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Mack. River Esk. tiipahd- (rain). ' Malemute, niptiga (night). 



Labrador, niptar-poh (foggy). 

 Tchuakkak I. niiptschuku (rain). 

 Anadyr Tchiiktschi, veptschuk (ram). 

 Church. River Esk., 7upa (dead). 

 Mack. " " nipfa-toark (quar- 



ter, moon's). 



Cb. R. , nlpalukuni (to rain). 

 Mack. R. mpaluktoark (to rain). 

 Cumb. Sound, nepewoke (sunset). 

 Mack. River, nipiyork (sunset). 



" " «ij9i(/o«r^- (to set, of stars). 



And doubtless, a more thorougli examination, which I have the 

 intention, thought not at present the leisure to make, will result in 

 additions to the short list given above. The far western Eskimo seem 

 to have come into contacc with Aztec-speaking i-aces, for in their 

 vocabularies we find traces of this, e.g. : 



Aztec, metztU (moon). I Anadyr Tchuktschi, raatHcluik (sun). 



Tarahamara, maiUacn. Kotz. Sound, inaje (sun). 



Cora, matzakere, Cahita, media. \ Kadiak, mcuhak (star). 



Dr. Rink^ tells of a legend regarding the procuring of Copper by 

 the Eskimo from inland tribes to the south. Now, with the primitive 

 Eskimo stock situated to the west of Hudson's Bay, from what peoijle 

 would the Eskimo be likely to borrow tlnnr coi^perl From the 

 Mound-buildei'S, we may reasonably suppose. Now the word for 

 copper in the various Eskimo dialects is, K«inooi/ak (Hudson Bay), 

 Hannoyark (Mack. R.), Kannujak (Unalaska), Kaniija (Kadiak), 

 Kanuak, Keunijak, (Tchugaz), and in Mohawk we find tlie word for 

 copper to be quennies, in Iroquois kanad^la. May not the ancestors 

 of the Mohawk and Iroquois have borrowed this word from the 

 coppei'-using people the Mound-builders \ and may not the Eskimo 

 have done the samel Perhaps the Eskimo as Mr. Dall'-' once hinted 

 were related to the Mound-builders. Now in Japanese the word for 

 copper is aka-gane (i-ed-metal) and the word for metal is gane or kane. 

 In the appended comparative vocabiilary of Eskimo and Turanian 

 dialects, there are about 100 Japanese words, for which equivalents 

 are to be found in the various Eskimo dialects. And there seems to 

 be some similarity between the Japanese and those American dialects 

 which belong to the region adjacent to the habitat of the Mound- 

 builders, so that it would not be strange if the Jaj^anese in 

 addition to being kinsmen of the Eskimo, wf^vo, nearly related to the 

 people of the Mounds, or were even their descendants ; perhaps the 

 first emigrants from the Mound-builders' land, harassed by less settled 

 and more warlike tribes. The appended list of words common to 



1. Tales and Trad, of Eskimo, 1875, p. 108. 



2. Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. 1869. 



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