360 THE MIWOK. 
in a row. The coyote flew at the beaver, and nipped a piece out of his 
cheek ; the owl jumped on top of the coyote’s head, and commenced lifting 
his scalp, and there was a high time. Every animal set to work to make a 
man according to his own ideas; and, taking a lump of earth, each one 
commenced molding it like himself; but the coyote began to make one like 
that he Had described in the council. It was so late before they fell to 
work that nightfall came on before any one had finished his model, and 
they all lay down and fell asleep. But the cunning coyote staid awake 
and worked hard on his model all night. When all the other animals were 
sound asleep, he went around and discharged water on their models, and 
so spoiled them. In the morning early he finished his model and gave it 
life long before the others could make new models; and thus it was that 
man was made by the coyote. 
Many authors, in writing of the California Indians, use the term ‘“sweat- 
house” loosely and inaccurately, applying it not only to the sudatory proper, 
but also to the public structure which I have variously designated ‘‘assem- 
bly-house”, ‘‘assembly-hall”, ‘“dance-house”, ete. Among the tribes of 
Southern California, south of Sacramento City, for instance, the sweat-house 
is made in the same way as the assembly-house, that is, a dome-shaped struc- 
ture of poles and wicker-work, thatched and then heavily covered with 
earth; but it is much smaller. It is seldom used for any but purely’sudatory 
purposes. In Northern California (except on the Klamath) the sweat-house 
is sometimes nearly as large as the assembly-house; and as it is made in 
the same way, and is sometimes used for certain religious or ecstatic dances, 
it has come to be a wide-spread popular error to confound it with the 
assembly-house. 
Following are the Miwok numerals, as spoken in Yosemite. There 
are slight variations everywhere, but the only one of importance is found 
on Calaveras River, where /w/-teh is substituted for keng’-a. 
| One. | keng’-a. Six. ti-mok’-a. 
Two. o-ti’-ko. Seven. | tit-oi’-a. 
Three. | to-lok’-o. | Bieht. | kA-win’-ta. 
af hips | aa) } 
Four. | o-i-sa. Nine. el-le’-wa. 
| 
| Five. | ma-chi -ka. Ten. na-a’-cha. 
