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frequently been involved in liostilities. They do n(.)t penetrate far into the 

 interior, but extend along- the coast from the Lynn to the Portland Canal. 

 Here they are bounded on the south and cast by the Nasscs and the Chim- 

 syans. We now come to the last group of Alaskan Indians, the — 



KYGAH'NI. 



= Ki/gah'ni, their own appellation. t 



= Kaiganskoi, Woriuau in Tikbmenief. 



= Kaigans, Ermaii. 



< Eijgmiien, or Kigamics, Lndewig. 



= Uaidahs, Liulowig, aud authors. 



= Hydahx of authors. 



=i Eygd'ni,DaU\. c. 



These people, which I refer with doubt to the T'Hnket stock, have 

 their headquarters on the islands of Queen Charlotte's Archipelago, but 

 there are a few villages on the islands forming the southernmost ])ortion of 

 Alaska Territory, south of Prince of Wales Island. They are a tall, hand- 

 some, fierce, and treacherous race, not improved by the rum sold them by 

 the Hudson Bay Company, and noted for their skill in carving wood and 

 slate, and their chasing and other work on silver which they obtain from 

 the whites. In Ala.ska, they are very few in number. 



The Nasses and adjacent Chimsyan and other tribes are in so much 

 confusion, from an ethnological point of view, that I am glad to avail myself 

 of the fact that they do not, strictly speaking, come within the hmits of this 

 paper. 



The following is a recapitulation of the different Indian tribes of Alaska, 

 with an approximate estimate of theii- numbers. I omit the population for 

 those exterior to the Teriitory. 



TINNEH. 



(western.) 



Kaiyilhkhotana 2, 000 



Koyukukhotana 500 



Unakhotana 300 



(kutciiin.) 

 Tenan-kutchin _ 400 



Tennuth-kutchin, extinct. 



Tatsah-kutchin, extinct. 



Kutcha-kutchin 250 



