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GEOEGE M. DAWSON ON THE 



A mouth or moon is named mâ-hin by the Shoo-whâ'-pa-mooh, and the names 

 obtained for the months in order are as follows, beginning about March. The meanings 

 assigned are uot in all cases certainly correct, though the most explicit I was able to 

 obtain from my informant : — 



Fls-k'ipits, " spring." 

 Pls-u'hl-a-ivhoom, "grass month." 

 Pit-la-kâl'-lai-a-hin, " root-digging" 



month." 

 Pil-tâ-pdnsk', " strawberry month." 

 Kal'-kul-tum-ah, " berry month." 

 Pilrtum-hUk', " salmon month." 

 Pil-ta-kltlahin', "mouth when the sal- 

 mon get bad." 



Pil-tloo-allfslin, " month when the deer 



travel." 

 Pil-whatl-ootlin, " month in which they 



return from hunting." 

 Pil-kwootl-a-rnin , " remaining at home 



month." 

 Pil-ta-tc'-a-kum, " midwinter month." 

 Pil-tshik' -in-tin. 



ILlST OF Two HUNDKED AND TWENTY PL.4.CE-NAMES IN THE ShUSWAP COUNTRY, 



British Columbia. 



(1.) Shuswap Names op Places on the Kamloops Sheet of the Geological Map op British Columbia 



Indian Name. 



Name adopted, or description of place on the map. 



Meardng given for Indian name. 



A-kâz-ik 



As-kôm'' 



Bôtânie 



Hei'-in-wolh 



He-mâm'-sitl . . . . 



Hî-âh'-kwa 



Hi-hium'. ..... 



Hloo-léu 



Hoom-it-fi'-lis 



Hûm-ilt-kwC'-ilt 



Hup-liTip' 



Ilut-tsat-tsl 



I-Is 



In-hâ-hôt' 



In-ka-kcn' 



In-ki-kuh' 



In-koi'-ko 



In-pa-rit'-kwa-ten 



ln-sk\va-tâm 



In-tl-pain 



In-toi-a' 



In-whois'-ten . . . , 

 Ka-ka'-kowes. ... 



Kil-a-paus' 



Kit-sa-min' 



Klil'-hâl 



Klim'-la-la-iiie .. 



Kl-ow'-a 



Kluhtows 



Kôk-]â-kâ 



Kuk-waus' 



Kwil-âl'-kwila . . , 



A-kâz-ik Mountain . 

 As-kôm' Mountain . 

 Bôtânie Lake, etc.. . 

 Deadman River. . . . 



Big Fish Lake 



Hî-âh'kwa Lake . . . 



The mountain. 

 Perpetual root-place ? 

 Circling or detour. 

 Big trout ? 

 Long lake. 



Young fish 

 Slaty. 



Hi-hium Lake ' Trout lake. 



Lac le Bois Diver lake. 



Stony Creek , 



Small lake below Big Bar Lake 



Hill on west side Copper Creek 



Old village site near Kelley Lake ] Cold spring, 



Campbell Creek 



Eighteen-mile Creek 



Mountain 4 miles north of Za-kwas'-ki.. , 



In-ki-kuh' Creek.. 



In-koi-ko Creek 



Pavilion Lake 



Red Creek 



In-tl-pam Creek 



In Marble Mountains. ■ • • 



Bridge River 



Pass Lake 



Upper part of Scottie Creek 



Edward Creek 



Loon Lake 



Medicine Creek 



Kl-ow-a Mountain and Creek 



Bonaparte River 



Shum way Lake 



Kuk-waus' or Bonaparte Lake 



Green Mountain 



ake. 



Dry. 

 Sometimes dry. 



Red. 



Deep. 



Overhung Mountain. 



Drift pile. 



Medicine. 

 Green. 

 Gravelly river. 



Spear-head lake ? 

 Green mountain. 



