. Bulletin. Ethnology. 412 EASTMAN [I can enter, and when overturned in the sea they are able to right themselves sinp;le handed with the paddle. The ornamental arts of the East Greenland- ers are neglected, except among one iso- lated band in the remote N. e. Their winter houses, made of stones and sod, are long and narrow, with family benches on one side, and can be stretched out to accommodate more people than the square houses of Alaska. The large public buildings of the western tribes they know only by tradition. The East Greenlanders numbered 548, comprising 245 males and 303 female^, in
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 412 EASTMAN [I can enter, and when overturned in the sea they are able to right themselves sinp;le handed with the paddle. The ornamental arts of the East Greenland- ers are neglected, except among one iso- lated band in the remote N. e. Their winter houses, made of stones and sod, are long and narrow, with family benches on one side, and can be stretched out to accommodate more people than the square houses of Alaska. The large public buildings of the western tribes they know only by tradition. The East Greenlanders numbered 548, comprising 245 males and 303 female^, in_ 1884, not counting a few scattered families of ui> known numbers living n. of 68° (Rink, Eskimo Tribes, 1887). The entire south- ern group of the East Greenlanders, all the pagan Eskimo of Tingmiarmiut and the other places s. of Angmagsalik, 114 individuals altogether, emigi-ated between 1887 and 1900 to Kernertok, near C. Fare- well. The villages and settlements of the East Greenlanders, past and present, are as fol- lows: Akernivak, Akorninarmiut, Aluik, Aluk, Amivik, Anarnisok, Angmagsalik, Anoritok, Aputitek, Atangime, Auarkat, Estale, Igdluarsuk, Ikatek, Jkerasak, Ilui- lek, Imarsivik, Ingmikertok, Inigsalik, Inugsiut, Ivimiut, Kangarsik, Kangigd- lek, Kemisak, Kernertok, Ivialinek, Ki- kertarsoak, Kinarbik, Koremiut, Ku- marmiut, Kutek, Manitsuk, Nanusek, Narsuk, Norajik, Norsit, Nualik, Nuna- kitit, Okiosorbik, Orkua, Patuterajuit, Pikiutdlek, Sangmisok, Sarkarmiut, Ser- miligak, Sermilik, Sivinganek, Sivingar- narsik. Tarsia, Tasiusarsik, Taterat, Tingmiarmiut, Umanak, Umivik, Utor- karmiut. (n. w. h. ) Eastman, Charles Alexander (Oldyem, 'the Winner'). A Santee Dakota phy- sician and author, born in 1858 near Eed- wood Falls, INIinn. His father was a full- blood Sioux named Many Lightnings, and his mother the half-l;)lood daughter of a well-known army officer. His mother dying soon after his birth, he was reared by his paternal grandmother and an uncle, who after
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