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NUNARSUAK NUNVOGULUKHLUGUK 



[b. a. e. 



Sedaru. — Murdoch in 9th llep. B. A. E., 

 44, 1892. 



Nunarsuak. An Eskimo settlement in 

 s. E. Greenland, lat. 62° 43^. — Nansen, 

 First Crossing of Greenland, i, 389, 1890. 



Nunatak. ' A crest or ridge of rock ap- 

 pearing above the surface of the inland 

 ice in Greenland' — Century Dictionary. 

 From the Eskimo language, in which the 

 word has the same form. (a. f. c. ) 



Nunatarsuak. An Eskimo settlement 

 in w. Greenland, near Ameralik fjord. 

 Nunatarsuak. — Nansen, First Crossing of Green- 

 land, II, 430, 1890. Nunatochsoak.— Peary, Mv 

 ArcticJour., 188,1893. 



Nunatogmiut ( 'mountain people'). An 

 Eskimo tribe inhal)iting the banks of 

 Noatak r., Alaska, who formerly ranged 

 the interior as farasColville r., and estab- 

 lished settlements on the Arctic coast. 

 They subsisted by hunting ptarmigan, 

 reindeer, and mountain sheep, and fishing 

 in the mountain streams. The coast they 

 visited onlyin summer to sell thefurs they 

 had trapped. They were a tall, vigorous, 

 rugged people of remarkably fine phy- 

 sique. The tribe proper had 42 members 

 in 1890, while Dall in 1875 estimated them 

 at 300. Their villages are or were Aniyak, 

 Ipnot, Nigaluk, Noatak, Nuna, Shina- 

 grua, and Tikizat. 



Noatagamutes. — Elliott, Our Arctic Prov., map, 

 1886. Nooatoka Mutes. — Kelly, Arctic Eskimos, 

 chart, ls90 {'timlier people'). Nooatoks. — Ibid., 

 14. Noonitagmioots. — Stone in Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XIII, 35, 1900. Noyatagameuts. — Hooper, 

 Cruise of Corwin, 26, 1880. Nunatagmut. — Nelson 

 in 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899. Nuna-tangme- 

 un. — Richardson, Polar Regions, 300, 1861. Nuna- 

 tanmiun.— Murdoch in 9th Rep. B. A. E., 44, 1892. 

 NUnato'g-mut. — Dall in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., I, 11, 

 18"7. Nuna-tun'g-meun. — Simpson quoted by 

 Dall, ibid. 



Nundawao ( ' great hill. ' — Morgan) . An 

 ancient Seneca town near Na])les, at the 

 head of Canandaigua lake, Ontario co., 

 N. Y. The name would seem to make it 

 identical with the ancient Seneca town 

 known to the French as Tsonnontouan. 

 Conover, however, thinks the latter was 

 identical with Totiakto (q. v. ), near Men- 

 don, Ontario co. 



Nun'-da-wa-o. — Morgan, League Iroq., 6, 1851. 

 Onondowa'.— J. N. B. Hewitt, inf'n, 1889 (correct 

 Seneca form). Tenaoutoua. — Cliarlevoix (1744), 

 New France, ill, 122, 1866. Tsonnontouan. — For 

 forms, see Seneca. 



Nunemasekalis ( Nu'nEmEasqdlts, ' old 

 from the beginning'). A gens of the 

 Tlauitsis, a Kwakiutl tribe. 

 Nunemasek-a'lis. — Boas in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can.. .54, 1890. Nu'nEmasEqalis. — Boas in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. 1895, 330, 1897. 



Nung. The Earth or Sand clan of the 

 TeM'a of Hano pueblo, Arizona. Its mem- 

 bers numbered 12 in 1893. Cf. Nang. 

 Huc-klic— Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 39, 1891 

 (Navahoname). Nan.— Fewkesin Am. Anthrop., 

 VII, 166, 1894 (Tewa name). Nun.— Stephen, op. 

 cit. (Tewa name). Tcu'-kai.— Ibid. (Hopi name). 



Nuniliak. A Kaniagmiut summer vil- 

 lage on the s. w. shore of Afognak id., 

 Alaska. 



Malinovskie lietnik. — Murashef (1839) quoted by 

 Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 475, 1906 ('raspberry 



summer village': Rus.sian name). Nunalik. — 

 Tebenkof quoted by Baker, ibid. Nuniliak. — 

 Ibid, (native name). 



Nunivagmiut. A tribe of Eskimo in 

 Alaska, occuj^ying the main part of Nu- 

 nivak id. and a small district about C. 

 Vancouver on the mainland. They are 

 a trading people; polygamy is rare; the 

 women are not fruitful and fade early; 

 children are tauglit to work, and a youth 

 is not considered a man until he has 

 killed a deer, a wolf, or a beluga. The 

 kaiak frames are fitted with the nicest 

 skill and covered with the skins of the 

 great maklak seal. Every boy from the 

 age of 10 has his own kaiak, and many 

 maidens and widows have theirs. They 

 make sealskin lines to barter with their 

 neigld)ors on the continent. The tribe 

 numbered 702 in 1890. The villages are 

 Chulik, Inger, Koot, Kwik, and Tanunak. 

 Nunivagmut. — Nelson in 18th Rep. B. A.E.,map, 

 1899. Nunivagmute. — Petroff in 10th Census, 

 Alaska, 126, 1884. Nunivak people. — Worman 

 quoted by Dall in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., i, 18, 1877. 



Nunkom. A term in local use in Massa- 

 chusetts in the youth of Rev. Edward 

 Everett Hale (according to his statement 

 at a meeting of the American Antiquarian 

 Society, at Worcester, Mass., Oct. 21, 

 1903), in the sense of 'bov-' From nun- 

 homp (Trumbull, Natick^Dict., 96, 228, 

 233, 1903), 'a young man', 'aboy', in the 

 Massachuset dialect. (a. f. c.) 



Nunnahidihi. See Fath Killer. 



Nunnepoag. A village, probably of the 

 Wampanoag, on Marthas Vineyard, Mass., 

 in 1698, containing about 84 inhabitants. 

 Numpang.— Drake, Bk. Inds.. bk. 2. 118, 1848. Nun- 

 nepoag. — Rawson and Danforth (1698) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., X, 131, 1809. 



Nunni ('fish'). A clan of the Koi 

 phratry of the Chickasaw. 

 Nanni.— Morgan misquoted by Gatschet, Creek 

 Migr. Leg., 1,96,1884. Nun-nl. — Morgan, Anc. See, 

 163, 1877. 



Nunocliok. A Magemiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage in the Big Lake region, Alaska; pop. 

 40 in 1880, 135 in 1890. 



Nunachanaghamiut. — Eleventh Census, xVlaska, 

 111, 1893. Niinachara gamut. — Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Alaska, 475, 1900tquoted from). Nunachogumut, — 

 Nelson in 18th Rep. B. A. E., map. 1899. Nunoch- 

 ogaraute. — Tenth Census, Alaska, 11, 1884. Nuno- 

 chok.— Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 475, 1906. 



Nuntaneuck. An unidentified tribe, but 

 possibly Siouan, mentioned by Lederer 

 (Discov., 2, 1672) as speaking the com- 

 mon language of the Monacan, Nahyssan, 

 Saponi, and others, and as having occu- 

 pied the piedmont country of Virginia- 

 Carolina jointly with those tribes after the 

 extinction of the Tacci. 

 Nuntaly. — Lederer, op. cit. 



Nununyi ( NumVnyl, ' wild-potato place, ' 

 from minu 'wild potato'). A former 

 Cherokee settlement, sometimes known 

 as Potato Town, on Oconaluftee r., near 

 the present Cherokee, Swain co., N. C. 

 A large mound marks the site. ( .i. m. ) 



Nuanha.— Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792. 



Nunvogulukhluguk ('big lake'). An 

 Eskimo village of the Kaialigamiut in tiie 



