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Port. 14, Pl. 492- Otila - Maidu
Otila, otherwise Jack Franco, was the principal source of information regarding the Maidu. Born at the important village Michopdo in the lowlands of Sacramento river about the year 1845, as a young boy he experienced the untainted native life before the influx of miners and settlers proved the undoing of the Indians. As a youth he rode the range for General John Bidwell, and his old age he has spent in company with a small group of his people on the Bidwell ranch at Chico.
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Port. 14, Pl. 491- A Wappo Woman
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Port. 14, Pl. 491- A Wappo
The Wappo were a Yukian group occupying a detached area in the northeastern corner of Sonoma country. Only a small band survive in Alexander valley near Healdsburg.
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Port. 14, Pl. 489- Canoe of Tules - Pomo
In an emergency a craft even more simple than this was made by fashioning a long bundle of tules, which the boatman rode astride with his legs in the water.
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Port. 14, Pl. 488- Aged Pomo Woman
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Port. 14, Pl. 487- Fishing Camp- Lake Pomo
Large quantities of a species locally called black-fish are still taken annually by the Lake Pomo. The fish are split down the back, and after the removal of backbone, head, and entrails, are hung on pole racks to dry in the sun for about two weeks, after which they are thoroughly cured in smoke-houses. Tule huts are not now seen, the one here shown having been built especially for the occasion.
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Port. 14, Pl. 486- A Coast Pomo Girl
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Port. 14, Pl. 485- Pomo Baskets, Mortar, and Pestle
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Port. 14, Pl. 484- Pomo Seed- Gathering Utensils
The group includes a tight-mesh burden-basket for seeds, an open-mesh burden-basket for acorns and other nuts, two winnowing trays, and a seed-beater with which the seeds are brushed from the plant into the burden-basket.
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Port. 14, Pl. 483- A Coast Pomo Woman
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