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THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT 



ETH: ANN&quot;. 18 



The Point Barrow Eskimo occupy the coast from Cape Lisburne to 

 Point Barrow. The Malemut inhabit the country from Point Hope 

 around the shores of Kotzebue sound to beyond Cape Espeuberg, and 

 thence south to Unaktolik river. From this point southward to the 

 Yukon mouth, including St Michael island, are the Unalitor Unalig- 

 nmt. The people of Cape Prince of Wales, Port Clarence, and King 

 island are the Kinugumut. The people occupying the coast from Port 

 Clarence and around to Cape Xorne, Golofnin bay, and Nubviukhehug- 

 alnk, including the interior of the peninsula back from the coast country 

 as well as Sledge (Aziak) island, are Kaviagmut. 



The people of the Diomede islands and of East cape, Siberia, are a 

 group of Eskimo of whom I failed to obtain a special designation. 



South of this point the Eskimo of Plover bay and the neighboring 

 coast form another group. The people of St Lawrence island form 

 still another group, and of these also I failed to record any special 

 designation. 



The people of the lower Yukon, from Paimut down to the vicinityvOf 

 Pastolik, including the Yukon delta, are the Ikogmut. The Magemut 

 are the people occupying the low, marshy country back from the lower 

 Yukon, between it and the Kuskokwim, extending from a line just 

 back of the Kuskokwim northwesterly to the coast between Cape 

 Komauzof and the Kusilvak branch of the Yukon mouth. 



The Nunivagmut are the people of Nunivak island and the main 

 land at Cape Vancouver. 



The Kaialigamut are the people occupying the coast northward from 

 Cape Vancouver to Kushunuk, Kaialigamut, and the adjacent villages. 

 The Kuskokwagmut are the people occupying the villages along the 

 lower Kuskokwim and the adjacent country to the north of that point 

 to a line where begin the other divisions already named. 



BLACK GREEN WHITE BLUE RED BROWN 



FIG. 1 Scheme of color on masks and mask-like objects, grave boxes, and totem markings. 



PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS 



The Eskimo from Bering strait to the lower Yukon are fairly well- 

 built people, averaging among the men about o feet 2 or 3 inches in 

 height. The Yukon Eskimo and those living southward from that 

 river to the Kuskokwim are, as a rule, shorter and more squarely built. 

 The Kuskokwim people are darker of complexion than those to the 

 northward, and have rounder features. The men commonly have a 

 considerable growth of hair on their faces, becoming at times a thin 



