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KNAKATNUK KNIVES 



717 



Tnai.— Ball in Cont. N. A. EthnoL, i, 35, 1877. 

 Tnaina.— Wrangell in Baer and Helmerien, Bei- 

 triige, I, 103, 1839 (derived from tnai, 'man'). 

 Tnaina Ttynai.— Baneroft. Nat. Races, I, 116, 1874. 

 True Thnaina. — Holmberg quoted by Ball, Alaska, 

 430, 1S7U. 



Knakatnuk. A Knaiakhotana village 

 and trading post of 35 natives in 1880 on 

 the w. side of Knik bay, at the head of 

 Cook inlet, Alaska. 



Knakatnuk.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 29, 

 1884. Knik Station.— Post route map, 1903. 



Knatsomita {Kndts-o-mi^-ta, 'all crazy 

 dogs'). A society of the Ikunuhkahtsi, 

 or All Comrades, in the Piegan tribe; it 

 is composed of men about 40 years of 

 age. — Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 

 221, 1892. 



K'nick K'neck. See Kinniklnnich. 



Knik (Eskimo: 'fire,' a name given by 

 the Eskimo of Kodiak because, having 

 no seaworthy boats of their own, they 

 signaled for other tribes across the bay to 

 send aid) . A Knaiakhotana settlement of 

 several villages on Knik r., at the head 

 of Cook inlet, Alaska. The chief village 

 had 46 people in 1880 (Petroff, 10th Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 29, 1884); in 1900 the pop- 

 ulation was 160 in 31 houses. This l)ranch 

 of the tribe numbers altogether Ijetween 

 200 and 300, who obtain their subsistence 

 by hunting and trapping and by barter- 

 ing with the Ahtena, who bring fur skins 

 over the divide between Knik and C^)pper 

 rs. every winter and stay weeks or months 

 with the Knik, who through this trade 

 obtain the clothing, utensils, and even 

 luxuries of the Avhites. Their houses are 

 built above ground of logs tightly calked 

 with moss and covered with bark (11th 

 Census, Alaska, 70, 1893). They use the 

 birch-bark canoe on the inland rivers, 

 but purchase skin bidarkas of the Kenai 

 oi- Nikishka people to fish and travel 

 along the coast. 



Kinik. — Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, map, 1884. 

 Kinnick. — Petroff, ibid., 39. K'niq'-a-mut. — Hoff- 

 man, Kadiak MS., B. A. E., 1882. 



Knives. Cutting tools are indispensable 

 to j)rimitive men, and the greatest in- 

 genuity was exercised l>y the northern 

 tribes in their manufacture. P]verv ma- 



WOMAN'S SLATE KNIFE (uLu); ESKIMO (1-4). (muRDOCH) 



terial capable of taking and retaining an 

 edge was utilized — wood, reed, bone, ant- 

 ler, shell; stone, and metal. Teeth ai'e 

 nature's ''utting tools, and the teeth of 

 animals (shark, beaver, etc.) were much 

 employed by primitive men, as also were 

 sharp "bits of stone and splinters of wood 

 and bone, tiie natural edges of which 



were artificially sharpened, and natural 

 forms were modified to make them more 

 effectual. The uses of the knife are in- 

 numerable; it served in war and was in- 



dispensable in every brancli of the arts 

 of life, in acquiring raw materials, in pre- 

 paring them for use, and in shaping 

 whatever was made. Knives served also 



JASPER Blade, s 3- 

 long; Califor 

 (wilson) 



ELED Edge ( 1-2 ) ; Okla- 

 homa, (holmes) 



(i-2)i 



Tennessee 



in symbolism and ceremony, and one of 

 the most cherished symbols of rank and 

 authority was the great stone knife 

 chipped with consuuunate skill from ob- 



