NELSON] NAMES OF MONTHS OR MOONS 2a 
Very often several different names may be used to designate the 
same moon if it should chance to be at a season when different occu- 
patious or notable occurrences in nature are observed, and I have used 
the most common terms, 
On the lower Yukon, near Mission, the following terms are used for 
the moons: 
Jannary, U-i'-wik. The season for top-spinning and for running around the 
kashim. 
January (last part, and first part of February), A-ki-luh’ st-a/-qu-wik, Time of 
offal eating (from a-ki-likh-stakh-tok, ‘‘he boils offal”), This name comes from the 
scarcity of food likely to occur at this time and the necessity that arises during such 
periods to eat scraps of every description. Another name used for this moon is 
I-ga-luh'-likh, the cold moon. 
February-March, Kup-nikh-chiik. The time of opening the upper passageways 
into the houses. This term was said ta come from the time long ago when they 
claim it was much warmer than now and when the sun began to melt the snow a 
month earlier than at present. 
March-April, Tin'-ti-mi-dkh'-lhu-tig'-ti-wik. Birds come. 
April-May, Tin'-ii-mi-ag'-ti-wik. Geese come (tin-ti-mi-tik, goose). 
May-June, Mdn-it' dn-u'-tit. Time of eggs (mdn’ ik). 
June-July, Nik'-stig’-o-wik. Time of salmon (niik'-sik). 
July-August, U-ko'-go-li-sog'-ti-wik, Time for red salmon (u-kog'-o-lik). Also, Tin’- 
ti-mi-at’ in-u’-lit, Waterfowl] molt. 
August-September, Tin'-ti-mi-dt tiv-u'-vi-dt, Time for young geese to fly. 
September-October, Am-i-gai/-gu-wik. Time for shedding velvet (d-mi/-vik) from 
reindeer horns. 
October-November, Chup'-whik. Mush ice forms. 
November-December, Ka'-gi-tdgh’-ti-wik. Time of muskrats (ka-qi'-tak). 
December-January, Chai-tigh'-ti-wik. Time of the feast (chai‘ik). 
Among the Eskimo just south of the Yukon delta the following 
moons are recognized : 
January, Wi/-wik. Fromthe game with atop; also the time of a certain festival in 
which the dancers wear straw fillets stuck full of feathers. 
February, d-gdh-likh'-lik, The time of much moon (long nights). 
March, Un-dgh-o-wik. Time of taking hares in nets. 
April, Kup-nikh’-chiik, Time of opening summer doors. 
May, Tin-mi-dgh'-ti-wik. Arrival of geese. 
June, Chi-stigh’-i-wik. Time of whitefish. 
July, Tiig-i-yik'-pik ka-gu'-ti. The time of braining salmon. (The fish are struck 
on the head when lifted from the water.) 
August, Tin-ti-mi-wit in-w'-ti. Geese molt. 
September, Ku’-gi-yutl’ in-w'-ti. Swans molt. 
October, Tin-u'-tit. The flying away (migration of birds). 
November, Am’-t-gha'-ghiin. Time of velvet shedding (from reindeer horns). 
The name for December was not obtained. 
NUMERATION 
The following notes and numerals are from the Unalit Eskimo, but 
are typical of the system in use among all the Eskimo with whom I 
came in contact, except those of the Aleutian islands: 
Kit-stchi’, count. 
Kit-sichi’-nik, counting. 
Kit'-stchi-ok, he counts. 
