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THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT 



ETH. ANN. 18 



The Point Barrow Eskimo occupy the coast from Cape Lisburiie to 

 Point Barrow. The Malemut inhabit the country from Point Hope 

 around the shores of Kotzebue sound to beyond Cape Bspenberg-, and 

 thence soutli to Unaktolik river. From this point southward to tiie 

 Yukon mouth, inchiding St Michael island, are the Unalitor Unalig- 

 mut. The people of Cape Prince of Wales, Port Clarence, and King 

 island are the Kinugumut. The people occupying the coast from Port 

 Clarence and around to Cape Nome, Golofnin bay, and Nubviukhchug- 

 aluk, including the interior of the peninsula back from the coast country 

 as well as Sledge (Aziak) island, are Kaviagmut. 



The people of the Diomede islands and of East cape, Siberia, are a 

 group of Eskimo of whom I failed to obtain a special designation. 



South of this point the Eskimo of Plover bay and the neighboring 

 coast form another group. The people of St Lawrence island form 

 still another group, and of these also I failed to record any special 

 designation. 



The people of the lower Yukon, from Paimut down to the vicinityvOf 

 Pastolik, including the Y'ukon delta, are the Ikogmut. The Magemut 

 are the people occupying the low, marshy country back from the lower 

 Y'ukon, between it and the Kuskokwim, extending from a line just 

 back of the Kuskokwim northwesterly to the coast between Cape 

 Komanzof and the Kusilvak branch of the Yukon mouth. 



The iSTunivagmut are the people of Nunivak island and the main- 

 land at Cape Vancouver. 



The Kaialigamut are the people occupying the coast northward from 

 Cape Vancouver to Kushuuuk, Kaialigamut, and the adjacent villages. 

 The Kuskokwagmut are the people occupying the villages along the 

 lower Kuskokwim and the adjacent country to the north of that point 

 to a line where begin the other divisions already named. 



.«CK GREEN WHITE BLUE RED BROWN 



Fig. 1— Scheme of color on masks and raa.sk-like objects, grave boxes, and totem markings. 



PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS 



The Eskimo from Bering strait to the lower Y'ukon are fairly well- 

 built people, averaging among the men about o feet 2 or 3 inches in 

 height. The Yukon Eskimo and those living southv/ard from that 

 river to the Kuskokwim are, as a rule, shorter and more squarely built. 

 The Kuskokwim people are darker of complexion than those to the 

 northward, and have rounder features. The men commonly have a 

 considerable growth of hair on their faces, becoming at times a thin 



