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 CHUKLU'K-MUT. 



= SdinuUo8, Pritcliaid auil other okliT autliuis. 

 = Tchoiiktchi Jsiatiques, Balbi, Atlas Etbn. 

 = TSski, Hooper, Markbam, and Dall 1. c.prov. 

 ? OiikUon, Wrangcll, Polar Sea. 



< Eul-h'-lit-imiuin of the Americau Iiiiiuit, Dr. Simpson. 

 = Chuk'-chi, with various etymology, of authors, erroneously. 

 > Chukluk'mut, Stimpson, MSS. 

 :^ Sedentary or Fishing Chukchis of authors. 



The name I have here adopted is probably quite local, and it is very 

 likely that the Inni:ut who at present inhabit the Asiatic coast near Bering 

 Strait have no special tribal name, resembling in this respect the people 

 from the Selawik River to Point Barrow, who have been previously men- 

 tioned. But I have given up the term Tuski, proposed by Lieutenant 

 Hooper, for the reason that I am convinced that it is due to some miscon- 

 ception. It is not an Innuit word, and these people are purely Innuit, as 

 several vocabularies in my possession testify. They are in no respect dif- 

 ferentiated from the ordinary western Innuit, except in such features as the 

 character of the country and climate compels, and in not wearing labrets ; 

 in this respect resembling the eastern Innuit. Of their origin, I propose to 

 treat hereafter, and postpone that portion of my remarks for the present. 

 They extend from the Gulf of Ana'dyr to Cape Serdze, and formerly to 

 Cape Shelagskoi. Their distribution is invariably coastwise ; they have no 

 reindeer, and hve by trading with the interior tribes, and by hunting the 



lean habit, with a coppery tinge in the complexion, nomadic in their habits, with sharp noses, and hav- 

 ing a language apparently allied to the Korrik tongue. I thiuk it probable that they are a branch of 

 that stock. They wander with their deer from the Arctic Ocean to the Anadyr Eiver, following the best 

 pasturage, and in sammer trading with the coast Innuit. 



The parties of the International Telegraph Company, during 1865 and 1866, were freqently brouglit 

 into contact with these people, and the result of their observations was that they were not dissimilar to 

 the Koi.'iks iu their habits and cnatoms, though speaking a somewhat diflfereut dialect. A few of them, 

 having lost their reindeer, have been obliged to adopt a precarious mode of existence, depending upon 

 the products of the sea-shore and fish from the rivers. The existence of these quasi-settled bauds and 

 their identification as luniiit has given rise to much confusion. No region is more in need of unbiased 

 and careful ethnological investigation than this part of Eastern Siberia. What little knowledge is ex- 

 taut, resting upon a sound basis, is too frequently ignored by ethnological writers. 



I have receutly heard it stated, by a noted philologist and traveler, that the Korilks are Innuit, 

 and the Innuit utock a branch of the Turkish race! Mr. Markham also tells us that the Tung-uses and 

 Yukagirs " have so wholly disappeared that even their names are hardly remembered ". Yet iu 1860 there 

 were existing some five or six thousand of these people iu Eastern Siberia, according to the Russian cen- 

 sus; and I have a Tiiugiise portrait taken from life in 18G5. The Tuuguses are believed to be Tatars, 

 and the Yukagirs related to the Korflks, yet Mr. Markham would make the former, among other tribes, 

 the ancestors of the lunuit. 



