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Tliey build pL'imaneiit villages, though thi-y sometimes leave them 

 during the summer, and originally -wore the pointed hunting-shirts, which 

 gave name to the Chippewyans, but which have been, to some extent, put 

 aside where trade Avith the whites or Innuit gave them opportunities for 

 procuring more durable clothing. They are fully descnbed in Alaska and 

 its Besources. The Nulato settlement is nearly extinct, and numbers have 

 died on the Lower Yukon from asthma, produced by inhaling tobacco- 

 smoke into the lungs, and other causes. 



BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY, 



1894 

 LIBRARY. 



KOYU'-KUKH-OTA'NA. 



:= Koyukiikholaiia, Dall 1. c, meaning " Koyukuk River people". 



= JunndkfwholSiia, Hulmberg, Z.igoskiu. 



= Ectlilk-EillcMii of \hu Fort Yukon Kutcbin Indians. 



= Koyukuns, or Koi/ukunskoi, of the American and Rnssian traders. 



= Covoukons, Whymper, Raymond. 



= Kiiyukdntsi, Worman in Tikhmenlef. 



These people inhabit the watershed of the KoyuMh or Koyukd'kdt 

 River, and that of its tributaries, the KuiMat'm, Kotcl'no, and KJiotelkd'hU. 

 They are a fierce and warlike tribe, and principally distinguished from the 

 Kaiyuhkhotana by being in a chronically hostile attitude toward them. I 

 see no strong differences in language or habits; but as a tribe they consider 

 and keep themselves markedly apart from the others, and, as such, I have 

 retained them separately. 



Misled by Zagoskin and bad vocabularies, Wrangell (in Baer) has 

 mingled Innuit and Indians in his account of these people. His Inkaliten 

 appear to have been considered by him as an Innuit people, though he 

 includes several subtribes of the Lowland Tinneh, and the same appears to 

 have been the case with his Inkaluchliiaten. The result is that it is not easy 

 to refer to his nomenclature of these people without giving occasion for 

 misconception.* 



These people also build houses, and occupy more or less permanent 

 villages. They seldom intermarry with the Lowlanders, and live princi- 

 pally by hunting the deer and Rocky Mountain sheep. They also act as 

 middle-men in trade between the Mahlemut and the Lowland Tinneh. 

 They do not seem to have any system of totems. 



" The same is to somo extent true of Erman's papers in the Zeitschr. fiir Ethnologio. 



