266 PROCKKDiNGS OF THE CANADIAN INSI'ITUTE. 



The following is the list of the tribes known to the Tchiglit or 

 Mackenzie River Eskimo, and their Eskimo desigtiations as given by 

 Father Petitot.' (1) Piktormeut [the inhabitants of (the country of) 

 powdery snow], a tiibe on the other side of Behring's Straits. The 

 locality they inhabit is called Pirktork (la pondrerie) ; (2) Nater- 

 valinet, the inhabitants of Naterovik, the Pixssian post at the 

 Mikaelowski redoubt ; (3) The Tuyormiyat, or the inhabitants of 

 Behring's Straits. Their country is called Tchikreneielerk i 

 (4) Apkwameut (the enclosed, sedentai-y people.) The Tchukatchis 

 of Kotzebue Sound. Their locality is called Kranik (la neige 

 etoilee). From these the Tchiglit of the Mackenzie have ol>tained 

 the kind ot boots called apkwameortok ; (5) Nunatagmeut, or 

 those who live at Nunatagniun, towards the strait. This 

 region is al.so called Tchikreynerk kagvirartchiueik (the sun 

 shows the end of its nose) ; (6) Nuvungnieut, the inhabitants 

 of the Cape; in the i-egion around Cape Lisbon; (7) Akilliueinient. 

 the inhabitants of Akillinerk, between Cape Lisbon and Icy Cape ; (8) 

 Tareormeut (the people on the sea), from Herschell Island to Liver- 

 pool Bay, and in the mouths of the Mackenzie; (9) Kamalit, or Eskimo 

 of Anderson River ; (10) Kragmaliveit, inhabitants of Ca})e Batliurst : 

 (11) Kravanartat (people of the east); this appellation is rather 

 vague and designates all the Eskimo between Franklin Bay and the 

 Copper River, or even Melville Peninsula; (12) Anenerit or Innuit 

 of the great east; a still moi-e generic n'Bme applied to all the Eskimo 

 of Hudson's Bay, Labrador, and Greenland; (13) Krikertalormeut 

 (the people of the isles), under this name are comprised all the Eskimo 

 of the lands in the Polar Sea. Besides these there are the following 

 names of tribes of the Central Eskimo, not known to the Tchiglit, 

 but belonging to the people of Liverpool Bay : (14) Kroleyloreut (the 

 peo))le of the Reindeer Mountains), east of the Mackenzie; (15) 

 Naggiuk-torm^ut (the people of horns), at the mouth of the Copper 

 River; (16) Kanerm^ut (the people among the white partridges), to 

 the east of Cape Alexander; (17) Utkut^ikialin-meut, (the peoj)le 

 who use stone kettles), on the shores of Boothia Gulf; (18) Ahak- 

 naiielet (the silly women, les femmelettes), in the region of Repulse 

 Bay. 



The best brief classification of the whole Eskimo stock is that of 

 Dr. Rink, which is as follows : 



1. Loc. cit., Monographie, p. x-xi. 



