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KilOsiktogmlut. This is really no indication of what names 
may exist in that district. The people of western Coronation 
gulf travel little and the second tribe from them in any direction 
is likely to give its name to all beyond. (A striking parallel 
case is found in Alaska, where a small, never important, and 
now nearly extinct tribe, the Nunatagmiut, has given its name 
to a dozen more important tribes and now appears in their 
place on ethnological maps and the census schedules of the 
United States government. I have talked with hundreds 
who are called Nunatagmiut, and have found only three who 
are Nunatagmiut). 
(2) The Ekalluktogmlut, Albert Edward bay; central Victoria 
island. 
The Ahmgmlut, Ogden bay ( ?) ; inland towards^ Back 
river and to the Akilinik river. 
The Kaernermlut or Kainermlut, Back River inland at all 
seasons. 
It will be noticed that as to the geographic distribution 
of the tribes, there is a blank in our information for the south 
coast of Victoria island from Mackenzie river to Albert Edward 
bay. This district is said to be everywhere populated, but my 
informant knew no name for the population other than Kllusik- 
tO^Iut. There are also sure to be several tribes between 
Gray bay and Ogden bay on the mainland, though I could find 
out only the one — Uminmfiktogmiut. Banks island is unpeopled 
in summer, for it was depopulated by a series of famines, the 
last of which took off the last few survivors about fifteen years 
ago. There are no people any longer north of Minto inlet on 
the west coast, and there may never have been any on the north 
coast, for so the Prince Albert Sound people believe. It is 
doubtful if there are inhabitants on the east coast of Victoria 
island north of Albert Edward bay. 
We have now named, and located to the best of our present 
ability, the tribes whose natural resources and trade activities 
are to be discussed. The treatment is based on information 
secured on the mainland between Cape Bexley and Gray bay, 
and in southwestern Victoria island, between May 13, 1910, 
and May 17, 1911. For the first three months spent with 
