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KOPA'G-MtJT. 



Syn.* = Mackcmie Hivcr Eskimo, Richardson, and authors. 

 = Eopuii'g-miiin (plunil), Dr. SimpsoD, R. N. 

 < Kang-nui'U-inniiu) , Richardson. 

 t Tarrcor-meut, Abbe Pctitot. 



The tei-minations nff and n indicate the phu-al Ibnii of the collective 

 nonn. As we should say American in the adjective sense, meaning the 

 American people, and Americans, meaning a small nnmber of individuals of 

 that race, so the Innuit say Innuit, the whole people of their race, and 

 Innuin, some individuals of that race (Yitt being the word for a man) ; or 

 Kojxlff'-mut, the tribal designation, and Kopan' g-meun, some indi^'iduals of 

 the tribe. Ko-pug comes from Kuk, river, and puk, great — the designation 

 meaning people of the great river, just as Kweekh and j)dk, form the desig- 

 nation of the Yukon-mouth Innuit, from the same roots. The number of 

 these people is comparatively few, and they are little known. They have 

 a tattooed band across the face, and occasionally travel with the next tribe 

 as far west as Barter Point in longitude 144° west of Greenwich. Details 

 in regard to their manners and customs are given by Richardson, Franklin, 

 and other travelers in the Mackenzie River District. They formerly 

 extended two hundred miles up the Mackenzie River, but have been driven 

 out by the Indians. 



KANGMALrGMtTT. 



< EaiigmfiU-inniii)!, Richardson, Dr. Simpson. 



These people live along the coast, between Barter Island or Manning 

 Point and the Mackenzie ; their principal settlement being near Demarca- 

 tion Point. They appear to be very few in number, and known principally 

 as the most active agents in the inter-tribal trade between the Innuit of 

 Point Barrow and those to the eastward. From Barter Island, the coast to 

 the westward is uninhabited for nearly three hundred miles, except during 

 the temporary summer trading excursions. One of the articles furnished by 

 them is stated by Dr. Simpson to be skins of the narwhal (Kil-ki'-lfi-d), 

 which he speaks of as being used for covering kyaks. 



* Strickland's convenient notation for synonymy, — of =, equal to, <, including less, and >, 

 including more, than the author referred to, — has been adopted here. 



