Stephen Powers calls by the name Patween a race inhabiting the west side of the middle and lower Sacramento, Caché and Putos creek, and Napa Valley. Physically, the Patweens do not differ from the Wintoons. Their complexion varies from brassy bronze to almost jet-black, they walk pigeon-toed, and have very small and depressed heads, the arch over their eyes forming sometimes a sharp ridge. They are socially disconnected and have no common name; but their language does not differ much in its dialects, and belongs, as far as we are acquainted with it, to the Wintoon stock. Powers (Overland Monthly, December, 1874, p. 542, sqq.) classes under this heading a number of clans or bands, of which we mention:—Suisuns, in Suisun Valley, Solano Co.; Ululatos, in Ulatus Creek, near Vacaville; Lewytos and Putos, in Putos Creek; Napas, in Napa Valley; Lolsels, east of Clear Lake; Corusies, near Colusa, on Sacramento river; Chenposels, on Caché Creek; Noyukies, inter-married with Wintoons, on Stony Creek. Guilulos or Guillilas, in Sonora Valley. A Lord's Prayer given in their dialect, by Duflot de Mofras, ii, p. 391, differs entirely from the Chocuyem, hence the Guilulo may belong to the Patween stock. The words of the Napa root-diggers, collected by Major Bartlett, and another vocabulary of the Napa have not yet been published by the Smithsonian Institution.
Yuka.—The Yuka or Uka language extends over a long and narrow strip of territory parallel for a hundred miles to the Pomo dialects and the coast, in and along the coast range. The area of the Pomo language, however, breaks across that of the Yuka from the West at Ukiah and surrounds Clear Lake. The revengeful race of the Yukas, who are conspicuous by very large heads placed on smallish bodies, originally dwelt in Round valley, east of Upper Eel river. Nome Cult, meaning "western tribe," is the Wintoon name for this solitary and fertile valley, which has become the seat of an Indian Reservation. Of the Yuka we have a short vocabulary by Lieut. Edward Ross in N.Y. Historical Magazine for April, 1863. Surd vowels, perhaps nasalized, are frequent; also the ending -um, -un, which is probably the plural termination of nouns. No connection with the Chokuyem is perceptible, but a faint resemblance with the Cushna can be traced in a few words. Other tribes speaking Yuka are the Ashochemies or Wappos, formerly inhabiting the mountain tract from the Geysers down to Calistoga Hot Springs; the Shumeias, at the head of Eel river; and the Tahtoos, on the middle and south forks of Eel river, and at the head of Potter Valley.
Pomo.—The populous, unoffending Pomo race is settled along the coast, on Clear Lake and on the heads of Eel and Russian rivers; a portion
