Hoffman.] 



302 [Feb. 5, 



The word Tejon undoubtedly originated with the Spanish and is merely 

 a translation of the Indian word Tiu'liu, a badger hole; in Spanish spelled 

 Tejon from Texon (Portuguese Teixugo ; Provencal Tais, taiso'), and does 

 not originate from the many depressions found in the country occupied by 

 this people, but from a myth having allusion to their origin in peopling the 

 country by coming out of the earth through badger holes, and conse- 

 quently calling themselves Badger-hole People. 



The Yawitshe'nni or Kawi'a, are called Yaweden'tshi by the WTkts- 

 hom'ni, and the following brief synonomy may be of interest. 



Kawi'a. 



Keawahs. 



Cowiahs. 



Chow-chillas. 



Cow-illers. 



Cowwillas. 



Tulare. 



Tule. 



About the year 1867, the Manache Indians, who had been living with 

 the above named tribe, returned to their "old home " in Owen's Valley, 

 Cal., about one hundred miles distant. It is singular that two tribes of 

 apparently distinct linguistic families should voluntarily unite and live in 

 harmony, especially when there are no hostile tribes from whom to fear 

 attack. A great deal of friendship is also manifested between the, Kawi'a 

 and the Panamint Indians (who are also of the Shoshonian linguistic 

 family). These facts would not be of sufficient consequence by them- 

 selves, but during the present writer s visits to Tule Agency, in 1882, and 

 again in 1884, for the purpose of studying the magnificent pictographs, an 

 astonishing similarity in many characters and figures was found, which 

 had previously been observed in other portions of California, and in 

 Arizona and Nevada, and which had been recognized as the work of 

 various tribes belonging to the Shoshonian stock.* In addition to this, a 

 number of bands belonging to the western Pah-Utes (of the Shoshonian 

 family) lived, until quite recently, in various portions of the country 

 assigned to the Kawi'a. The dialects of these bands was so far removed 

 from the western Shoshoni language of Nevada and Idaho, the parent 

 stem, as to be almost unrecognizable unless followed through the Pah- 

 Ute and its various dialects. 



Tentative comparisons of Kawi'a vocabularies with those of several bands 

 of the western Pah-Ute, present some striking coincidences, more particu- 

 larly in grammatic structure, but not sufficient to warrant any conclusions 

 respecting linguistic affinity, as the material at present available is entirely 

 too meagre. 



* For further information, see papers by the present writer in Trans. Anthrop. 

 Soc. Washington, ii. 18s3, p. 128, et. seq.; Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 

 188), p. 105, et seq. 



