46 THE POINT BAKUOW ESKIMO. 



Point Barrow people have but slight acquaintance with them, as they 

 see them only a short time each summer. Captain Smith, however, in 

 forms me that iu the summer of 1885 one boat load of them came back 

 with the Point Barrow traders to Point Barrow, where he saw them on 

 board of his ship. There was a man at Utkiavwln who was called &quot; the 

 KuiiimYdllii.&quot; He came there when a child, probably, by adoption, and 

 was in no way distinguishable from the other people. 



Father Petitot appears to include these people in the &quot; Tn/&amp;gt;eo/&amp;gt;meut &quot; 

 division of his &quot;Tchiglit&quot; Eskimo, whom he loosely describes as in 

 habiting the coast from Ilerschel Island to Liverpool Bay, including 

 the delta of the Mackenzie, 1 without locating their permanent villages. 

 In another place, however, he excludes the &quot; Ta/&amp;gt;eo/&amp;gt;iiieut &quot; from the 

 &quot;Tcliiglit,&quot; saying, &quot;Dans 1 ouest, les TcMglit communiquaient avec 

 lours plus proches voisins les Ta/&amp;lt;eo/?-meut,&quot; 2 while in a third place 3 he 

 gives the country of the &quot;Tchiglit&quot; as extending from the Coppermine 

 Kiver to the Colville, and on his map in the same volume, the &quot;Tareor- 

 meut &quot; are laid down in the Mackenzie delta only. According to his 

 own account, however, lie had no personal knowledge of any Eskimo 

 west of the Mackenzie delta. These people undoubtedly have a local 

 name derived from that of their winter village, but it is yet to be learned. 



It is possible that they do consider themselves the same people with 

 the, Eskimo of the Mackenzie delta, and call themselves by the general 

 name of &quot; Ta,neo/&amp;lt;meut &quot; (= Taxaiomiun in the Point Barrow dialect), 

 &quot; those who live by the sea.&quot; That they do not call themselves &quot; Kiiii- 

 mu dliii &quot; or &quot; Kanniali-enyuin &quot; or &quot; Kangmaligmeut&quot; is to my mind 

 quite certain. The word &quot;Kiiiimu dlm,&quot; as already stated, is used 

 at Norton Sound to designate the people of Point Barrow (I was 

 called a &quot;Kuilmu dlm&quot; by some Eskimo at St. Michaels because I 

 spoke the Point Barrow dialect), who do not recognize the name as be 

 longing to themselves, but have transferred it to the people under con 

 sideration. Now. &quot; Kuiimu dlln &quot; is a word formed after the analogy of 

 many Eskimo words from a noun kuuim; and the affix II ii or dliii (in 

 Greenlandic lik), &quot;one who has a .&quot; The radical noun, the mean 

 ing of which I can not ascertain, would become in the Mackenzie dialect 

 k/&amp;gt;agma/;k (using Petitot s orthography), which with -lik in the plural 

 would make k//agmalit. (According to Petitot s &quot;Grammaire&quot; the 

 plural of -lik in the Mackenzie dialect is -lit, and not -gdlit, as in Green 

 landic). This is the name given by Petitot on his map to the people of 

 the Anderson Kiver, 4 while he calls the Anderson Kiver itself Kf/agmalik. 5 

 The father, however, had but little personal knowledge of the natives 

 of the Anderson, having made but two, apparently brief, visits to their 

 village in 18G5, when he first made the acquaintance of the Eskimo. 

 lie afterwards became fairly intimate with the Eskimo of the Mackenzie 



1 Monographic, p. xl. 



2 Ibid, p. xvi. 



Bull, do la Society do Geographic, 6= ser., vol. 10, p. 256. 



* Soo also Monographic, etc., p. xi, where the name is spelled Kpamalit 



1 Vocabulaire, etc., p. 76. 



