BOAS] DISTRIBUTION OP THE TRIBES. 449 



It appears from Klutschak's own journal that this report is not 

 quite complete, and I shall therefore add those of his own observa- 

 tions which seem to be important: 



The natives who had hunted deer in the fall returned in December 

 to Depot Island, where ten inhabitants lived at that time. They 

 hunted walrus at the edge of the floe during the whole winter, but 

 did not exclusively use their old stores (Klutschak, p. 33). In sum- 

 mer Avhales were hunted by means of kayaks, the blubber and meat 

 being immediately stored for future use p. 369). It is interesting 

 to learn that a single family spent a whole year in the interior of 

 the counti-y, about two or three days" journey west of Depot Island, 

 living on the flesh of the musk ox most of the time (p. 190). He 

 does not say what kind of fuel they used. 



In Klutschak's chart of Hudson Bay, which is i^ublished with his 

 essay, a winter settlement is marked on Wager River, where the 

 natives probably lived on seals caught in the breathing holes. 



The mode of life of this tribe, as observed by Hall during his stay 

 among them in 1864, differs in some material points from Klutschak's 

 accoiint. It is particularly important that Hall found them at Wager 

 River. 



About forty Eskimo are said to have lived in Nuvung during that 

 year, while others were at Depot Island. Large depots of deer meat 

 were scattered over the coiintry aroimd the settlement (Hall II, p. 

 76) and were bnmi^ht in by the natives one by one. In the middle 

 of Noveiiilicr. after having- linislicd the work of currying their deei-- 

 skins, they cDiniiiciicfd the walrus hunt, but meantime they fre- 

 quently fed on deer meat from their depots (Hall II, pp. 103, 138, 133, 

 133). Towards the end of February they commenced to disperse, at 

 first moving southward in order to be nearer the floe edge (p. 144). 

 In the beginning of March an advance party of natives moved to 

 Wager River, where they intended to catch salmon throiigh the ice and 

 to visit depots in that part of the country (p. 149). In April all the 

 former inhabitants of Nuvung had settled on the ice of Wager River. 

 where salmon in moderate numbers were caught (p. 164), but the 

 main subsistence was the seals, which were at first watched for at 

 the breathing holes, while later on they were killed when basking 

 on the ice. 



As a summary of the foregoing statements, we may say that the 

 five principal settlements of the Aivillirmiut are Pikiulaq (Depot 

 Island), Nuvung and Ukusiksalik (Wager River), Aivillik (Repulse 

 Bay). Akugdlit (Committee Bay), and Maluksilaq (Lyon Inlet). They 

 may be ilividcd into two groups, the former comprising the southern 

 sctthMuiMits, the latter the northern ones. Every one of these .settle- 

 ments has certain well known sites, which are frequented at the 

 proper seasons. 



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