tact, and from the camps that we did not visit ourselves we obtained information through relatives and friends about every family, the number of children, and so on. In this manner we arrived at a number of 432. It was impossible, however, to find out how many lived round the upper Kazan River south of Hikoligjuaq, as the Eskimos there trade with Ennadai Lake and have not much intercourse with Image missingFig. 7 b.Pâdlimio woman, wife of the man pictured fig. 7. Eskimo Point. the others. Mr. McDill, of the Magnetic Observatory at Ottawa, whom I met at Churchill in 1923, told me that at Putahow Lake, the year before, he had met eight or nine Eskimos from round Ennadai Lake. The whole band only seemed to comprise about 35 persons. This brings us up to 467 individuals. I am not sure, however, that all the children at Ennadai Lake have been included, nor do I know definitely whether there are any families at Angikuni Lake that have not been counted. The highest figure to which the Caribou Eskimos can lay claim is, however, 500 and it is not even probable that they number so many.[1]
The result of the definite counts, arranged according to households, is as shown in the following table.[2] It will be observed that the females are in constant excess over the males among the adults, but in the minority among the children. There must be special circumstances accounting for this.
- ↑ Turquetil (1926; 419) states that between Churchill and Rankin Inlet live 260 Eskimos and in the interior about 700. These all too high figures are doubtless due to the fact that the treatise was written several years before its publication, when the population actually was greater than now.
- ↑ As a consequence of this arrangement the table cannot directly show the number of children. Adult children with own household are included separately.
