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fiom their neighbours on the Mackenzie.* Of the latter we 

 possess considerable information, which has been collected and 

 published together with a somewhat extensive vocabulary by Father 

 Petitot,+ the distinguished mis.sionary to these inhabitants of the far 

 noith of our country. Passing the Eskimo of Cape Bathurst, the 

 Innuit population of Alaska next engages our attention. Alaska 

 having previous to its purchase by the United States, been a Russian 

 province, there necessarily is in Kussian archives and in the writings 

 of Russian travellers and explorers a con.siderable stock of inform- 

 ation regarding its inhabitants, but what of this is of greatest value 

 has been extracted by German, French and English writers upon the 

 subject. Waitz| divides the Alaskan Eskimo (including the Kadiak) 

 into thirteen dialects. The far western Eskimo (inclinling those of 

 N.E. Asia) are arranged by W, H. Dall § as follows: — 1. Asiatic 

 Eskimo or Yuit (a corruption of Innuit), in the extreme N. E. of 

 Siberia, migi-ating with the seasons from Cape Olintorsk to East Cape, 

 the most northern village being at the latter point. They are known 

 also as Chuklukmut, Namollo and Tchukchi. At East Cape they are 

 called Nogwunmut. They ai'e divided into the Tchukchi of the Ana- 

 dyr, and those on the Tchutskoi Nos, or Tchuktchi Promontory. 

 II. North- Western Inmiit, (1) Kopagmut or Kupungmun, the name 

 of the people of the Mackenzie River as called by the natives at 

 Point Barrow ; (2) Kangmaligmut or Kungmudling, of the Colville 

 River; (3) Nuwukmut or Nuwungnmn (i.e. i)eoi)le of the point), the 

 name of the Eskimo of Point Barrow ; (4) Nunatogmut or Nunatan- 

 miun, the people of the River Nunatok ; (5) Kuagmut or Kawngniiit 

 (including the Selawigniut on Lake Selawik) on the Kuak or Kowak 

 River. III. The Island Innuit, { i) the Imahklimut or people of Big 

 Diomede Island; (2) Ingulikhmut on Little Diomede Island ; (3) 

 Shiwokugmut or Kikhtogmut on St. Lawrence Island, the.se number 

 about 150 souls. The Ingulikhmut scarcely number 40 persons. 

 IV. The Weste n Innuit, (1) Kaviagmut (including the Kingigemut 

 of Cape Prince of Wales), inhabiting the jieninsula betwetn Kotzebue 

 and Norton Sounds, called by them Kaviak ; (2) Mahlemut, ocenpying 

 the neck of land between Kotzebue Sound and Norton Bav, thev 



*McFarlane Esk. of Anderson's R. (Hind, Trav. in Interior of Labrador, i., p. 25s). 

 t Vocab. Franf-ais-Esquim., 1875. 

 ♦ Anthropoloj^ie iii., S. 301. 



§ Vice-Pres. Address Sect. H. Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., Aug. 1885., p. 377. See also Dall. On 

 Distrib. of Native Tribes of .\laska, Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Salem, Aug. 18G9, pp. 263-73. 



