(j{)6 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS. 



In conversation I have heard tbem pronounce the names of the tribes 

 Makah and Haidah, S'ma-kah and S'haidah, and yet when I have asked 

 how they pronounce the names of those tribes they woukl reply Makah 

 and Haidah. Many times, too, in collecting common words they have 

 been pronounced as beginning with an s, and in a second pronunciation 

 the letter would be dropped. After careful inquiry I have gererally 

 concluded to drop the s as the more correct. When first used by the 

 whites the whole word was written S'Kokomish. 



Thirty miles below this band were the Kolsids, as pronounced by 

 themselves (or Kol-sins by the Klallams), who lived around the bay of 

 that name and the mouth of the Dos-wail-opsh River. Their name is 

 now variously spelled by the whites: Colcins, Colcene, Colseed, and 

 Quil-cene. These three bands were not always at peace, but sometimes 

 waged petty war with each other. For twenty years, however, they have 

 mostly been collected on the same reservation, have been on good terms 

 with one another, and have intermarried, so that the band distinctions 

 are rapidly becoming obsolete. Yet, when the older Du-hle lips have 

 the reservation for tisbing they are apt to go to their old waters, and 

 the same is true of the Kol-sids. 



The dialects of the different bands formerly varied a little: Thus the 

 word for go in Du-hle-lip was bi-sedab, but in Sko-ko-mish M he-dab. At 

 'the present time, not finding it practicable in collecting the vocabulary 

 to separate the dialects, I have gathered most of the words from older 

 school-boys who have been brought up on the reservation and familiar 

 with the different dialects which are now rapidly merging into one. 



At present most of these Indians live on the reservation. A few fami- 

 lies live between it and Seabeck, 30 miles north of the reservation ; about 

 thirty persons make Seabeck their home, where the men earn their 

 money mainly by working in the saw-mill and the women by washing. 



Although the Skw-aksin tribe by treaty and language belong to the 

 Nisqually Indians, yet about thirty of that tribe, since the selection of 

 the Skokomish reservation, have moved to it and become incorporated 

 with the Twanas. They have done so because their own people are 

 scattered and nearly extinct as a tribe and because of the nearness of 

 the reservation to their old haunts and numerous marriages between 

 them and the Twanas. They use their own language for the most part, 

 but the majority understand the Twana, and the Twanas understand 

 them. 



Chemakums. — In the tre ity their name is written Chemakum ; George 

 Gibbs writes it Tsemakun ; J, G. Swan spells it Chemakum, which rep- 

 resents the way in which both the Indians and whites of this region 

 pronounce it. The whites call a prairie by this name. Its origin or 

 meaning I can not learn. These people call themselves A-hwa-ki-lu. 

 They occupied the laud from the mouth of Hood's Canal to Port Dis- 

 covery Bay. According to their tradition and that of the Kwilleuts, 

 they originally came from the latter tribe, who live on the Pacific coast 



