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They were tall and rather slender, bnt of good physique, of a clear 

 olive complexion, and with straight black hair, arched eye-brows, and with- 

 out hair upon the face. They appear to be not very numerous, but rather 

 widely distributed on the river, trading with the interior Indians at its head- 

 waters. The signification of their name has some relation to the glaciers 

 which are found in their territory, but I could not make out its exact Eng- 

 lish equivalent. I noticed no traces of T'linket words in their speech, and it is 

 a question Avhether those noted by Pinart, in this as in other cases, were not 

 due rather to the defective knowledge or memory of his lialf-breed inter- 

 preter than to their actual existence as Avords incorporated in the language. 



TEHANIN'-KUTCHIN'. 



= Tchanin-Kntcliiii, Ross 1. c, as applied to tbeni l)y the YiiUou Indians. 



= Ecnayini, Wraiigell, as of the Russians. 



^ Tiiaina or Tnai, Wrangcll, as of tbcniselves. 



= Kinajut of the Kaniaginut Innuit,/rf(' Wrangell. 



= Kcnaitue, Wormau in Tikhnieuief. 



^Kinai, Buscliniann. 



= Kinai, Kcnai, Kenailze, Tfijnai, Ludewig in Triibner. 



= Ougagliakniuzi-Kinaia, Kinaitsa, Ualbi, AUas Etbu. 



z= Kcnai-tend, Dall 1. e., nom. prov. (erroneous). 



= True Tlinaina, Ilolmberg. 



= K'nai'a-kltotd'iia, their own name according to the Ah-tcim Indians. 



No satisfactory vocabulary, nor even a trustworthy statement of the 

 name by which these people call themselves, has yet been published. By 

 some words of Wrang-ell's and Lisiansky's vocabularies, and by the fact 

 that they possess a totemic system, it may reasonably be sumiised that 

 they are more closely related to the Kutchin tribes than to the western 

 Tinneh. The word Kcnai I have strong reasons for believing is an Inmiit 

 word, and hence any application of it to them is eiToneous. On the other hand, 

 I cannot I'econcile the form Tnaina with any of the forms in use among the 

 Tinneh for denominating themselves as a tribe. I have some doubts of the 

 coiTectness of the name supplied to me by the Ah-tena, and so 1 have pro- 

 visionally adopted the name supplied by Ross. This is that by which they 

 are called by the Tenan-Kiitchin of the Tananah', with wliom they are said 

 to occasionally trade. 



They are among the least known of the tribes which reach the sea- 

 coast. They are said to occujoy the Kenai Peninsula on its northwest side 

 from Chugachik Bay to its head, and the shores opposite as far south as the 



