Buckskin is tanned with deer brains, rubbed on with a stick rolled in ashes, after which the hide is placed on warm ashes until dried. It is then soaked and rubbed until soft. Wild tobacco (_Nicotiana bigelovi_) was always used by the Bull Creek Sinkyone. It was originally found growing on burned-over places and the people planted the seeds in ashes, usually on a burned place. Buckeye nuts, called lah-s[)e]´, were cooked in a basket with hot stones after the manner of acorns. They were then mashed and kneaded into dough, which was buried for a while in fine sand. Wild Ginger (_Asarum_ sp.) is called tan-nas-bos´. It is good medicine for pain in the stomach. The leaves are pounded and soaked in cold water. The sick person drinks plenty of this water and vomits. After a little while he gets well and is hungry and eats. A species of _Angelica_ is called s[=o]l. If a girl holds off, rub s[=o]l on your hands, and if you get a chance rub her neck and she will give in. S[=o]l is strong medicine. An aromatic _Umbellifer_ (species not identified) is called s[=o]l´-che-but-tah´; the root, s[=o]l´-che. It is used for purification and as a disinfectant. The root is burned and the smoke wafted around to make the house more plentiful. It does not grow on Bull Creek or South Fork Eel River but grows on Rainbow Mountain and some of the other high ridges. The root is highly prized. The Spotted Owl (_Strix occidentalis caurina_) is called kah-ko´. He is a bad bird. If he flies close to a person, the person will faint. The Dove (_Zenaidura_) is called bi´-yu. His grandmother was burned to death. Bi´-yu was asked to gamble and replied, "I'll gamble every winter; in spring and summer I'll cry." Now we always hear the Dove cry in summer. The Red-shafted Flicker (_Colaptes cafer_) is called mun´-chis-bul. He makes a rattling noise in the spring. He was told that by doing this he would make the horns of the deer grow. He was told also that when the deer became fat he would grow fat, but the people fooled him for he did not grow fat. The Yellow-bird (_Astragalinus tristis_) is called sin-sun-s[)e]-gahng-ti-ne tahs´-che, "to take away pain." If the old folks were suffering, they would get him to sing to take the pain away. The Kildeer (_Oxyechus vociferus_) is called ni´-til-yi´-che from the necklace, ni-tal-yah, on its throat. In the long ago time the water was very high and rough; big waves were coming in and the people were afraid to cross in their canoes, so they got the Kildeer to take them. He was a high person among the Water People and could handle a boat better than any of the others. The people talked about him and said he was the best and the only one to get them across. So he took them across and saved them.