;RRorNi)iN(; 



habit of making pcrii"!! 

 They are a harmless. iiK 

 any assistance they can 



Capt. Collinsoii evidently never dicMnieil of iileiitilViiiu- tliis "liaiiii 

 less, iuotteiisi\e set i>l' Indians" witli -an niim^d IhmIn- of I ndniiis nT llie 

 Koyukiiii tribe." It is iiiiiiortaiit fliat his slalcni.'iil, (|ui)ted al>n\f, 

 shoilld he eurrected lest it serve as autlidrity loi' (Alendiiii;- tiie rain'c nt' 

 the Koyukuu Illdiaiis- to the Arctic Ocean. Tiie rniii( I'.arriiw iiednje 

 also kuow the name of the IT'ua kho tana,' or l'ji'al<()iiiia, as (he\ nrii 

 iiounce it. Their intercourse wit li all these Indians appears id be rather 

 sliglit and purely ediiunereial. FrieiuUy relations existed l)clween the 

 Itat Indians and the "Eskimos who live soniewheic near I he Cdlvilie" 

 as early as ISiO,^ while it was still -war totheknile" between tlie i'eel 

 Kiver Indians and the Kupiinmiun.'' 



The name Itku'dlTfi, of which I't ka-lyi ot Dr. Siniiison appears lo lie 



the plural, is a generic word for an Indian, and is iindonlitcdly thes: 



as the Greenland word eiKileK — |)lnial eiKigdlit — which means a tal)u 

 Ions "iidander" with u lace like a dou. ••They are martial sjiirits and 

 inhuman foes to maidcind: however, they only inhabit the east side of 

 the land.'"^ Dr. Rink' has alrea.Iy pointed out that this name is in us<. 

 as far as the Mackenzie River— tbr instance, the Indians are call.Ml 

 "eert-kai-lee" (Parry), or "it-ka.^h-lie" ( Lyon), at Fury and Ilccla Strait : 

 ik-kil-lin (Gilder), at the west shore ot Ilndson I!ay. and •• itiv.e'h-'it " 

 (Petitot) at the Mackenzie. I'etitol also gives this word as itkpe'lit in 

 his vocabulary (p. -12.) These words, including the term Ingalik, or 

 In-ka-lik, ai)i>lied by the natives of Norton Sound to the Indians." and 



which Mr. Dall was iiifor d meant "children of a louse's egg." all 



ai)pear to be compounds ot the word erlvelC, a h)Use egg, and the alHx 

 lik. (I suspect eiKilcK, IVom tiie form of its ])lural, to be a corrni>tion 

 of "eriviliiv," since there is no re<ogiiized alHx leK in Greenlaudic.) 



Petitot^ gives an interesting tradition in ivgard to the origin of this 

 name: "La tradition Iniiok cU'daigne de jiailer ici des Peaux-ltouges. 

 L'ayant fait obs.'rver a luon narrateur Ayrliaiic. -Oh!" me repondait il. 

 ' il rie vant pas la peine d"cii jiarler. Us naqnireiit aussi dans foucst. siir 

 rile du Castor, des larves de nos poux. < '"est pour(|Uoi nous Ics nom- 

 mons Itk/-e'le'it." 



CONTACT WITU CIVILIZED I'EOPLK. 



Until tiK' visit of the lUossom-s barge in ISliC. these people had never 

 seen a white man, although they were already in possession of tobac.-o 

 and articles of Russian manufacture, such as copper kettles, which they 



' Arctic, Papers, ii. 1+4. " Crautz. viil. I, p. 2I1S. 



"Koyu'-ku'kh-ota'lia. T)all. Cont. Id N. A. Kill., p. -'7. ' .tourn. Anthrop. Inst.. 1«85, p. 2+4. 



>Ibi<l., p. -.'8. - Dall. Alaska, p. 28. ami Contrib., vol. 1, p. 2:.. 



' Hooper, Tcnt.'i, etc., p. 270. « ilonographie, p. xxiv. 

 • Ibid,, p. 273. 



