The Central Eskimo / Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 399-670 Papyras Classics

← The Central Eskimo / Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 399-670

Chapter 6

List of the Central Eskimo Tribes

The following list gives the tribes of the Central Eskimo and their geographical distribution:

  • I. Northern coast of Labrador:
  • (1) Kangivamiut (George River).
  • (2) Kouksoarmiut (Big River).
  • (3) Ungavamiut (Hope Advance Bay).
  • (4) Itivimiut (Cape Wolstenholme).
  • II. Northern shore of Hudson Strait:
  • (5) Sikosuilarmiut (King Cape).
  • (6) Akuliarmiut (North Bluff).
  • (7) Qaumauangmiut (Middle Savage Islands).
  • III. Davis Strait:
  • (8) Nugumiut (Frobisher Bay).
  • (9) Oqomiut (Cumberland Sound):
  • a. Talirpingmiut (west shore of Cumberland Sound and Nettilling).
  • b. Qinguamiut (head of Cumberland Sound).
  • c. Kingnaitmiut (Qeqerten and environs).
  • d. Saumingmiut (southern part of Cumberland Peninsula).
  • (10) Akudnirmiut (Davis Strait).
  • a. Padlimiut (Padli Fjord).
  • b. Akudnirmiut (Home Bay).
  • IV. Northern part of Baffin Land, North Devon, and Ellesmere Land:
  • (11) Aggomiut.
  • a. Tununirmiut (Eclipse Sound).
  • b. Tununirusirmiut (Admiralty Inlet and North Devon).
  • (12) Inhabitants of Umingman Nuna (Ellesmere Land).
  • V. Melville Peninsula, Wager River, and Southampton Island:
  • (13) a. Iglulirmiut (Fury and Hecla Strait).
  • b. Amitormiut (eastern coast of Melville Peninsula).
  • (14) a. Pilingmiut (eastern coast of Fox Basin).
  • b. Sagdlirmiut (islands of Fox Basin).
  • (15) Aivillirmiut (Repulse Bay and Wager River).
  • (16) Sagdlirmiut (Southampton Island):
  • VI. (17) Kinipetu (Chesterfield Inlet).
  • VII. Boothia Felix and King William Land:
  • (18) Sinimiut (Pelly Bay).
  • (19) Netchillirmiut (Boothia Felix and King William Land).
  • (20) Ugjulirmiut (King William Land and Adelaide Peninsula).
  • (21) Ukusiksalirmiut (estuary of Back River).
  • VIII. Qidnelik (coast west of Adelaide Peninsula).
  • IX. Inhabitants of North Greenland.