46 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
Point Barrow people have but slight acquaintance with them, as they 
see them only a short time each summer. Captain Smith, however, in- 
forms me that in the summer of 1885 one boat load of them came back 
with the Point Barrow traders to Point Barrow, where he saw them on 
board of his ship. There was a man at Utkiavwin who was called “ the 
Kanmi‘dlin.” He came there when a child, probably, by adoption, and 
was in no way distinguishable from the other people. 
Father Petitot appears to include these people in the ‘¢ Tapéopmeut” 
division of his “Techiglit” Eskimo, whom he loosely describes as in- 
habiting the coast from Herschel Island to Liverpool Bay, including 
the delta of the Mackenzie,! without locating their permanent villages. 
In another place, however, he excludes the ‘‘ Tapeopmeut” from the 
“Tehiglit,” saying, ‘Dans Vouest, les Tehiglit communiquaient avee 
leurs plus proches voisins les Tayéop-meut,”? while in a third place * he 
gives the country of the “Tchiglit” as extending from the Coppermine 
River to the Colville, and on his map in the same volume, the ‘* Tareor- 
meut” are laid down in the Mackenzie delta only. According to his 
own account, however, he had no personal knowledge of any Eskimo 
west of the Mackenzie delta. These people undoubtedly have a local 
name derived from that of their winter village, but itis yet to be learned. 
It is possible that they do consider themselves the same people with 
the Eskimo of the Mackenzie delta, and call themselves by the general 
name of ‘ Tapeopmeut” (= Taxaiomiun in the Point Barrow dialect), 
‘those who live by the sea.” That they do not call themselves ‘‘ Ktin- 
mi/dlin” or “ Kanmali-enyuin” or ‘“ Kangmaligmeut” is to my mind 
quite certain. The word “ Kanmi/dlin,” as already stated, is used 
at Norton Sound to designate the people of Point Barrow (I was 
called a “ Katmia/dlin” by some Eskimo at St. Michaels because I 
spoke the Point Barrow dialect), who do not recognize the name as be- 
longing to themselves, but have transferred it to the people under con- 
sideration. Now, “ Kadmi/dlin” is a word formed after the analogy of 
many Eskimo words from a noun ktiimey and the affix lin or dlin (in 
Greenlandic lik), ‘sone who has a ”” The radical noun, the mean- 
ing of which I can not ascertain, would become in the Mackenzie dialect 
kpagmapk (using Petitot’s orthography), which with ik in the plural 
would make kpagmalit. (According to Petitot’s “Grammaire” the 
plural of -lik in the Mackenzie dialect is -lit, and not -gdlit, as in Green 
landic). This is the name given by Petitot on his map to the people of 
the Anderson River,‘ while he calls the Anderson River itself Kgagmalik.° 
The father, however, had but little personal knowledge of the natives 
of the Anderson, having made but two, apparently brief, visits to their 
village in 1865, when he first made the acquaintance of the Eskimo. 
He afterwards became fairly intimate with the Eskimo of the Mackenzie 
! Monographie, p. x1. 
2 Tbid, p. xvi. 
3 Bull. de la Société de Géographie, 6° sér., vol. 10, p. 256. 
4See also Monographie, etc., p. xi, where the name is spelled Kpamalit 
2 Vocabulaire, etc., p. 76. 
