148 THE POMO. 
together. Men now living on South Fork could impart to me little save 
bald stories of butchery and bloody reprisal. The Kastel Pomo dwelt 
between the forks of the river, extending as far south as Big Chamise and 
Blue Rock, and as above mentioned spoke the Wailakki language. They 
tattooed the face and nose very much in the fashion of that people and the 
Yuki. Mr. Burleigh related to me a curious instance which he once saw 
among them of tattooing by a brave, which is exceedingly rare. An old 
warrior whom he once found upon the battle-field on South Fork was tat- 
tooed all over his breast and arms, and on the under side of one arm was 
a very correct and well-executed picture of a sea-otter, with its bushy tail. 
Women of this and other tribes of the Coast Range frequently tattoo a 
rude representation of a tree or other object, covering nearly the whole 
abdomen and breast. 
Their lodges, implements, etc., require no description, being made in 
the common Eel River fashion with inconsiderable variations. They for- 
merly burned their dead, wherein they showed that they were Pomo; but 
what of them now remain have generally adopted the civilized custom, 
except when one dies at such a distance that the body cannot readily be 
conveyed home, when they reduce it to ashes for convenience in transporta- 
tion. They generally desire, like the Chinese, to be buried in the ancestral 
soil of their tribe. :o 
THE KAI PO-MO. 
The Kai Po-mo (Valley tribe or People) dwell on the extreme head- 
waters of the South Fork, ranging eastward to Eel River, westward to the 
ocean, and northward to the territory of the Kastel Pomo. With these latter 
they were ever jangling, and from the manner in which Indian trails are 
constructed, their wars generally raged on the hill-tops. On the vast wind- 
swept and almost naked hog-back between the two forks of Kel River, 
some thirty miles or more north of Cahto, looming largely up from the 
broad, grassy back of the mountain, is the majestic, rugged, isolated bowlder 
called Blue Rock. A few miles still farther north there is an enormous 
section of this mountain-chain almost entirely covered with evergreen bush, 
whence its name Big Chamise. Between these two points, and more espe- 
cially about the base of Blue Rock, is one of the most famous ancient bat- 
