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3. The combination of the letters g and h is intended to represent 



the sound of the Spanish j in mujer ; ach, German, etc., now 

 expressed by the character/. In the MS., Mr. Eied wrote 

 the letter g over the h. 



4. During the time of the writer's recent investigations among the 



few Indians remaining in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, he 

 learned the tribal designations of that people, which they 

 gave as Sioqtun'. The band occupying the region about the 

 Cathedral Oaks, was known as the Smuwitsh. That located 

 nearer the coast, at the Partera, the Saq'pili'. All town 

 villages, i. e., at Santa Barbara, were called Mikique. The 

 Indians formerly living in Santa Cruz Island (now extinct) 

 termed themselves Tshuma. (In the preceding words, the q 

 has the sound of ch, in German nicht). 



5. The word, at the present time, is iu'at. 



6. Three forms of war-clubs are given in Figures 2, 3 and 4. They 



are all made of extremely hard, heavy wood, and in some 

 examples there is evidence of an attempt at ornamentation, 

 done in lines burnt upon the surface, no doubt with a metallic 

 substance. The club represented in Fig. 2 measures thirty- 

 four inches in length, one and a quarter inches in diameter 

 near the handle, and two a half inches at the opposite 

 end; Fig. 3 measures eighteen inches in length, the handle 

 two and a half inches in diameter, while the four-sided 

 head, four inches each way, is armed with sharp conical 

 points of wood projecting nearly an inch above the surface. 

 These projections are of hard wood, and are secured by a 

 socket, into which the pieces were driven previous to point- 

 ing. 



Fig. 4 is of the same length as the preceding ; it has three 

 sides, each face measuring four inches in width, with just 

 sufficient handle to afford a good grasp. 



The object represented in Fig. 5 was used as an accompa- 

 niment to the rattle, in dances. Two pieces of hard wood 

 twenty inches long, each two inches broad and a little more 

 than half an inch thick, are secured at the handle with thongs 

 and vegetable gum, allowing the ends of the wooden blades 

 to be about an inch apart. This is shaken, and makes a noise 

 resembling clapping of hands. Fig. 6 is a rattle, made by 

 passing a wooden handle through two boards, each three and 

 three-fourths by four inches in width, over which rawhide is 

 stretched to form a hollow case. Inside of this are seeds, 

 and small stones. The top is ornamented with feathers. 



7. Babbits were killed with the Makdna, or boomerang, the form of 



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