MURDOCH.] TKIBAL I'UKNOMKNA. 43 



"Imiit" of other dialects, ami iiicaniii.i;- "iicoiilc," or ••Innuaii lifiiit,'s." 

 Under tlil.s name they iiiclu(U' wliitc iiicnand Imliaus as well as Ivskimo, 

 as is the case in Greenland and tlie iMacken/.ie River district, and proh 

 ably also everywhere else, thongh iiiaiiy writers have supposed it to he 

 applied by them only to their own race. 



They have however special names tin the loriner two races. Tlie 

 people of any village are known as '-the iaiial)itaiits of sneli and such 

 a place;" for instance, NuwuTiininn, "tlu^ inhal)itants of (lie [loint;" 

 Utkiavwinmiun, "the inhabitants of Utkiavwin;" Kuniiiiun (in (Ireen- 

 landic '•Kunymint"), "the people who live on the river.'' Tlie iieojdc 

 about Xorton Sonnd speak of the northern Eskimo, especially those of 

 Point Barrow and Cape Smyth, as " Kiiumii'dhn,'' wiiich is imt a name 

 derived from a location, bnt a sort of nickname, the meaninj;()f whicli 

 was not ascertained. The Point Marrow natives do not call tliemselves 

 by this name, bnt ai)ply it to those people whose winter villaj;-e is at 

 Demarcation Point (or Ilerschel Island, see aboxc, p. 2(>). Tiiis word 

 appears in the corrnpti'd form "Kokmnllit," as the name of the village 

 at Nuwuk on Petroff's map. Petroff derived his information rei;'ardin<; 

 the northern coast at second-hand from people who had obtained their 

 knowledge of names, etc., Horn the natives of Norton Sonnd. 



The i)eople of the two villages under consideration frecjuently go back- 

 ward and forward, sometimes removing permanently from one village to 

 the other, while strangers from distant villages sometimes winter here, 

 so that it was not until the end of the second year, when we were inti 

 mately accinainted with everyljody at Utkiavwin, that we could form 

 anything like a correct estimate of the population of this village.' 

 This we found to be about 140 souls. As well as we conhl judge, there 

 were about I."<(l or UiO at Nuwfdv. These figures show a great d(>crease 

 in nnud)ers since the end of l.S5o, when Dr. Simpson- reckoned the pop- 

 ulation of Xuwi'ik at 309. During the 2 years from September, 1881, to 

 August, 188;{, there were fifteen deaths that we heard of in the village 

 of rtkiavwifi alone, and only two children born in that period survived. 

 With this ratio helween the nund)er of l)irths and deaths, even in a 

 period of comi)arative i)lenty, it is ditticnlt to see how the race can es- 

 cape s|)ee(ly extinction, unless by accessions from with(jut, which in their 

 isolated situation they are not likely to receive.^ 



SOCIAL SrUKOUNDINGS. 

 <-oNT.\CT WITH rNrlVILIZKI> ITOPLE. 



Other Eskimo.— T\w nearest neighbors of tliese people, as has been 

 stated above, are the Eskimo living at Demarcation Point (or Ilerschel 



■See ■•Approxira.lte Census, etc.,- lieiM.rt of Point B.irrow Esp.. p. 49. 



3pr.™r;'eBHLte (Report, ,■.,■., ,., 4, ,.r .l,- nuu.ber of n.ttives on this part of the Arctic coast is 



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ment of 50 inliabilauts at Ih" Ccilvilli' Kivir isal-o a mere sumiuer caiup. no exis jiig i 



