. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Distribution of the Population 35 number, did not reach the coast till the end of November, when they,camped on the north end of Chantry island. On December 5th they migrated across to the Liston and Sutton islands and commenced their winter seaHng, though one of the men had already done a little sealing from the mainland. The Puivlik Eskimos from Victoria island joined them just before the new year, and the two groups remained united until the spring. In the following summer, 1915, about forty Eskimos from various gro
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Distribution of the Population 35 number, did not reach the coast till the end of November, when they,camped on the north end of Chantry island. On December 5th they migrated across to the Liston and Sutton islands and commenced their winter seaHng, though one of the men had already done a little sealing from the mainland. The Puivlik Eskimos from Victoria island joined them just before the new year, and the two groups remained united until the spring. In the following summer, 1915, about forty Eskimos from various groups wandered about in Noahognik, while most of the nineteen who were there in the previous year went away to other districts. In the spring of 1916 about ninety Eskimos were hunting and fishing in Noahognik, several of whom had come from as far east as Bathurst inlet; many of them, however, probably went down to the Rae river valley about July or August. The increase in the number of inhabitants during these two summers was due to the presence of the expedition and the opportunities for trade that it offered. In earlier times there were probably not more than twenty inhabitants, for the region is notice- ably lacking in caribou, especially in mid-summer, when their skins are of the greatest value to the Eskimos. Opposite the Noahognirmiut, on Victoria island, are the people called Puivlirmiut, who wander in summer over all the country between the Colville. Fig. 4. A group of Copper Eskimo men and boys who spent the summer of 1914 in Noahognik hills and the shores of Simpson bay as far south as Point Dickens. When 1 first met them at the end of November, 1914, they were encamped some two or three miles up the estuary of the Kimiryuak river in nine double houses, houses, that is to say, that comprised two rooms each, with a single passage way leading to both. There were then 56 people, but the number was increased to 62 a few days later by the addition of two families from Noahog
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