ld women, like
"Grannie."

_Wacoba._ "Flower of the Oak"; oak tassel, also the plume of the
quail.

_Chisera._ Medicine Woman; witch. (See last chapter of _The Flock_
for account of the original Medicine Woman from whom the character
was drawn.)

_Tuiyo._ "Shining"; very bright.

_Pioke._ "Dew drop."

_Simwa._ Applied in humorous sense, meaning a "swell."

_Padahoon._ The Sparrow Hawk.

_Tecuya._ Oak thicket, _encinal_.

_Pahrump._ Corn water. A place where there is water enough to grow a
crop of corn.

_Sagharawite._ "Place of the mush that was afraid." An Indian village
named from the quaking, gelatinous mush of acorn meal.

_Paiute._ More properly "Pah Ute": the Utes who live by running water
as distinguished from the Utes of the Great Basin; one of the
interior tribes of the Pacific Coast.

"Friend of the Soul of Man." The Great Spirit; the Holy Ghost.

_Toorape._ "Captain"; chief; a name given to one of the peaks of the
Sierras.

"The Sacred Sticks." A number of small sticks with peculiar markings.
Divination was practiced by throwing them on the ground and
interpreting the pattern in which they fell.

_Haiwai._ "The dove."

_Winnedumah._ "Standing Rock"; a legendary hero.

_Tinnemaha._ Probably "Medicine Water." Mineral spring. Brother of
the hero in the legend of Winnedumah.

"Eaten meadowlarks' tongues." Said of one nimble of wit. With the
idea that like cures like, Indians were accustomed to feed backward
or defective children with associated parts of animals.

_Whenonabe._ Bitter brush; a decoction of the bark producing colic
and griping; a symbol of disaster.

"Rattle-weed." _Astragalus_; produces madness when eaten.

"Toyon." California Christmas Berry.

"Snake-in-the-grass ... tattle to the gods." Snakes are believed to
be the messengers and familiars of the gods; therefore the Paiutes
tell no important matter in the summer when they are about.

"To dig roots before her wedding year is out." A curse equivalent to
barrenness. The work of digging roots was not performed by expectant
mothers.

"Wickiup." A wattled hut of brush, made by planting willow poles
about a pit four or five feet deep and six to eight feet in diameter.
The poles were then drawn over in a dome and thatched with reeds or
brush.

"Campody." An Indian village; from the Spanish _campo_.

_Barranca._ A bank, the abrupt face of a _mesa_. From the Spanish.

THE DANCES

All tribal or emotional occasions a