Athapascan Indians; Indians of North America -- California
Alton chen´-n[)a]-che
Bald Jesse Mt. k[=o]ng-kel-tel´-kah
Bridgeville ahn´-sin-tah´-che-be´
Buck Mt. nahn´-tsin´-kah
Carlotta yah-hlahn´-che
Chalk Mt. s[=a]-til-bi´
Chalk Mt. Ridge n[)e]-chin´-tuk-kah,
n[=a]-chin´-t[)a]-kah
Fort Baker s[=a]-sh[=a]-be
Iaqua region k[=o]ng-tel-kil´-k[=o]k
Iaqua Buttes s[)e]^{hl}-kus´-[)a]-kuk
("two points")
Larabee Buttes yah-kah´-nik-kah
(t[)a]´-che-kah)
Larabee Cr. slahn´-ko
Lawrence Cr. yah-tlahn´-k[=o]k
(ye-tah´-nah-ling´-k[=o]k)
Lassik Buttes tse´-nahn-tsin´-kah
Lassik Pk. ki´-chil-kahn-kah
Little Larabee Cr. so´-k[=o]k
Metropolitan yah-hlahn´-kuk
Rohnerville to-ti´-kah
Rio Dell ken-tel-cho´ (kin-tel´-te)
Scotia kahs-cho ken-tel´-te
Showers Pass s[=a]-ch[)a]-be
Van Duzen R. chin´-ne-kok (ken´-ne-kok)
Van Duzen R. mouth kin´-ne-ke
Yager Cr. yah-'hlahn´-k[=o]k
Yagerville chis-sis´-ahn´-tah
ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES
_Lolangkok Sinkyone._--The following notes on the Lolangkok Sinkyone are
taken verbatim from Merriam's notes. The informant was George Burt.
The Lolahnkok did not fight much with other tribes but were
sometimes attacked by the Ch[)e]-teg´-ge-kah of the region north of
Round Valley [Pitch Wailaki]; and they think the Long Valley people
also used to make raids on them to steal women.
Chief Lassik, whose name is often used in a tribal sense,
belonged to the Kittel´ tribe--a tribe reaching from Iaqua south to
Dobbyn Creek [Nongatl].
Chalk Mountain was only a few miles east of the boundary
between the Kittel´ and the Lolahnkok, and the Lolahnkok were
permitted to hunt there.
_Shelter Cove Sinkyone._--Trees are felled by means of elkhorn
chisels called beh-cho, and stone mauls called s[=a]´tah--a very
tedious and laborious operation. When the tree has fallen, the logs
are cut in lengths by the same process. Planks are split off from
these logs by driving the elkhorn wedges into the ends of the logs.
After several planks have been split off, one below the other,
another set is started at right angles to the first.
The dugout canoes are made of redwood logs dug out by means
of the elkhorn chisels. After the greater part of the inside has
been removed, fires are used to char the wood, which is then
scraped away by the chisels. This is continued until the walls of
the dugout are sufficiently thin. The fires are spread out thin in
order not to burn too deeply at any one place.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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