Fig. 512. (S. 1–10.) From the collection of H. K. Deisher, Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
Fig. 513. (S. 1–4.) Long effigy pestle. Butler farm, northwest part of Turkey Hill, Ipswich. From the collection of Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
“When I came here in the early fifties, there used large numbers of Indians go by my ranch in the fall, down to the creek to catch sturgeon and dry them, and they always went back by the way of the lagoon and stayed a day or two and had some kind of a pow-wow. After the lagoon was drained, they never came back.”
Mr. Lewis, on arrival in California, heard that a numerous tribe living near Petaluma was practically exterminated by some contagious disease. He believed that the Indians returning annually to hold ceremonies at the lagoon belonged to this tribe.
Fig. 514. (S. 1–4.) From the collection of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
Fig. 515. (S. 1–6.) From the collection of W. A. Holmes, Chicago, Illinois.