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little one played while alive, or to the spot where its body was burned, and 
milks her breasts into the air. This is accompanied by plaintive mourning 
and weeping, and piteous calling upon her little one to return, and some- 
times she sings a hoarse and melancholy chant, and dances with a wild, 
eestatic swaying of her body.. 
The one great charm and panacea of the Yckaia physician or powwow 
is a stuffed lizard, while his Ausculapian robes are a mantle of black eagle’s 
tail-feathers and a gaudy plume of the same. Equipped with the one and 
panoplied in the others, he pirouettes, curvets and prances around the 
patient, brandishing the lizard aloft, with many wild and lunatic whoops 
and crooning chants; now dancing swiftly up to him, then backward away 
from him, to draw out the evil spirits. Then he stoops down and waves 
the lizard over him with countless motions, gradually advancing from the 
body to the extremities of the limbs as if thus driving out the devil at his 
fingers’ ends. 
In Coyote Valley I saw some of this tribe motu proprio cultivating a 
little garden of corn which belonged to themselves. They employ neither 
plow nor hoe, but the squaws sit sheer down on the ground beside the hills, 
and work probably fifteen minutes at each one, digging up the earth deep 
and rubbing it all up fine in the hands. By this means they can till only 
an extremely small crop, but they do it excellently well and get a greater 
yield than Americans would. 
Following is a table of numerals, showing how the Pomo language 
changes as one comes down Russian River. The first column was taken at 
Cahto, the second at Ukiah, the third at Sanel, the fourth at Healdsburg: 
1 | cha. | ta-ro ta-to. | chah. 
DW ACO: ka. | ko. | 4-ko. 
3 | sib’-bo. sib’-bo. | sib’-bu. | mi-sib’-bo. 
4 | tak. | du-ha. du-ko. mif-tah. 
5 | shal. nd-twi. na-to. | tu-sbuh. 
6 | fA-deh. ts4-deh. tsd-deh. _ Jan’-kah. 
7 | ké-pa. hoi’-nait. ké-i-naz _ lat’-ko. 
8 | ké-wal. _ ké-go-dol. | k6-go-dol. ko-mi-tah. 
9 | shal’-shal. nem’-go-shun. | nt-mo-shun. cha-ko. 
10 | sa-la. nem’-po-tek. — na-va-ko-tek. | cha-sti-to. 
