“ LEARNING THE RULES”—SHELL-MONEY. ; B19) 
_ nobody can’t go through the roof where there is no hole; but the spirit- 
man did.” 
Occasionally there is a break, and then the women contribute their 
quota to the entertainment by ‘“‘singing the garland”. First, there is a 
jingling overture, repeated many times: 
“U-we-we-toan-hai.” 
Then follows: 
Then this: 
“Ta/-lim yok’-kol woi’-a-toh” (quoties vis). - 
Hol’-li-woh yok’-kol woi’-a-toh ” (Gqaaies vis). 
The first means ‘‘The feather garland waves”; the second, ‘‘The leafy 
garland waves”. Thus they sing the various ornaments of the house in 
succession, giving a verse to each, and when they have exhausted the list of 
all the streamers, garlands, bear-skins, etc., the magician resumes. 
The credulous Paunglo paid the magician $3 American money, and 
twenty painted arrows trimmed with yellowhammer’s feathers, worth $15, 
making $18 for his eight nights’ entertainment. John, the novitiate, paid 
him $10 gold; others, various amounts. 
But now he is gone from our gaze. The dance-house is deserted and 
silent. The yokkol are hid on the hill. If any rash American should look 
upon them, they would blast his eyes. If he should touch one his bowels 
would turn to acorns within him. 
The subject of shell-money has hitherto received little more than 
casual mention. Immense quantities of it were formerly in circulation 
among the California Indians, and the manufacture of it was large and 
constant, to replace the continual wastage which was caused by the sacrifice 
of so much upon the death of wealthy men, and by the propitiatory sacri- 
fices performed by many tribes, especially those of the Coast Range. From 
my own observations, which have not been limited, and from the statements 
of pioneers and the Indians themselves, I hesitate little to express the 
belief that every Indian in the State, in early days, possessed an average 
of at least $100 worth of shell-money. This would represent the value of 
about two women (though the Nishinam never actually bought their wives), 
or two grizzly-bear skins, or twenty-five cinnamon-bear skins, or about 
three average ponies. This may be considered a fair statement of the 
diffusion of wealth among them in their primitive condition. 
