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fine or complete people. Au Indian, or Tinne, is termed fn-lci'-lik, from 

 m'-TciJi, " a louse egg; " this is a term of derision, referring to the fact 

 that the long hair of the Tinne is commonly filled with the eggs of 

 these parasites. The Eskimo i^ractice the tonsure, so that their hair is 

 not so conspicuous as that of the Tinne. The Russians are termed 

 Kas-((l; from Cossack; all other whites are known as A-g^tl'-nJc. 



Among the Unalit, with the exceptions mentioned below, whatever 

 a man makes, or obtains by hunting, is his own. 



When a man dies some of his implements and other articles are 

 placed by his grave and the remainder are divided among his children 

 and other relatives, the former usually receiving the larger share. The 

 wife generally makes the distribution soon after her husband's death, 

 often on the day of the funeral. In some cases, however, if a man's 

 blood relatives are greedy, they make the division among themselves, 

 leaving very little for the family. 



To the sons usually pass the hunting implements, while the orna- 

 ments and household articles go to the wife and daughters. If there 

 are several sous the eldest get the least, the most valuable things 

 being given to the youngest. Articles of particular value, such as 

 heirlooms (pai-tuJc), go to the youngest son, as does also the father's 

 rifle, which, however, is used by the eldest brother until the younger 

 one is old enough to use it. 



When a man dies his sous, if old enough, support the family; other- 

 wise they are cared for by relatives. 



The most productive places for setting seal and salmon nets are cer- 

 tain rocky points which guard the entrances to bays. The right to use 

 them is regarded as personal property, and is handed down from father 

 to son. After the death of the father the sons use these i)laces in com- 

 mon until all of the brothers, save one, get new places at unoccupied 

 points. If anyone else puts a net in one of these places the original 

 owner is permitted to take it out and put down his own. These net 

 places are sometimes rented or given out on shares, when the man who 

 allows another to use his place is entitled to half the catch. 



The first deer, seal, white whale, or other kind of large game killed 

 by a young man is brought to the village, aud there one of the old men 

 cuts it up and divides it among the villagers, without leaving a particle 

 for the young hunter; this is done, they say, that the young man may 

 be successful afterward in hunting. If a net is set for any particular 

 game and something else is caught, the latter also is divided among 

 the villagers in the same way, it being said that if this is done other 

 animals of the same kind will come to the net. This is the practice 

 when a white whale is caught in a seal net or a seal in a salmon net. 



Seals killed with gun or spear may be taken at once to the village, 

 but all seals taken in nets in the fall must be stored in a cache built of 

 stones and covered with logs and stones. These storage places are 

 built on the shore near the places where the nets are set. The cache 



