44 THK POINT liAKKOW ESKIMO. 



Island), casrwanl, ami tliosc who inhabit tlic small villages liptAveen 



her. The m-airsl to I'ltint l!i'li-hcr, Nuua'ria, is now (Icscrtfd. and its 

 inliahilantshavccstahlishcd tlic new villag(M)f Sida'ni m-.m-v the inlet. 

 The third villa.uv consists of a Tew houses only, and is called A'tfine. 

 The people of these villa.^vs aiv so closely eoiiiieeted that they are sonie- 

 tinn-s s|.oken of e(.lleeti\cly as Siila'rnnmiiin. At a distance np the 

 river, which Hows into Wain wri.i;hl lidet, live the Ku'Dmiuu, "the peo- 

 ple who live on the river." These appear to be closely related to the 

 ]ieo))le of the hist village below \\ainwri};lit Inlet, which is named 

 KlIanwitaNi'lM. \t any rate, a ]iart\- of them who came to Gape Smyth 

 in the sprin.i; of is.s;! were si)oken of indirt'erently as Kuuminu or Kll- 

 auwitawlTimiun. 



Small parties from all the villa.u'cs occasionally visit Toint Barrow 

 during;- the winter for the i)uriiose of trade anil amnsement, traveling 

 with sled-es aloiij; the lan.l ice when' it is smooth, otherwise aloiis' the 

 edne of theclitfs; and similar |)artics from tlie two northern villa.u'es 

 return these visits. No speiaal article of trad.' appears to be soiioht at 



supply of skins of the bearded seal, tit for makin.u umiak covers, as I 

 knew of a load of these broui;ht U]) for sale, and in the sprinj;' of l.S,s;5 a 

 party went down to the inlet in search of sncli skins. Single families 

 and small iiarties like that from KUauwitawin, mentioned above, soine- 



whalin.u crews at tiie northern villages. The people that \x<- saw from 

 these settlements were very liki' the northern Kskimos but many of 

 them spoke a perceptibly harsher dialect, sounding the final consonants 

 .listinctly. 



The i)eo])le at Point Hope are known as Tikera'nmiun "inhabitants 

 of the forefinger (Point Hope)," and their .settlement is occ^asioually vis- 

 ited by straggling parties. No natives from Point Hope came north 

 during the 2 years of our stay, but a party of them visited the Plover 

 in IS."),!.' We found some people acquainti'd by name with the Kuwu'R- 

 miun and Silawi'fimiun of the Kuwfdc (Kowak or "Putnam") and Sil- 

 awik Rivers emi)tying into llotham Inlet, and one man was famiHar with 

 the name of Sisnalin, the great trading cami) at Kotzebue Sound. We 

 were unable to find that they had any knowledge of Asia ("Kokhlit- 

 unna,") or the Siberian Eskimo, bnt this was probably due to lack of 

 properly directed inquiries, as they .seem to have been well informed on 

 the subject in the I'lorrr's time.' 



With the peojilc of the Nu'natak (Iidand) lliver, the NunataiTmiun, 

 they are well acquainted, as they meet them every summer for purposes 

 of trading, and a family or two of Nunatanmiiin sometimes spend the 



'Maguirc, NW. P.issa','!-, p. 384. 



= 11 is to bi' regretteil that tlic expedition waii not siipplieil witli a eopy of Dr. Simp80n'.s excellent 

 paper, .is much valuable information was missed for laek of suggestions as to the direction of inquiries. 



