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corroborates this statement. 
THE WAILAKKI, ETC. 
and probably have the English sound of the vowels). 
(The Navajo are taken from another work, 
TOLOWA. HUPA, WAILAKKI. NAVAJO. 
1 | chlah. chlah. klai’-hai. ki. 
2 | nakh’-eh. nakh. nok’-ah. nahkee. 
3 | takh’-eh. takh. tok. tah. 
4 | tenkh’-eh. tinkh. tenkh/’-ah. dteen. 
5 | swor-lah. chwé6-lah. tus-kul/-lah. estlabh. 
6 | os-ta-neh. hos-tan’. kiis’-lak. hostonn. 
7 | tsé-teh. olkch’-kit. kiis’-nak. susett. 
8 | la-ni-shi-tné-ta.| kAé-nem. kiis’-tak. seepee. 
9 | chlé-ntukh. no-kos’-tah. kis-tenkh’-ah. | nastyy. 
10 | neh’-stn. minkh’-lah. kwang-en’-ta. | niznabh. 
The Wailakki, though so obviously Hupa in affinity, owing to their 
nearness to the Wintiin, have adopted some of their customs, as scalping, 
On the other 
hand they tattoo nearly like the Yuki, so that they are mistaken by some 
the scalp dance, the clover dance, and some other things. 
for that singular people. Thus it will be seen that they are a somewhat 
composite people: Hup& in speech, Wintiin in name and in several cus- 
toms, and almost Yuki in tattooing. 
They build the common conical wigwam of poles and bark, witha 
depression slightly scooped out for a floor. One sees among them very 
pretty strings of shell-money, called to-kal’-li, consisting of thin, circular 
disks about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and resembling somewhat the 
Catholic rosaries, in having one larger button or ‘Gloria Patri” to every 
ten small “Ave Marias”. I have seen a Wailakki squaw with ear-drops or 
pendants carved from the ear-shell (/Zaliotis) in the shape of fish, and exhib- 
It is the 
only instance of fancy shell or bone carving, aside from the common shell- 
iting the glinting tints of that beautiful shell to great advantage. 
money, that I ever remember to have noticed. 
In the hot and sweltering interior of the State the Indians generally 
leave their warm winter lodges as soon as the dry season is well established, 
and camp for the summer in light, open wickiups of brushwood, which they 
