. Bulletin. Ethnology. Drucker] THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NOOTKAN TRIBES 229 MUCHATUTZ INLET. Map 4.—Moachat sites. Tribal (winter) villages: 1, kupti, 2, 6'wis. Local group sites: 3, e'as; 4, tsaxsis; 5, mawun; 6, tacis; 7, amitsa; 8, tsawun; 9, hatoq; 10, Luis; 11, hisnit; 12, tsaxho'; 13, ta'atis; 14, mowatca; 15, nisaq. Confederacy (summer) site: 16, yukwot. since ancient times it is probable that others, such as the extinct amitsa group, once played an important part in developing the con- federacy. It is said to have been through alliances with the chiefs of amitsa (7), that the nayitsa'a
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Drucker] THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NOOTKAN TRIBES 229 MUCHATUTZ INLET. Map 4.—Moachat sites. Tribal (winter) villages: 1, kupti, 2, 6'wis. Local group sites: 3, e'as; 4, tsaxsis; 5, mawun; 6, tacis; 7, amitsa; 8, tsawun; 9, hatoq; 10, Luis; 11, hisnit; 12, tsaxho'; 13, ta'atis; 14, mowatca; 15, nisaq. Confederacy (summer) site: 16, yukwot. since ancient times it is probable that others, such as the extinct amitsa group, once played an important part in developing the con- federacy. It is said to have been through alliances with the chiefs of amitsa (7), that the nayitsa'aptakamlath chiefs obtained their first holdings on the upper part of the Sound. Later, it was one of their chiefs who was given the most extensive rights by the legendary Nuchatlet tacisath chief who moved down to Esperanza Inlet, Addi- tional rights at tacis {6), were given to the ancestral chiefs of various "inside" groups, those of the ttikwittakamlath, who owned hatoq (5), and the entrance to Tasis Narrows (later split into two areas when the old group was divided into the two recent houses), the tsawunath (of site 5), the mawun group (5), and the puqanumctakamlath (also called the caxmactakamlath), the original owners of kupti {1). This last-named group gave the right to a house site at kupti to a yaluac-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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