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Title: The Valley Nisenan Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection Author: A.L. Kroeber Source(s): UC Publications in American Archaeology & Ethnology, Volume 24 # of Pages: 20 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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[Vol. 24 258 University of California Publications in Am. Arch. and Ethn. Patwin villages on Sacramento river, in order up-stream: K’u'mpe, E, 3 m. above Le’utci, i.e., 4-5 m. above mouth of Feather. Tu’lik, E. Wo’coyok, W. From Le’utci to here, except for Wo’l’ok, the sides of the river may be the reverse of those stated. The course of the Sacramento here is northeasterly, and the informant gave the ambiguous designations ‘‘N’’ and ‘*8.”?Y6"d6i, W, Knight’s Landing, just above the modern town. Tca’t’ci, W, Bo’tok, E, distinct from Maidu Bo’tok. Pa‘ lhii, E. Riis, E. No’wisapel, W. Sa"kas, E, ‘‘ Butte City’’ (7). Kuw'ikui, W. Cii’niie, W. Kaci'l, E ? Tiitil, We Ta’tno', W, a large village. © Ya/lidihi, W. Ca’iyai’, E? Pi/dauki, E ¢ Co't, W. Lo’klok or. Loklokma’ti, E? Kapa‘ya, W, somewhere between Kaci’l and the preceding. s These settlements are not in orderly sequence for the upstream part of the list, to judge by their Patwin equivalents, but they are placed_with approximate correctness as to the part of the river’s course they lay on. Many of the names are Nisenan renderings of Patwin: Yédéi for Yodoi, Palhii for Palo, Nowisapel for Nomatsapin, K’iie for Koshempu.: The list extends to about the upstream limit of Patwin occupation. Patwin settlements between the river and the Coast ranges, not in geographical order: . t O’cli, on lower Cache creek. A’neak, above, probably on Cache creek. Pii’téi (Putah?). Woa’ikau. : Wa’ila. Tu’due. Bo’lau.° Li’wai (evidently Liwai near Winters). Yu’kal. So'skol (evidently Suskol at mouth of Napa river). Kroeber: The Valley Nisenan 4 Pi‘u’hu, Pi/whu, west or south of Aubu ; SiHo'lakeeu, near Auburn, = _. La’/kta, west or south of Auburn. -Kovkst. ry. The two first he thought Mokosumni, es Sekumni was « “in thie middle of the country that: SS TOY Oe REED 9 ; rican river. It would k (and Yokuts) terminaFevidently the infarmavit’s own herefore appear that -umni is a on, not Nisenan. The informant did not know the following Plains Miwok village hames: Yumhui, Yomit, Lulimal, Mayeman.!* He also did not recognize Ta’latui. He did know Umucha as Mokosumni, that is Plains Miwok. Evidently there was little visiting of the Miwok by the valley Nisenan, though the informant once understood some Plains Miwok. Beyond the Mokosumni, ‘‘on the San Joaquin’’ (sic) were the Koni, the northern hill Miwok, whose language was harder to understand an Mokosumni. Two of their settlements were Ce’w’a and Ca’kayak “scouring rush’’ in Nisenan). TECHNOLOGY AND SUBSISTENCE . Houses—Dwellings, hii’, were earth-covered. At Wolok, at the mouth of Feather river, they were made tule-covered. However, merican river houses also contained tule mats—either to support e roof soil, or as lining for the walls. The large dance or assembly use, k’um, was distinct from the small sweat-house, k’um-im-hii”, erally ‘‘dance-house house.’’ Both were earth-covered. Details of ek’um are given under ‘‘Kuksu Cult’’; entrance was not from the f, it is said. 12Merriam, Am. Anthr., n.s., 9:349, 1907, gives these and several othe: ttlements of the Mokozumne group of the Plains Miwok. ‘AdMDICGr Ee Nissan half. breed, in 1915 informed Gifford that they were Nisenan, execpt Umucha, which ‘was 8. Miwok. In Kroeber’s Hand-book, 444, these names are starred as Nisenan d designations of Miwok villages. The present data show Merriam to be right; Oh are Plains Miwok names of Plains Miwok villages. :