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more blurred and there are now several cases of intermarriage between the two tribes. The Aiviliks now often buy lamps and musk-ox dippers of the Netsiliks in exchange for European trade goods.

With the Sadlermiut, the inhabitants of Southampton Island, the Aiviliks were also on a strained footing; on the whole this peculiar tribe avoided connection with other Eskimos. Lyon[1] writes of them: "They (the Aiviliks) hold these near, but unknown neighbours, in the most sovereign contempt, considering them as savages and as vastly inferior to themselves."

According to Boas[2] there was in former times a connection between Iglulik and Cumberland Gulf via the Pilingmiut, a group of Eskimos on the west coast of Baffin Land; of this connection I could not even find any remaining tradition.

Between the Tununermiut and the Akudnermiut on the east coast of Baffin Land there has formerly been considerable intercourse; Boas[3] refers to it as being "not very frequent". Whaling and trading have, however, attracted a number of Akudnermiut to Ponds Inlet, just as a number of Ponds Inlet Eskimos have been led to the newly established trading station at River Clyde; there has also been some intermarrying.

Stefansson[4] heard among the Copper Eskimos the name "Turnunirohirmiut"; but I doubt that there has been a regular trading route between the two peoples, as he believes. At any rate at Ponds Inlet I did not meet any Eskimo who had been in touch with either the Netsiliks on Boothia or the Eqaluktoqmiut at Albert Edward Bay on Victoria Land.

Boas[5] says that the Aggomiut, as the inhabitants of northern Baffin Land are called in Cumberland Gulf, have intercourse with the inhabitants of Ellesmere Land via North Devon. Presumably it has been roaming groups of Polar Eskimos (which here are called Akukitoqmiut) whom they met there. That Eskimos from Admiralty Inlet have visited the Cape York district and in many respects have influenced the people there and, among other things, taught them the use of the kayak, bow and salmon spear, is well known.[6]

  1. ↑ 1824, p. 345.
  2. ↑ 1888, p. 432.
  3. ↑ l. c., p. 464.
  4. ↑ Prehistoric Commerce p. 7.
  5. ↑ l. c., p. 443.
  6. ↑ Knud Rasmussen 1905, p. 26. Steensby 1910, p. 261.
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