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Yurok house on Klamath River

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Yurok Erik Loyer
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1. Sam Ewing - Yurok
2. Karok baskets The basketry of the Karok does not differ from that of the Hupa and the Yurok. The process is always twining, and the usual materials are hazel rod for the warp, roots of the digger or the yellow pine for the weft, and Xerophyllum grass for white overlay, bark of the maidenhair fern for black, and fibres from the stem of Woodwardia fern, dyed in alder-bark juice in the mouth of the workwoman, for red. Represented in the plate are the receptacle for the storage of seeds and nuts, the burden-basket, the winnowing tray, various sizes of mush-baskets and food containers, and the cradle-basket.
3. Yurok canoe on Trinity River The Yurok canoe is simply a hollowed section of a redwood log. The aboriginal implements for canoe-making were a stone hammer and an elk-horn chisel for cutting the log and removing a number of slabs in order to reduce it to the desired thickness, and an elk-horn adz for finishing the surface. The actual hollowing was accomplished by means of fire. The craft shown in the plate is hardly an average example as to the workmanship, but at best Yurok canoes are rather crude.
4. Quiet waters - Yurok
5. Fishing from canoe - Hupa
6. Yurok drummer
7. Principal female shaman of the Hupa
8. Smelt fisher - Trinidad Yurok
9. A house at Wakhtek - Yurok
10. Yurok houses at Weitspus
11. Entrance to a Yurok sweat-house
12. Modern Yurok house
13. Yurok house on Klamath River
14. An ancient Yurok
15. Bob Peters, Trinidad Yurok
16. Weitchpec George - Yurok
17. A Yurok widow
18. A Yurok cemetery
19. Yurok fishermen
20. In the shadow - Yurok
21. Fishing for smelt in the surf - Trinidad Yurok
Klamath Erik Loyer
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1. Klamath woman
2. Old Klamath woman
3. A Klamath
4. Quiet waters - Yurok
5. Wife of Modoc Henry - Klamath
6. A Klamath type
7. In the forest - Klamath
8. Klamath warrior's headdress
9. Tolowa dancing headdress
10. Klamath lake marshes
11. Klamath hunter
12. Gathering wokas - Klamath Wokas, the seeds of the water-lily, Nymphaea polysepala, is harvested in the latter part of August and throughout September. The nearly ripe pods are plucked and deposited in the canoe, but the mature ones, having burst open, are too sticky to be plucked, and are scooped up in a tule ladle and placed in a basket. After the pods have fermented, the seeds are separated from the mass by stirring in water. They are then dried, parched, hulled, dried again, and stored in bags. Wokas was formerly a staple food, and is still much used as a luxury.
13. Wokas season - Klamath
14. Crater Lake Crater lake, a body of water indescribably blue, occupies an extinct crater in the heart of the Cascade mountains of southern Oregon. It is on the boundary of what was formerly the territory of the Klamath Indians, who held it to be especially potent in conferring shamanistic power upon men who there fasted and bathed. An important Klamath myth seeks to account for the former absence of fish from Crater lake, a condition that was altered in 1888 by the introduction of trout.
15. Chief - Klamath
16. Yurok house on Klamath River
17. Klamath duck hunter
18. Klamath child
19. Thinking of the old days - Klamath
20. Gathering basket material - Klamath
21. Klamath woman
22. A Klamath costume
23. Among the tules - Klamath
24. A Klamath profile
25. A Klamath in costume
26. Klamath tule hat
27. The wokas harvest - Klamath
28. Grinding wokas - Klamath
29. Gathering wokas - Klamath
30. A Klamath head-dress
31. Klamath matron
32. Klamath canoe.
33. Praying to the spirits of Crater Lake - Klamath
Vol. 13 Illustrations Erik Loyer
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