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bay near Iliamna Volcano, (lie basin of the Knik and Suchitno Ptlvcrs, and 

 their headwaters. They bury their dead in boxes above ground, on Avhich 

 they pile up stones. They are said to be more intelligent than the adjacent 

 Innuit, from whom they purchase kyaks and other articles. They kill large 

 . numbers of the Rocky Mountain goat and use the skins for clothing. 



This completes the list of the Tinneh tribes of Alaska and the adjacent 

 territory, and we now come to the stock or family of 



2.-T'LINKETS. 



= Thliiikels of most Russian .and Gcrmau .authors. 



= Koloslies or KolosMaiis, LiKlowig, and most Kuglisb and French authors. 



= KoJouehcs, Balbi. 



— Eoloches, Pinart, Bull. Soc. d'Anthr. 1873, Erman. 



= Tliiikel, their own name for people of their stock. 



> Sifkhinskoi, Woruian in Tikhiuenief. 



These people as a whole are remarkably well differentiated from the 

 Tinneh, and have been very fully described by Veniaminofif, Wrangell, 

 Bendel, Pinart, and the writer. Of the tribes on Norfolk Sound especially, 

 the material, vocabularies, &c., are remarkably complete. There are se^^eral 

 outlying tribes, however, of which the affinities are not positively deter- 

 mined. The principal of these is the Kygani or Haida tribe, whjch has 

 been very generally united with the T'linkets, but which I am disposed to 

 so refer only provisionally ; and the Chimsyans or Nasse Indians, who 

 very probably belong to a distinct family. The Billecoola are Selish; the 

 Ilailtzuh belong to the Vancouver Island family, though both have been 

 referred to the Nasses. The language of the latter is, according to Gibbs, 

 quite distinct from that of the Tacullies or Carriers, to which Ludewig com- 

 pared it. 



The Yakutats in many respects, also, are differentiated from the other 

 T'linkets, though they belong, without doubt, to the same stock. The 

 T'linkets may be divided as follows, into five groups: 



"YAK'UTATS." 



^= Tdk'utats, Dall 1. c, Pinart, and most authors. 

 = Takutatakoi, Worman in Tikhmcnicf. 

 = Taioutais, Erman. 



These Indians inhabit the region between the coa.st-mountains and 



