115 (The Eskimo tribes)

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verbal form (it is large) while the adequate translation into Eskimo
would require the application of the nominal participle (ending:
toq, ssoq: „which is large“). As for the rest it hardly need be
remembered, that in most of the Eskimo vocabularies existing the
flexional forms are but indistinctly indicated, in many cases hardly
recognisable.

In the above quoted communication, Kelly announces
vocabularies to be in process of preparation by L. M. Turner, which
will contain over 7000 words of the Koksoagmyut; 3000 words of the
Unalit of Norton Sound; 250 words of the Malimyut; besides the
Unalaska Alyut Dictionary of 1900 words. Furthermore J. G. Pilling in
his Bibliography of the Eskimo Language states, that J. Murdoch, now
librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, has compiled a vocabulary,
forming 132 pp. fol. of manuscript, containing 1100 words collected by the
Point Barrow Expedition. The words represent at least 590 radicals,
are followed by a list of 90 affixes and arranged after the pattern of
Kleinschmidt’s Grønlandske Ordbog. — I very much regret, not to
have been able to await the publication of these, undoubtedly important
contributions from the Extreme West.

2. ETHNOGRAPHY.

J. W. Kelly has given an interesting description of the Eskimo
tribes inhabiting the extreme Northwest corner of America, the
shores of Bering-strait and its vicinity as well as the Interior. The
following extract of it may give an idea of their mutual rivalry and
the movings and migrations caused by their intertribal hostilities up
to the present day.

As to the Asiatic Eskimos, he premises, that the Deerman
people are gradually crowding them out and almost absorbing them
by assimilation. They have lived in underground houses, but now
they live in huts covered with walrus hide.

The Kavea country on the American side of the Strait is now
almost depopulated, owing to the scarcity of game. The remnants
of the Kavea tribe are mostly scattered over the whole of Arctic
Alaska. Wherever found, they are impudent, energetic and
persevering. What few remain at home rival the Kinegans of Cape
Prince of Wales in lawlessness. Nearly every year there is a
report of from one to three being killed.

The Tigaremutes at Point Hope soon became the centre of
power. About 100 years ago, as far as can be determined, their
village on P. Hope had a population of 2000, and 6 council houses(!?).
At that time the growing Nooatok tribe (Inland Eskimo) began
pressing them. About the year 1800 a great fight took place
between them. The Tigaras were overthrown and compelled to
withdraw from a part of the country. Since that time the

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