SHUSWAP PEOPLE OF BKITISH COLUMBIA. 



by several of these tribes and by other allied tribes for themselves as " the people " or 

 "mankind." (See p. 4.) This has been drawn up by Mr. J. "W. Mackay, whose 

 orthography is retained : — 



Tribe. 



Se-huapm-uli. 



U-ka-nakane. 



N-hla-kapm-uh. 



Tribes of Yale and 

 Hope. 



" The People." 

 Ka-la-muh. 

 Ske-luh. 

 Ske-yuh. 



Hum-a-liih. 



This alone serves very clearly to show the fundamental identity in languaoje through- 

 out, and the Salish connections of some of the peoples of the coast. 



Villages and Houses. 



The construction of the winter dwellings of the Shuswaps, or iTeeto/Zee-houses as they 

 are generally named in Chinook jargon, has been described in some detail by Dr. Boas in 

 his paper already cited, and need not therefore here be entered into. As, however, these 

 primitive and partly subterranean dwellings are now seldom seen, the plan and elevation 

 of the main framework of a particularly characteristic one met with in the Nicola valley, 

 differing somewhat from that illustrated by Dr. Boas, is here presented. The sketches 

 upon which these are based were made by myself and Mr. J. McEvoy in 1889. Upon the 

 main framework fascines of small sticks and brush are laid radially, and upon these the 

 outer covering of earth is then spread. From the size of the hollows marking the former 





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 Fig. 1. 



positions of houses of this kind in certain parts of the country, their diameters in some 

 instances have been as much as twenty-five feet. The name of the winter house in Shoo- 

 whâ'-pa-mooh is kais-is'-ti-kiriy in N-tla-kâ-pe-mooh sl-îs'-ti-kin. 



