oreqw. At least two houses and a sweathouse stood here and I think originally there may have been more." In view of Waterman's positive assertion the existence of the village may be admitted.

66. hrgwrw C P. 265. "One informant said there were seven houses and two sweathouses." 67. tsahpekw C P. 265. "Eleven house names were obtained." 68. tsotskwi C P. 265. "An important Indian village stood here, but has not been inhabited since more than a generation ago.... One informant remembered having seen twelve houses and two sweathouses here." 69. paar C See no. 75. 70. osloqw C See no. 75. 71. kekem P See no. 75. 72. maats C See no. 75. 73. opyuweg C See no. 75. 74. pinpa D See no. 75. 75. oketo P Pp. 265-266. These villages were located on Big Lagoon. The latter "... was a center of population. At least six inhabited sites were to be found about its shores...." At the same time Waterman admits that his notes were scanty and contradictory. "Undoubtedly the list of place names 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. If the same ratio is used, 7 houses may be assigned to oketo, making in all 42. 76. olem P P. 267. Waterman considers this a camp site but Merriam in his list of Yurok villages states it as "... Nererner name for their village at Patrick's Point." To assign 3 houses is probably adequate. 77. tsurai C P. 271. No question. 78. srepor C P. 272. Some informants told Waterman that there were 4 houses and a sweathouse. On permanency of habitation he has no information. Kroeber on his map shows the site as a transitory village (p. 9) but on p. 113 he mentions Little River "... at whose mouth stood the Yurok town of Metskwo (srepor)." Merriam also mentions Matskaw, a "village at mouth of Little River, on north side ..." Its aboriginal existence may therefore be taken as at least highly probable.

TABLE 2

Numbers of Houses

The figures in the first column are for village sites as listed in table 1. Sources: R, Randall's map; 1. Waterman's list (1920. p. 206); t. Waterman's text (1920); M. Merriam's village lists; p, an estimate.

No.	Source	House Count		Kroeber, "modern memories"		Kroeber, 1852 census
1	l	7
2	t	4
3	l	25		23+		22+
4	l	9
5	tp	3
6	tp	3
7	Mp	3
8	Mp	3
12	l	4
13	l	4		9		6
14	l	3		2		2
15	Mp	8
17	Mp	3
18	l	5		5		2
19	t	8		8+		14
20	Rp	3
21	lp	4
22	Rp	4
24	l	3
25	t	4
26	t	2
27	Mp	3
28	Mp	3
29	l	3		3		4
30	tp	3
32	l	4		13		7
33	l	13
34	l	22		18		24
35	l	24		17+		20
36	l	4		4		3
37	l	5		6		7
38	Mp	3
39	Mp	3
40	l	6		7		6
41	tp	5
42	l	3		4		4
43	tp	6
44	l	4		21		14
45	l	11
45	l	8		14		6
47	l	4
48	l	6
49	l	5
50	l	3
51	l	1
52	l	2
53	l	4
54	l	6
55	l	17
56	l	6
57	l	5
58	l	4
59	l	2
60	l	3
61	l	7
63	l	7
65	t	2
66	l	5
67	l	10
68	l	5
69	tp	5
70	tp	3
71	t	4
72	l	5