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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-timgajuangaijuk (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, ayjangatuk, sinanuk, sinanangaijuk, aupalangaijuk, 
aupalanniusaijak, aupaluktak aupalangaijuk, 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, ayjangatuk and ayq anganiusaij ak. 
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 ayjangatuk. 
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 
definiteness 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 
definiteness 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 Rink spells the word qernerpoq (the Greenland form). 
