The Chukchee Contents Key Map

Alaska

Alaska
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The far shore, and where the Asiatic Eskimo are argued to have come from.

1-041 gives the Chukchee name for it: Kɪˊɪmɪn. Its inhabitants are Kɪˊɪmɪlɪt, and also Yɪkɪrg̣aˊulɪt, and also Roˊčhɪlɪt — “opposite-shore people”. Footnote 2 derives the word from the Asiatic Eskimo Kīˊxmi, an inhabitant of Cape Prince of Wales, which those Eskimo call Kiˊhi: Kīˊxmi is “the inhabitant of Kiˊhi”. So the Chukchee name for a continent is built out of the name of the one cape of it they can see.

The name is wider than the entry. The page says American Continent, not Alaska, but everything the book does with the word is Alaskan, and every Kɪˊɪmɪn in the book is across the strait.

The map frames it on what the book names: the strait shore from Cape Nome to Cape Prince of Wales, with King Island, St. Michael and Port Clarence, and Point Barrow six degrees north of any of them. The Alaska Bogoras writes about is the coast, not the interior.

containsKing Island, Kodiak Island, Cape Nome, Cape Prince of Wales, Point Barrow, Port Clarence, St. Michael
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Alaska English
Kɪˊɪmɪn Chukchi
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