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Ic), or from Thetis Baj^ to Fot])oy Bay (Cojazzi, 100), or apparently 

 from Polycarp Cove as far west as Moat Bay (Th. Bridges, b, Oct. 1, 

 1886, 217) — was the home of the Manekenkn. 



Dr. Segers (81) divided the Onas into six su])tribes: the Parri- 

 quens. Sheila, and Uenenke from San Sebastian Bay to Cape vSmiday, 

 and the Kau-ketshe, Koshpijom, and Loualks from Cape Penas to 

 the Straits of Lemaire. These names are, however, according to 

 Mr. Lucas Bridges (Lehmann-Nitsche, d, 233), not tribal but local 

 names. Senor Lista's northern and southern Onas are, to judge 

 from the respective habitats and vocabularies he gives, no other 

 than the Shilk'nam and Manekenkn (Lista, d, 82, 144-145). 



The Rev. Mr. Bridges (&, Oct. 1, 1884, 223; also cited in Hyades, I, 

 718) was the first to state that "the Western Onas scarcely under- 

 stand the Eastern Onas." It is to his sons, especially Lucas, that 

 we owe most of the published material on the Manekenkn, although 

 some independent investigation was carried on by Prof. Tonelli 

 (Cojazzi, 100) and Prof. Furlong (k). Dr. Fred. Cook mentioned 

 this people in 1900 (b, 725), Col. Holdich in 1904 (160), and since 

 then several other writers. 



Prof. Furlong gathered six Manekenkn words, and more recently 

 Dr. Lehmann-Nitsche has published (d, 242-276) 97 Manekenkn 

 words from Mr. Lucas Bridges' manuscript vocabulary. A compari- 

 son of this material with the Ona vocabulary of Dr. Segers and with 

 the southern Ona one of Seiior Lista shows pretty clearly that both 

 these explorers were in contact in the south with the Manekenkn. 

 About a dozen words in each list can be identified as Manekenlai 

 rather than Shilk'nam. Senor Lista's "southern Ona" list is perhaps 

 entirely Manekenkn. 



Further, it is very probable that the earlier voyagers, the Nodals 

 in 1619, Father Labbe in 1711, the members of Capt. Cook's first 

 expedition in 1769, as well as some of the early nineteenth century 

 explorers such as Admiral Fitz-Roy and Mr. Danvin, Admiral 

 Wilkes and others, were really in contact with the Manekenkn 

 dm-ing their brief visits to Good Success and Valentyne Bays, as 

 these bays are situated in what was a few years ago Manekenkn 

 territory. In one case at least the evidence is somewhat more 

 positive. Sir Joseph Banks (60) gives two words taken from Good 

 Success Bay Indians. One of these words, ooudd, "water," is 

 evidently the same as ootun the Manekenkn word for "water" in 

 Mr. Lucas Bridges' vocabulary; the Shilk'nam word is chooen, chook, 

 chooen, cJio^v'n; Senor Lista, it is true, and Dr. Segers both give oten, 

 but their vocabularies are, as observed above, largely Manekenkn 

 (of. Lehmann-Nitsche, d, 250). 



Dr. Cojazzi (102-104) and Father Beauvoir (h, 171-173) pubhsh 

 vocabularies gathered from a Manekenkn woman about 35 to 40 years 



