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Southern Maidu (Nisenan) Field Notes (1928) (26 pages)
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Page: of 26
11-26-19 a
several Kessler photographeg; e.g Food, People when food scarce in their territory could get it
from another territory provided they brought goods in trade.
A group considered it had exclusive right to a territory and food within it.
Sam says his people (Nishinan) did not extend much farther than Pleasant Valley 3 miles north
of the north fork of the Consumnes river, nor much further south of Nashville : this was the
dividing line.
more foods
Poryope, [whose headman was Yeho, had roundhouse] aka? Placerville had 400-500 people
and people came from all over for big times at the roundhouse; head of White Oak Canyon
page 3: pak’an= spring (done) presumably Kessler
“Captain Tom, Sam’s grandfather, when he got old gave a “big time” at Camino, because he
‘wanted to have Sam become captain.”
“At a meeting involving more than one captain there was no distinction in rank.’ ᤀ䌀愀洀椀渀漀 was
called “Sask’ian”
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Roundhouse = Kum? =lirre hatin frtebet, fre, Wierd pl are
Marriage endogamous within village or outside, but as a rule a man.. aster of = foetseed
page 4: (presumably Mrs. K?] “There was a big ‘roundhouse at Camino “Sask’ian” but it was a
n ne or note there before
(Captain just called the people together; had say so as to whether there would be war or not;
said when to have a “big time”; notice was sent around by a means of a string of knots.”
.. “Yaman” means woods. People went up to the mountains to fish and hunt.”
some vocab ....
page 5:
Something about a medicine man making poison from scorpian, and scratching and killing his
enemy at a big time.
Foods listed with names: acorns, pine nuts of sugar pine, hazel nut, salmon, choke cherry, whild
plums, winld grapes, manzanita cider, fish, eel; wild horse chestnuts, yellow jacket nests.
“People where food was scarce in their territory could get it from another territory, provides they
-brought goods in trade.”
acorn graneries= c’hiapu”
page 6: vocab
oods} many birds, and small mammals: ground hogs, etc
irections:
south Kom’mo
north Tu/ossim
east: motto
west
page 7 more vocabulary for remarkable range of foods Ripple een %
precrrent