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ANIMAL NAMES AND ANATOMICAL TEEMS OF THE GOSHUTE INDIANS. 

 BY RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN. 



The Indians commonly known as Goshutes represent a tribe of the 

 great Shoshone family, now much reduced in numbers. At this time 

 the remnant of the tribe is gathered principally in two colonies, one 

 located in Skull Valley, Utah, and the other across the desert in Deep 

 Creek (Ibapah), near the Utah-Nevada border. Permanent camps 

 existed in these same places long before the advent of white settlers. 

 The Indians of these two colonies had a single tribal organization, the 

 last recognized chief of which, Ta'bi by name, died a number of years 

 ago. 



The Indians that formerly held possession of the region from Salt 

 Lake Valley to Weber Valley were close in language and customs to 

 the Goshutes proper; but they had a distinct tribal organization. 

 Their last chief, named Goship, is said to have been buried south of 

 Salt Lake City, near the present site of the State Prison. According 

 to the statement of survivors of this band, in the days of Goship's 

 prime, when he seems to have been renowned as a war-chief, his fol- 

 lowers numbered some thousands. Beginning with the advent of the 

 Mormon pioneers, however, a rapid decrease in this band occurred, so 

 much so that in a surprisingly few years it was practically extinct. The 

 principal agency in this decimation w^as certain diseases, brought by the 

 whites, to which the natives had never before been exposed , and to which, 

 as a consequence, they had acquired no special resistance. They died off, 

 it is said, by the hundreds. Almost overnight an entire camp would be 

 swept free of every living soul. In 1848, for example, an epidemic of 

 measles broke out among them. Ignorant of the proper treatment of 

 the disease, and not knowing whence it came, many assembled at the 

 Warm Springs north of Salt Lake City, and sought relief by bathing in 

 these waters. They died off in large numbers, as many as forty being 

 heaped in a single grave. The few individuals that now survive from 

 a once proud tribe have taken up their abode with neighboring tribes 

 and bands. The Goshutes proper, in the valleys to the west, also 

 suffered strong reduction. 



The languages of the Goshutes and of the Goships,.as we may con- 

 veniently and in accordance with their own usage designate the Indians 



