Educator Reports
On Wife Stealing,
Eskimo Style
WASHINGTON, 0P> — When it
comes to wives, Alaskan Eskimos
do things a little differently.
If one man covets another’s
wife, he often simply steals her.
You’d think this would cause
hard feelings, but it often leads
to lasting friendship between the
two men.
This is especially true if the
wife stealer later pays compensa
tion to the first husband. In that
case they have entered into a for
mal trade, a commercial transac
tion as it were, and such traders
traditionally become fast friends.
These observations were made
about Eskimos living in the icy
region between Alaska’s Brooks
Mountains and the Arctic Coast by
Dr. Robert F. Spencer of the Uni
versity of Minnesota. He pub
lished them recently in a bulletin
of the Bureau of American Eth
nology of the Smithsonian Insti
tution.
Sometimes a feud develops, but
not just from the stealing of a
wife. A feud starts only if blood
is spilled when the first husband
tries to kidnap his wife back
again.
The Eskimos even have a word
for the relationship between the
first and second husbands in wife
stealing cases.
The word is “Nuliinucoak.” It
doesn’t reflect shame or disgrace,
but a sort of kinship between the
two men. It implies “a certain de
gree of cooperation and mutual
aid” between them, Spencer re
ported.
Timely Hole-In-One
OKLAHOMA CITY, (/PI — A
holdup man told service station
operator Roy Sewell Monday night
to “put ’em \ip.'’ Sewell’s hands
shot into the air.
So did a roll of bills he was
holding.
The bandits and a companion
looked for the wad of bills. They
couldn’t find it and fled.
Sewell, 31, had no better luck.
He called police, who found the
money had dropped through a
small crevice in the concrete block
wall.
Sewell said he will have to
spend $150 to tear into the wall
to get the money. But he’ll do it.
There was $750 in the roll.
Halibut Catch Reported
Slower Than ’58
SEATTLE, (/PI — A decline from
last year in the Area 2 halibut
catch was reported yesterday by
the International Pacific Halibut
Commission.
Landings through Tuesday to
taled 17,300,000 pounds compared
with 20,700,000 pounds in the same
period of 1958. The area extends
south of Cape Spencer.
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DEBITS . . .
SHELBY, N. C., UR — The Shel
by Daily Stad said few of the
girls’ fathers could find anything
wrong when the Star made a
typographical error early last
week. The error appeared in a
story about a sub-debutante ball
sponsored by the Junior- Charity
League. A sentence in the story
referred to the sub-debs as “sub
debts.”
SHE WENT THATAWAY . . .
GREAT BEND, Kans., W —
Officials of the Great Bend Cham
ber of Commerce wanted to noti
fy Mrs. Walter Rugan that she
had won a contest sponsored by
the Chamber. The prize was a
week’s vacation in Colorado.
They finally located Mrs. Ru
gan. She’s vacationing in Colorado.
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