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handling stone ware, and here they were probably always far 

 second in activity to the Puiblfrmmt. 



Of the still existing tribes the Akullakattagmiut have 

 about the fewest natural resources in fact, wood only, and 

 in the sale of it they have to compete not alone with the Hanerag- 

 mmt and Puiblifmlut who come to gather wood at their very 

 door, but also with all the tribes members of which habitually 

 or occasionally visit Bear lake. They no doubt were once an 

 important link in the commercial chain along the coast from 

 the Gulf to Cape Parry. This traffic and the intercourse with 

 the western (just where located?) Eskimo, whom they call 

 Ualinefmuit, is remembered by them as well as by the Noahonif- 

 ralut, Uallifyumiut, and Pallirrmut. The westerners are dis- 

 liked and feared by all, next to the Indians. There are living 

 at Cape Bexley and elsewhere persons whose parents had their 

 homes west along the coast well towards Cape Lyon none of 

 these belonged to that part of the westerners who are disliked, 

 but welcoming from farther west, were considered to do so, 

 and when we were found to be comparatively harmless we were 

 said to be an improvement on our ancestors (I was by the 

 Akullakattagmiut considered of the same race as my com- 

 panions). 



What west-going traffic there was through the hands of the 

 Akuliakattagmiut must have consisted almost exclusively of 

 stoneware, as the copper needed for the district beyond Parry 

 would come logically from Nelson head. Of course the popu- 

 lation between Capes Parry and Bexley may have received 

 through the Akullakattagmiut, copper, the ultimate source of 

 which was either Prince Albert sound or the Coppermine river 

 and Dismal lake. This trade may have been of some volume, 

 for the remains indicate a considerable population along the 

 entire coastline. What they received from the west must 

 have been confined pretty strictly to Alaskan goods, for the 

 country between the Colville river and Cape Bexley does not, 

 so far as we know, produce anything which formerly or now is 

 not as abundantly to be had east of Cape Bexley, unless it were 

 fishnets, and of their ever having been known to the people 

 (except by hearsay) we have found no trace- 



