had, in fact, all those
graces which made a woman de-
sirable in Eskimo eyes.

Tatamagama had long wished for
a wife of his own, but there was a
shortage of women in the tribe. One
of the peculiar Oriental customs

practised by the Cogmollock Eskimos
of Coronation Gulf was that of de-

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Corporal Doak of the Mounted Police, photo

taken by Philip Godsell while Doak was

patrolling with him down the Mackenzie, a

year before the Mountie left to capture the
slayers of Pugnana.

stroying unwanted female children at
birth. No doubt it arose from the
fact that life was difficult enough in
the Arctic without the hunters hav-
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tion of women who, from the Eskimo
point of view, were looked upon as
being non-producers and were con-

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