208 On Certain Aboriginal Implements [March, 



Of number one but two specimens were found ; number two is 

 another exceedingly rare form, of which the specimen figured is 

 the most perfect, only three or four fragments of this, in addition 

 to that figured, were detected. Mr. Roach obtained a single speci- 

 men rather more complete than the above. This form, which is 

 scarcely met with in most California collections, presents the very 

 highest skill in arrow-making art. Number three is perhaps the 

 most abundant form, while four, five and six are numerous ; 

 seven is also seldom met with, and is very delicately and nicely 

 worked. 



A single bead was detected by Mr. Roach at station C. At 

 this southerly station the mortar (Fig. i) was found. 



The general region herein referred to must have been a para- 

 dise to the red man, so far as his needs and aboriginal comfort 

 are concerned. Acorns of several species of oaks, pine nuts, 

 hazel nuts and manzanita berries were probably as abundant in 

 former times as now, and it is altogether probable that game of all 

 kinds was far more abundant than at the present day ; in fact all 

 of the requisites for the sustentation of a numerous aboriginal 

 population. 



If the community which existed here was at 



aesthetic perceptions, the scenery must have added largely to the 



As to the particular tribe which constituted that community, I 

 have been unable to learn. 



Since this mountain valley became the property of the present 

 owner, I was informed by his wife, that a few years ago there 

 came along, one day, an old Indian, who told her that when he 

 was a boy he lived here with his tribe, and he had now come 

 back to see once again the place where his childhood was passed. 

 " He went up and away over the hills." 



Stephen Powers, 1 in his " Contributions to North American 

 Ethnology," places this region within the geographical area of 

 the Wintuns, one of the great groups of Northern Californian 

 Indians, which included numerous tribes. I would particularly 

 call the attention of all interested in this line of inquiry, to this 

 important and interesting volume. 



The nearest adjacent tribes were the Napas, the Caymuses, the 

 Calajomanas, the Mayacomas, the Ulucas and the Mutistals. 2 



: U. S. Geog. and Geol. Survey, Powell, Vol. in, text and map. 

 2 Baacruft's Native Races of the Pacific States, Vol. I, p. 363. 



