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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

Cushna in Historical & Statistical Information (13 pages)

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downloaded 11/26 Hock la Put sha Osh da In accs Pan tu Mon ac eno She col -Como lin —508--page number Wis e ma Wo mo te Sarrappa Hom pella Yap pa Penne wate Moa wai Ca bote lum Shen do Lu wassie Mat tuck Whee lock Onem polo Draper Oc can no Yachuno Will yo 1 In none of the tribes of the Sacramento have . found a single individual who seems to have the least idea of either God, angel, or Devil. 2 Know nothing about it; do not scalp their slain. 3 Penis, "Tche !lem;" Testicles, "Su-ig,” or "Su wig;" Female"s penis, "Pus sey;" the act of connexion, "In wock;" Female"s Breast or Teats, "Min ney." 4 To sit down. 5 Know nothing about it. 6 Nothing known of these things in the Indian language. 7 The females alone wear them. The males are entirely naked, unless where foreigners have come around them and given them old shirts, &c. 8 The whole of the stars, "Pu cu li les ta." 9 In some tribes "Shu," others "Shu shu," and others Coyote. 10 Had neither hog nor horse in California before the establishment of the missions.