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worn by women. (8) Shek'-ki, a hair-net, made of the inner bark of the 
milkweed, woven with large meshes, fitting the head like a skull-cap, drawn 
tight by a string running around the edge. The hair was twisted into a 
hard knot behind the head, and into this was stuck a plume. (4) Mok'-kus, 
about a foot long, consisting of a stick wreathed with red woodpecker 
scalps and having at the end a cluster of pieces of abalone-shell or a little 
flag of yellowhammer’s feathers. Worn only by the men when going to 
adance. (5) To’-lai, the mantle of black, long feathers, eagle’s or hawk’s, 
often mentioned in these pages, worn on the back, from the armpits down 
to the knees, only by men and those generally shamans. (6) Pa’-cha, the 
wide deer-skin girdle, studded with bits of abalone, worn by women 
around the waist; nowadays generally made of scarlet cloth and covered 
thick with bead-work. (7) Chi’-lak, the bandeau of yellowhammer’s 
feathers, laid butt to tip alternately, and strung on two strings; worn by 
both sexes in the dance (8) Kak'-ki, the narrow bandeau of fur, worn 
tight around the head by both sexes in the dance. Seen all over California, 
nowadays generally supplanted by a handkerchief. (9) Bon’-noh, orna- 
ments, generally made of a large bird’s wing-bones, with red woodpecker’s 
down and pieces of abalone at one end; worn thrust through the lobe of 
the ear or the septum of the nose by both sexes. (10) Wauh'-tem-hin 
(“one-hanger” or “single-hanger”), the large abalone gorget worn by men 
in a dance. The shell-money, often worn by women, has been already 
described. In the yomussi dance the women carry bows and arrows for 
ornaments. 
First of all things existed the moon. Next came the coyote, but 
whether as a kind of protoplasm for other beings or as a creator of them, 
the Indians are not clear. But it is certain that the California Indians 
anticipated Darwin by some centuries in the development theory, only 
substituting the coyote for the monkey. The moon and the coyote created all 
things, including man, who, some say, was in the form of a stone; others 
in the form of a simple, straight, hairless, limbless mass of flesh, like an 
enormous earth-worm. 
AI-KUT AND YO-16-TO-WI. 
The first man thus created was called Aikut. His wife was Yototowi. 
In process of time the woman fell sick, aud though Aikut nursed her ten- 
