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were, it is said, in recent times at least, usually made by the 

 Sound people, and always in winter, for they do not hunt on the 

 peninsula in summer, though the Hanefagmiut do. Besides 

 pots and lamps they purchased ready-made bows, sleds, snow- 

 shovels, wooden platters, etc., and material for arrows, tent 

 poles, and lance shafts. For these they paid with copper and 

 copper implements, horn dippers and spoons, caribou skins, 

 and possibly with articles received from Cape Parry. 



The second route by which wood and stone were imported 

 was across the neck of the peninsula from the southeast. This 

 was a summer route. A party of the Sound people every year 

 hunts southeast to meet the Puiblifmmt, who hunt northeast 

 from Simpson bay. Here in midsummer they exchange exactly 

 the same articles as they do with the Hanefagmiut in winter 

 the pots and lamps they get from both tribes have a common 

 origin as above pointed out; the wooden ware received from 

 the Hanefagmiut is all of Mackenzie drift wood, that received 

 from the Puiblffmhlt is partly driftwood gathered by themselves 

 or purchased from the AkuliakattagmiQt, and partly live wood 

 from Great Bear lake, chiefly purchased from the KOgluktSgmiQt 

 and Pallifmmt. 



The main trade resource of the Hanefagmiut is firestone 

 (pyrites), from a creek mouth east of Point Williams, with 

 which they supply the entire Dolphin and Union strait, and 

 Coronation gulf as far east as Cape Barrow, at least. Wood 

 they trade only to the Kanhifyuafmiut. This they gather 

 in the fore part of winter on the mainland shore in the 

 Akuliakattagmiut territory or purchase it of the Akuliakattag- 

 miut the two tribes camp together at Cape Bexley where 

 they are visited before or during the dark days by most of the 

 Puiblffmiut and by members of other tribes as far east as the 

 Nagyuktogmiut. This constitutes at Cape Bexley a sort of 

 midwinter fair, which probably is an ancient institution. Except 

 as onlookers at this trading gathering, the HanefagmiQt do not 

 ever seem to have played an important part in the traffic between 

 east and west they were not situated geographically so as to 

 be the natural middlemen between any other tribes except in 



