The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of CaliforniaCook, Sherburne Friend
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The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California
Cook, Sherburne Friend
Indians of North America -- California; Indians of North America -- Statistics
23. tawchter P There is some confusion about these three
places. Kroeber shows (map, p. 9)
_rliiken-pets_ as a place occupied
intermittently, but does not mention
_howego_ or _tawchter_. The first
(_rliiken-pets_) is stated by Waterman to
have been the "site of a small settlement"
where informants recalled 2 houses and a
sweathouse. In the summer the people went
to _howego_ to camp and fish. On p. 237
_howego_ is described as a "flat" with no
houses mentioned, but on p. 207 Waterman
says: "_howego_ ... is a well known place
... but was not described to me as a town.
Apparently there is an old town site there
... whose existence I did not hear of when
on the spot." Further evidence lies in the
fact that the place is shown on the map by
Randall (p. 206) under the name of
_Herwahgah_.
Merriam lists _rliiken-pets_ as _oleeken_
and says that it is a "former village ...
about 3 miles below Blue Creek ... named
from Oleeken Bar, at the upper end of
which it is located." On his "Geographic
List" of Yurok villages he describes
_Hawwagah_ as an "old camp" but on his
later list entitled "Polikan (Yurok)
Tribes, Bands and Settlements" he has
interpolated in ink "former village."
_Tawchter_ he describes as a "village on
north bank of Klamath right across from
_Hawwagah_."
The weight of the evidence favors
certainly two and probably three villages.
Waterman ascribes (p. 207) 2 houses to
_rliiken-pets_, to which may be added
another 2 for _tawchter_. Across the river
_howego_ may also have had 4 houses.
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