Item 7 - Typed letter from C. F. Hamilton to Sir James G. Frazer

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Royal North West Mounted Police, Office of the Comptroller, Ottawa - Thanks him for the Anthropological Questions and describes the steps he has taken to disseminate them among the Royal North West Mounted Police and the Indian Agencies as well, and asks for more copies; mentions the Eskimo are still very primitive, 'a few years' ago were in the Stone Age'; notices that the questions lack one about attitudes to insanity; [Charles Deering] La Nauze, the man who arrested the Eskimo murderers mentioned that they ate the liver and entrails to keep the dead men's spirits from molesting them; describes a man strangled because he was possessed by a Wendigo; suggests Frazer try the Hudson Bay Company, and mentions [Vilhjalmur] Stefansson, who probably wishes to use his anthropological observations for profit.