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THE MAIDU. 
MODERN. ARCHAIC. 
Sing. so’-lin. oi’-yih, me’-lu. 
Flowering chamize. | hi’-bi. yi'-wi. 
[verywhere. i’-bi-deh. wi -no. 
Bright. yo -nak-muk-ka. win’-na. 
Level. muh’-pi-teh. yo’-nah. 
North. no’-to yu-dik-no’. 
| Kast. ko’-mo ko-mo-wim’. 
Path. bo. bo-o-di’. 
Throw. hoal’-yeh. loi’-e. 
Together. wik’-koh. mo’-to. 
All. lak’-o. lu’-yeh. 
Grow. hii’-no. bum’-bum. 
if ni’-hai. nai. 
The reader has doubtless observed the great number of forms for the 
pronoun of the first person—nai, mai'-dum-ni, nim, ni'-ni, nai-nim’, nai-nw’, 
nan'-nih, mai'-i-ni, mi’-mi-teh. 
The white goose is sacred among the Konkau; they call it “God's 
bird”. Its name ko’-i is formed from its ery kauh! They and other tribes 
of the Maidu (especially about Yuba City) make beautiful robes of its 
down. 
The Indians use the same word, yandih, in the song, to denote ‘‘assembly- 
house” and ‘“‘mountain”; it is abbreviated from ya’-man-deh. 
In the same assembly-hall where these sacred rites are observed they 
sometimes have comic entertainments which correspond to the acrobatic 
part of our circuses. It is necessary to state, however, that they are inferior 
even as purely muscular performances to the corresponding displays of civil- 
ization. Among other things the Indians themselves admit that they never 
witnessed or conceived of either a handspring or a somersault before they 
became acquainted with the Americans; and that the gymnastic feats which 
they see in our circuses surpass anything ever compassed by their own 
athletes. 
The performer in those shows is called pé-i-peh, which is also the title 
