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of the pots and lamps bears witness to it) that they "always” 
got all their supply from the Hanefaj^iOt and Puiblfrmiut, 
while we know that these tribes bought them from the Nagyuk- 
t5gmlut and others whose summer hunting grounds gave them 
access to the common source (I believe) of most stone lamps 
and pots east of Point Hope, Alaska — the KoglQktualuk river. 
It may seem at first sight that some lamps might have come 
from the more easterly, and long ago known to us, quarries 
near Back river, but in that case the Sound people would have 
received them from their most intimate friends, the EkallQktdg- 
miut, who are, and no doubt always were, their intermediaries 
in dealing with Back river. That this was so, is strongly 
negatived by the oldest now living Sound people, who say that 
formerly frequently, and now occasionally, they sold pots to 
the Ekalluktogmiut instead of buying from them. 
The Cape Bathurst people still definitely remember that 
pots and lamps were the chief objects of the trips across from 
the mainland at Parry to Banks island. The Sound people now 
occupy Nelson head at the season (March) when these trips 
used to be made, and they say it was always so. I have, there- 
fore, supposed they were the ones with whom the Parry people 
traded. The Sound people seem to have forgotten about this 
trade which the Bathurst people tell of, but this might be ex- 
plained by supposing that the trade to them was never of great 
importance, that they did not know whence the visitors came, 
and that possibly only a few participated in the trading — the 
westernmost village of those which then, as now, stretched north- 
east from Nelson head to beyond De Salis bay. Possibly, 
however, the people met at Nelson head were of the proper 
inhabitants of Banks island who acted as middlemen between the 
mainland and Victoria island. 
After stoneware, the chief import of the Kanhifyuarmiut 
was wood, which came chiefly from the same two tribes as the 
stoneware, by routes which may here be conveniently described. 
The map shows it to be less than sixty miles across the penin- 
sula south from the Sound to Dolphin and Union straits, but 
this short distance is over mountains and the Eskimo preferred 
to go around the southwest corner of Victoria island. The trips 
