which I obtained in this
locality could easily be expanded
threefold...." "Enormous numbers of water
birds still frequent the lagoon and must
have been an important resource for the
natives."

The villages of _paar_, _osloqw_, _maats_
and _opyuweg_ are shown on Kroeber's map
(p. 9) as standard towns although _kekem_
is mentioned as probably transitory and
_pinpa_ is not mentioned at all. Waterman
states that _paar_ was a town of
considerable size. With respect to
_osloqw_ he says: "A very aged informant
had never seen houses here but her
predecessors had." This indicates an early
and rapid disintegration of the village
complex in the locality. The existence of
both _maats_ and _opyuweg_ at the time of
white settlement is conceded by both
Waterman and Kroeber. Waterman thinks that
_pinpa_ was simply a suburb of _opyuweg_
since he could obtain no house names here.
_oketo_ is given by Waterman as the name,
in Yurok, of Big Lagoon. It is listed by
Kroeber however (p. 11) as a village (both
as _oketo_ and _chwaltaike_, its Hupa
name). Merriam says that _oketo_ is the
"... Polikla name for Nererner village at
Big Lagoon." Its existence therefore is
highly probable.

If Waterman is correct in his opinion that
there were originally six villages around
Big Lagoon, then all those mentioned,
except _pinpa_, may be included. For the
first five Waterman gives a total of 35
houses, or 7 houses per village. I