PRESENT COMUBRCB AMONG ARCTIC COAST ESKIMO. 
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were, it is said, in recent times at least, usually made by the 
Sound people, and always in winter, for they do not hunt on the 
peninsula in summer, though the Hanefi^lQt do. Besides 
pots and lamps they purchased ready-made bows, sleds, snow- 
shovels, wooden platters, etc., and material for arrows, tent 
poles, and lance shafts. For these they paid with copper and 
copper implements, horn dippers and spoons, caribou skins, 
and possibly with articles received from Cape Parry. 
The second route by which wood and stone were imported 
was across the neck of the peninsula from the southeast. This 
was a summer route. A party of the Sound people every year 
hunts southeast to meet the PGibUfmlut, who hunt northeast 
from Simpson bay. Here in midsummer they exchange exactly 
the same articles as they do with the Hanefagmiut in winter— 
the pots and lamps they get from both tribes have a common 
origin as above pointed out; the wooden ware received from 
the HanemgmiOt is all of Mackenzie drift wood, that received 
from the PuibUfmiut is partly driftwood gathered by themselves 
or purchased from the AkulIakattG^iGt, and partly live wood 
from Great Bear lake, chiefly purchased from the KSgluktOgmiut 
and PGllifmlut. 
The main trade resource of the Haner5gmiut is firestone 
(pyrites), from a creek mouth east of Point Williams, with 
which they supply the entire Dolphin and Union strait, and 
Coronation gulf as far east as Cape Barrow, at least. Wood 
they trade only to the KanhifyQ5fmiQt. This they gather 
in the fore part of winter on the mainland shore in the 
Akullakattagmiut territory or purchase it of the Akullakattdg- 
miut — the two tribes camp together at Cape Bexley where 
they are visited before or during the dark days by most of the 
Puiblifmiut and by members of other tribes as far east as the 
NagyuktSgmiut. This constitutes at Cape Bexley a sort of 
midwinter fair, which probably is an ancient institution. Except 
as onlookers at this trading gathering, the Hanefigmiut do not 
ever seem to have played an important part in the traffic between 
east and west — they were not situated geographically so as to 
be the natural middlemen between any other tribes except in 
