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of the pots and lamps bears witness to it) that they "always" 

 got all their supply from the Haneragmiut and Puiblifmiut, 

 while we know that these tribes bought them from the Nagyuk- 

 togmiut and others whose summer hunting grounds gave them 

 access to the common source (I believe) of most stone lamps 

 and pots east of Point Hope, Alaska the Kogluktualuk river. 

 It may seem at first sight that some lamps might have come 

 from the more easterly, and long ago known to us, quarries 

 near Back river, but in that case the Sound people would have 

 received them from their most intimate friends, the Ekalluktog- 

 miut, who are, and no doubt always were, their intermediaries 

 in dealing with Back river. That this was so, is strongly 

 negatived by the oldest now living Sound people, who say that 

 formerly frequently, and now occasionally, they sold pots to 

 the Ekalluktogmiut instead of buying from them. 



The Cape Bathurst people still definitely remember that 

 pots and lamps were the chief objects of the trips across from 

 the mainland at Parry to Banks island. The Sound people now 

 occupy Nelson head at the season (March) when these trips 

 used to be made, and they say it was always so. I have, there- 

 fore, supposed they were the ones with whom the Parry people 

 traded. The Sound people seem to have forgotten about this 

 trade which the Bathurst people tell of, but this might be ex- 

 plained by supposing that the trade to them was never of great 

 importance, that they did not know whence the visitors came, 

 and that possibly only a few participated in the trading the 

 westernmost village of those which then, as now, stretched north- 

 east from Nelson head to beyond De Sails bay. Possibly, 

 however, the people met at Nelson head were of the proper 

 inhabitants of Banks island who acted as middlemen between the 

 mainland and Victoria island. 



After stoneware, the chief import of the KanhiryUafmiGt 

 was wood, which came chiefly from the same two tribes as the 

 stoneware, by routes which may here be conveniently described. 

 The map shows it to be less than sixty miles across the penin- 

 sula south from the Sound to Dolphin and Union straits, but 

 this short distance is over mountains and the Eskimo preferred 

 to go around the southwest corner of Victoria island. The trips 



