AA THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
Island), eastward, and those who inhabit the small villages between 
Point Belcher and Wainwright Inlet. These villages are three in nun- 
ber. The nearest to Point Belcher, Nuna/ria, is now deserted, and its 
inhabitants have established the new village of Sida/ru nearer the inlet. 
The third village consists of a few houses only, and is called A/tiné, 
The people of these villages are so closely connected that they are some- 
times spoken of collectively as Sida/ruimiun. At a distance up the 
river, which flows into Wainwright Inlet, live the Ku/nmiun, ‘the peo- 
ple who live on the river.” These appear to be closely related to the 
people of the first village below Wainwright Inlet, which is named 
Kilauwitawin. At any rate, a party of them who came to Cape Smyth 
in the spring of 1883 were spoken of indifferently as Kunmiun or Kil- 
auwitawi/hmiun. 
Small parties from all the villages occasionally visit Point Barrow 
during the winter for the purpose of trade and amusement, traveling 
with sledges along the land ice where it is smooth, otherwise along the 
edge of the cliffs; and similar parties from the two northern villages 
return these visits. No special article of trade appears to be sought at 
either village, though perhaps the southern villages have a greater 
supply of skins of the bearded seal, fit for making umiak covers, as I 
fa load of these brought up for sale, and in the spring of 1883 a 
party went down to the inlet in search of such skins. Single families 
and small parties like that from Kilauwitawit, mentioned above, some- 
times spend the whaling season at Point Barrow, joining some of the 
whaling erews at the northern villages. The people that we saw from 
these settlements were very like the northern Eskimos but many of 
them spoke a perceptibly harsher dialect, sounding the final consonants 
distinctly. 
The people at Point Hope are known as Tikera/fmiun “ inhabitants 
of the forefinger (Point Hope),” and their settlement is occasionally vis- 
ited by straggling parties. No natives from Point Hope came north 
during the 2 years of our stay, but a party of them visited the Plover 
in 1853.! We found some people acquainted by name with the Kuwt’n- 
miun and Silawi/‘fimiun of the Kuwtk (Kowak or “ Putnam”) and Sil- 
awik Rivers emptying into Hotham Inlet, and one man was familiar with 
the name of Sisualit, the great trading camp at Kotzebue Sound. We 
were unable to find that they had any knowledge of Asia (“ Kokhlit- 
nuna,”) or the Siberian Eskimo, but this was probably due to lack of 
properly directed inquiries, as they seem to have been well informed on 
the subject in the Plover’s time.? 
With the people of the Nu/natak (Inland) River, the Nunatafimiun, 
thes uve well acquainted, as they meet them every summer for purposes 
yovading, and a family or two of Nunatafimiun sometimes spend the 
41Maguire, NW. Passage, p. 384. 
2Tt is to be regretted that the expedition was not supplied with a copy of Dr. Simpson’s excellent 
paper, as much valuable information was missed for lack of suggestions as to the direction of inquiries. 
