O ITCH I, HANUF 103 
name of a promontory on Navarino, just at the southern 
entrance of Murray Narrows. 
Yaka-shaka(a shako)) Murray Narrows. [Seep. 108.—J.H.] 
Ush kush amdk(ka ), on Murray Narrows; dmaka , the back 
of anyone; wash-mik , small of back. 
Ai kulu kunidlaku-au-en , I want to make my camping 
ground here. 
Wind quiet and not very cold, but cove mostly frozen 
over. Morning up into woods. 
Beech trees, many of them with curious growths on 
branches, on which the ‘fruit’ katern , &c., grows, that 
Yaghans eat either raw, or cooked in ashes. Ashamai-ifi 1 
‘fruit’ grows on this (like yellow katern) = oitchi {pitch). 
These growths occur on some of the now deciduous beeches. 
May be hundreds on one tree, and reach great size on the 
larger boughs. Oitchi grows only on these knobs. 
Shon-upushki , Yaghan name for a purplish shell on kelp, 
used for necklaces. 2 
Yo-kalia , Yaghan name for small hav r k. Chimango is 
Spanish name. 
Hanuf* bad man of Yaghans. Some men at Kanusakka 
on Hoste Island had a camp there. One man had a wife and 
child in the camp, and was making a harpoon there. The 
men left their wigwams, and went down to pull their canoes 
on to the beach. A hanuf saw them. The man called his wife 
to come and help him. She left the child in the wigwam. 
Hanuf came and killed it with harpoon. Left this through 
1 Ashamai-if appears to be the knob on which the fungus grows. Cf. account of 
katern on p. 64, especially footnote, and also shushgi on p. 100. Miss Hamilton 
notes the following names for katern : katun, usuf, suchipu, auchikj the colour is 
whitish-yellow outside, and much whiter inisde. She notes another fungus which 
is much more pear-shaped, of a mottled tortoise-shell colour throughout, called 
meama, ushweem, keein, or kikilosh. 
2 . Some of the specimens of Photinula crasiushayi have holes, and may have been 
so used. 
Hanush or Han-ush: Miss Hamilton, from Mr. Bridges. 
