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On the Eviences of Occupation of Certain Regions by the Miwok Indians (12 pages)
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Page: of 12
370 University of California Publications in Am. Arch. and Ethn. [Vol. 6
San Joaquin-Sacramento valley proper except the district between
Cosumnes and Calaveras rivers, extending to the Sacramento
delta. Dr. Merriam adds to this territory a considerable region
between the lower Sacramento and Cosumnes, a strip on the lower
San Joaquin and in the Sacramento delta, the entire valley east
of the San Joaquin between Tuolumne and Calaveras rivers, and
the territory west of the lower San Joaquin as far toward the
coast as Mt. Diablo. Such a wide discrepancy on the part of
contemporary investigators is explainable only by the scantiness
of available information, due to the almost total extinction of
the former inhabitants of the valley districts in question.
Dr. Merriam on the authority of one informant expressly
counts the Chilumne of the east bank of the San Joaquin, just
north of Stockton, as Miwok. All other evidence points to their
having been of the Yokuts family. The Bureau of American
Ethnology, both in its earlier and more recent map of the linguistie stocks of North America, assigns this area to the Yokuts. In
Powell’s paper of 1891, as well as in the ‘‘Handbook of American
Indians,’’ these people, following earlier authors, such as Chamisso, are called Cholovone; but these sources say nothing of the
linguistic affinities of the Cholovone that enables their being positively placed in any family. The material on which the Bureau
has classified them as Yokuts (Mariposan) has not been published,
nor is it known whether Messrs. Henshaw and Curtain obtained
any information regarding them, but a Cholovone manuscript
by A. Pinart is referred to. This is probably the same as an
article entitled ‘‘Etudes sur les Indiens Californiens: Sur les
Techolovones de Chorris,’’ published in some source ubknown to
the author, and with which he is acquainted only through a separate (paged 79-87) in the possession of Dr. R. B. Dixon. M.
Pinart in this paper gives a vocabulary which is pure Yokuts.?
night, tekuct tein, ahoels Sater, ities rock, eelel’y egg, Hion;’ woed, ites;
extinguish (evidently imperative), shaap-ka; the fire is out, shaap-inn-in
(showing Yokuts intransitive and present-future suffix). The last two pages
(86 and 87) of the copy available seem to be from some other language.
None of the terms are recognizable as Yokuts; an r is used, which does not
occur in Yokuts or in the first part of the vocabulary; names of tropical
animals and plants are given; and several translations in the first part of the
vocabulary are repeated but in connection with different native terms.—Dr.
Dixon that thé parepiiles may be from the Actes de la Société Philologique of Paris, but like the author has no full set accessible from which
to verify this supposition.