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<blockquote data-quote="Vince" data-source="post: 22468" data-attributes="member: 843"><p>Hi Croaker, I didn't post that for you, But did expect you to respond. I wonder what the eskimos ate? What was the traditional Eskimo diet</p><p><strong>Stefansson's firsthand early-1900s accounts of unacculturated Inuit</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong>The explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent several years with the Inuit ("Eskimos") of Northern Canada and Alaska in the early 1900s, speaking their language and eating the same food. Although by that time some Inuit had already partially adopted the Western diet and lifestyle, those living in remote areas had not yet met any Westerners. Stefansson [1913] relates his first encounter with the Dolphin and Union Straits Inuit, and provides a firsthand account of the traditional diet and lifestyle of an unacculturated group of Inuit.</p><p></p><p>Stefansson reports that the Dolphin and Union Straits Inuit still used stone-age technology to procure and process their foods, and that he was the first Westerner to make contact with them. They spoke the same dialect as the Mackenzie River Inuit, which enabled Stefansson to interact with them, since he had previously lived 3 years with the Western Inuit groups and spoke the language.</p><p></p><p><strong>Report of the Inuit diet on first contact.</strong> In regard to the diet of the unacculturated Dolphin and Union Straits Inuit, Stefansson [1913, pp. 174-178] reports:</p><p>My host was the seal-hunter whom we had first approached on the ice (...). [His wife] boiled some seal-meat for me, but she had not boiled any fat, for she did not know whether I preferred the blubber boiled or raw. They always cut it in small pieces and ate it raw themselves; but the pot still hung over the lamp, and anything she put into it would be cooked in a moment. When I told her that my tastes quite coincided with hers--as, in fact, they did--she was delighted. People were much alike, then, after all, though they came from a great distance. She would, accordingly, treat me exactly as if I were one of their own people come to visit them from afar...</p><p></p><p>When we had entered the house the boiled pieces of seal-meat had already been taken out of the pot and lay steaming on a side-board. On being assured that my tastes in food were not likely to differ from theirs, my hostess picked out for me the lower joint of a seal's fore leg, squeezed it firmly between her hands to make sure nothing should later drip from it, and handed it to me, along with her own copper-bladed knife; the next most desirable piece was similarly squeezed and handed to her husband, and others in turn to the rest of the family....</p><p></p><p>Our meal was of two courses: the first, meat; the second, soup. The soup is made by pouring cold seal blood into the boiling broth immediately after the cooked meat has been taken out of the pot, and stirring briskly until the whole comes nearly (but never quite) to a boil. This makes a soup of thickness comparable to our English pea-soups, but if the pot be allowed to come to a boil, the blood will coagulate and settle to the bottom...</p><p></p><p><strong>Comments, clarifications, and conclusions.</strong> A few clarifications on the above, from Stefansson [1913]. The fuel used to boil the seal meat was seal oil. Stefansson describes an important cultural practice among the Inuit: families that had seal meat to eat shared their surplus with the families that did not. (Food sharing is a common cultural--and an important survival--practice among hunter-gatherers.)As the above represents first contact with an unacculturated group of Inuit living their traditional lifestyle, and the evidence indicates that blubber (animal fat) is eaten raw by the Inuit but seal meat routinely cooked, we conclude that the Inuit were not 100% raw. Whether they met the standard terminology used in this paper (and elsewhere in the raw community) of 75+% raw foods by weight (to qualify as "raw-fooders") is uncertain--this is discussed further below.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-3h.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-3h.shtml</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vince, post: 22468, member: 843"] Hi Croaker, I didn't post that for you, But did expect you to respond. I wonder what the eskimos ate? What was the traditional Eskimo diet [B]Stefansson's firsthand early-1900s accounts of unacculturated Inuit [/B]The explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent several years with the Inuit ("Eskimos") of Northern Canada and Alaska in the early 1900s, speaking their language and eating the same food. Although by that time some Inuit had already partially adopted the Western diet and lifestyle, those living in remote areas had not yet met any Westerners. Stefansson [1913] relates his first encounter with the Dolphin and Union Straits Inuit, and provides a firsthand account of the traditional diet and lifestyle of an unacculturated group of Inuit. Stefansson reports that the Dolphin and Union Straits Inuit still used stone-age technology to procure and process their foods, and that he was the first Westerner to make contact with them. They spoke the same dialect as the Mackenzie River Inuit, which enabled Stefansson to interact with them, since he had previously lived 3 years with the Western Inuit groups and spoke the language. [B]Report of the Inuit diet on first contact.[/B] In regard to the diet of the unacculturated Dolphin and Union Straits Inuit, Stefansson [1913, pp. 174-178] reports: My host was the seal-hunter whom we had first approached on the ice (...). [His wife] boiled some seal-meat for me, but she had not boiled any fat, for she did not know whether I preferred the blubber boiled or raw. They always cut it in small pieces and ate it raw themselves; but the pot still hung over the lamp, and anything she put into it would be cooked in a moment. When I told her that my tastes quite coincided with hers--as, in fact, they did--she was delighted. People were much alike, then, after all, though they came from a great distance. She would, accordingly, treat me exactly as if I were one of their own people come to visit them from afar... When we had entered the house the boiled pieces of seal-meat had already been taken out of the pot and lay steaming on a side-board. On being assured that my tastes in food were not likely to differ from theirs, my hostess picked out for me the lower joint of a seal's fore leg, squeezed it firmly between her hands to make sure nothing should later drip from it, and handed it to me, along with her own copper-bladed knife; the next most desirable piece was similarly squeezed and handed to her husband, and others in turn to the rest of the family.... Our meal was of two courses: the first, meat; the second, soup. The soup is made by pouring cold seal blood into the boiling broth immediately after the cooked meat has been taken out of the pot, and stirring briskly until the whole comes nearly (but never quite) to a boil. This makes a soup of thickness comparable to our English pea-soups, but if the pot be allowed to come to a boil, the blood will coagulate and settle to the bottom... [B]Comments, clarifications, and conclusions.[/B] A few clarifications on the above, from Stefansson [1913]. The fuel used to boil the seal meat was seal oil. Stefansson describes an important cultural practice among the Inuit: families that had seal meat to eat shared their surplus with the families that did not. (Food sharing is a common cultural--and an important survival--practice among hunter-gatherers.)As the above represents first contact with an unacculturated group of Inuit living their traditional lifestyle, and the evidence indicates that blubber (animal fat) is eaten raw by the Inuit but seal meat routinely cooked, we conclude that the Inuit were not 100% raw. Whether they met the standard terminology used in this paper (and elsewhere in the raw community) of 75+% raw foods by weight (to qualify as "raw-fooders") is uncertain--this is discussed further below. [URL]http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-3h.shtml[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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