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also called aupalangaijuk (reddish) and aupalanganniusaijuk (said 

 to mean light red, more probably dull red), while one woman 

 called this colour tungajuktak-aupalangaijuk (reddish blue). 



Purple (magenta) was called aupaluktak by most, while several 

 called it aupaluktak-tungajuangaijuk (bluish red). 



On giving various brown papers and wools to be named there 

 was at once much greater hesitation than for any other colours. 

 Some failed to think of any suitable names, but by others, browns 

 of different shades were called by the following names: kaijuk, 

 kaijuangaijuk, a^jangatuk, sinanuk, sinanangaijuk, aupalangaijuk, 

 aupalanniusaijak, aupaluktakaupalangaijuk, quqsangaijuk, iviuan- 

 gaijuk, and tungajuangaijuk. 



White was called qaqotak by nearly all ; it was also called 

 qaqotamerik. 



Black was kenetuk 1 ; deep black was called kenelarik (real 

 black) and kenetamerik-merik. A duller black was called kenan- 

 gaijuk, a^jangatuk and a^janganiusaijak. 



A dark grey was called kenangaijuk, a^jangatuk, a^jangaijuk, 

 sinanangaijuk, and also kenetangaijuluatuk (probably light black). 



A light grey was called qaqoangaijuk by most; also sinanuk, 

 and a^jangatuk. 



These names agree in general with those given by Virchow 

 except that the natives examined by him did not indulge in the 

 refinements of nomenclature which I describe, but limited them- 

 selves to the chief forms together with those ending in " angaijuk." 

 In addition to the six chief words, aupaluktak, kuksutak, iviujak, 

 tungujuktak, kakortak and keinitak, Virchow gives one other 

 word " songapaluktak," used for orange and yellow, which I did 

 not meet with. This word is not given in Erdmann's dictionary, 

 but Rink gives sungarpoq as a word for yellow in Greenland and 

 sungaktok as having the same meaning in the northern part of the 

 American side of Behring Straits. 



The first interesting feature of the Labrador vocabulary is the 

 defmiteness of nomenclature for green and blue. Every one of 

 the Eskimo examined by me used iviujuk and tungajuktak con- 

 stantly and definitely for green and blue, and named shades of 

 those colours by suitable modifications of these terms. The 

 defmiteness of the word for blue was shown in a very striking way 

 by the fact that several individuals called purple (magenta) 

 aupaluktaktungalangaijuk (bluish red) and that one called violet 

 tungajuktakaupalangaijuk (reddish blue). These individuals 

 seemed to have recognized in giving these names that both 

 colours contained red and blue, and that one contained more red 

 and the other more blue. 



1 Eink spells the word qernerpoq (the Greenland form). 



