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Kflusiktogmiut. This is really no indication of what names 

 may exist in that district. The people of western Coronation 

 gulf travel little and the second tribe from them in any direction 

 is likely to give its name to all beyond. (A striking parallel 

 case is found in Alaska, where a small, never important, and 

 now nearly extinct tribe, the Nunatagmiut, has given its name 

 to a dozen more important tribes and now appears in their 

 place on ethnological maps and the census schedules of the 

 United States government. I have talked with hundreds 

 who are called Nunatagmiut, and have found only three who 

 are Nunatagmiut). 



(2) The Ekalluktogmiut, Albert Edward bay; central Victoria 

 island. 



The AhiAgmlut, Ogden bay (?); inland towards Back 

 river and to the Akilinik river. 



The Kaernermiut or Kainermmt, Back River inland at all 

 seasons. 



It will be noticed that as to the geographic distribution 

 of the tribes, there is a blank in our information for the south 

 coast of Victoria island from Mackenzie river to Albert Edward 

 bay. This district is said to be everywhere populated, but my 

 informant knew no name for the population other than Kilusik- 

 t6gmmt. There are also sure to be several tribes between 

 Gray bay and Ogden bay on the mainland, though I could find 

 out only the one Uminmtiktogmmt. Banks island is unpeopled 

 in summer, for it was depopulated by a series of famines, the 

 last of which took off the last few survivors about fifteen years 

 ago. There are no people any longer north of Minto inlet on 

 the west coast, and there may never have been any on the north 

 coast, for so the Prince Albert Sound people believe. It is 

 doubtful if there are inhabitants on the east coast of Victoria 

 island north of Albert Edward bay. 



We have now named, and located to the best of our present 

 ability, the tribes whose natural resources and trade activities 

 are to be discussed. The treatment is based on information 

 secured on the mainland between Cape Bexley and Gray bay, 

 and in southwestern Victoria island, between May 13, 1910, 

 and May 17, 1911. For the first three months spent with 



