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at Ilerscliel Island, or Demarcation Point, and on the west at a small 

 village between Point Belcher and Wainright Inlet. The natives of 

 these villages are so closely connected, says Mr. Murdoch, &quot; that they 

 are sometimes spoken of collectively as Sidarunmium&quot; (= Sidarunmiut). 

 &quot; At a distance up the river, which Hows into Wainright Inlet, live the 

 Kunmiun, the people who live on the river. These appear to be 

 closely related to the first village below Wainright Inlet, which is 

 named Kilauwitawin.&quot; l 



The people at Point Hope, according to Mr. Murdoch, are known as 

 the Tikera fimiun, u inhabitants of the forefinger (Point Hope).&quot; 



The natives along the coast east of Point Barrow to and beyond the 

 Mackenzie are often spoken of by the Hudson Bay traders as the Mac 

 kenzie River Eskimo. They appear to be identical with those described 

 by Father Petitot as the Tapeopmeut [=Ta^eo meut] division of the 

 Tchiglit, and are termed by Murdoch the Kupfmmiun, and inhabit the 

 permanent villages at the li western mouth of the Mackenzie, at Shingle 

 Point and Point Sabine, with an outlying village, supposed to be 

 deserted, at Point Kay.&quot; Still another tribe is located at Anderson 

 River and Cape Bathurst, not considered by Petitot as the above 

 named, as he applies the name Kpagmalit. Sir John Richardson, the 

 first to meet with them [1820], calls them u Kette-garrce-oot. 



)&quot;) 2 



POPULATION. 



With reference to the population of the Eskimo of the several divi 

 sions, only approximate figures can be given. The Greenland group, 

 consisting of seventeen villages on the east coast, are stated by Holm, 

 in 1884-85, to number about 550, while on the west coast the &quot;mission 

 Eskimo&quot; numbered 10,122 in 1886, and the northern Greenland Eskimo, 

 or Arctic Highlanders of Eoss, number about 200. 



Doctor Boas estimates the &quot; Central or Baffin Laud Eskimo&quot; at 

 about 1,100. 



The natives along the coast in Labrador are stated by Rink, Packard, 

 and others, to number about 2,000 souls. 3 



The Alaskan Eskimo, comprising those of the mainland, as well as 

 the few (40?) upon Little Diomede Island, together with those on St. 

 Lawrence Island and the Aleutian Islanders, are estimated by Dall 

 and others at about 20,000. 



This, excepting the Siberian tribe, makes a total of about 34,000 

 Eskimo. What the former population, before the introduction of liquor 

 and social vices, may have been it is impossible to conjecture. It is 

 stated by one author (Dall) that the Aleutians formerly were estimated 

 at 20,000, but recently numbered only 1,500, which figure has also been 

 given by others, though according to a still later estimate these 

 islanders were put down at 2,200. 



1 Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology for 1887-88, 1892, pp. 43, 44. 



2 Franklin s Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the 

 years 1825, 1826, and 1827. London, 1828, p. 203. 



3 Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology for 1884-85, 1888, p. 426. 



