GC49NX2Mondo's NAT #278 - Kuitsh
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By: mondou2@
| Hide Date: 04/12/2013
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 02.645 W105° 04.502 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Native American Tribes series.Kuitsh
A small Yakonan tribe formerly living on lower Umpqua river, western Oregon. A few survivors are on the Siletz Reservation. Human occupation of the Oregon Coast is being constantly reevaluated, and dates of occupation are being pushed further back. Currently, it is believed that people began settling the coast over 9,000 years ago. The Kuitsh people are therefore of great antiquity. They have probably lived in the same locations for hundreds of generations.
The Kuitsh built large, high-prowed canoes up to 20 feet long, carved out of cedar logs. They were mainly for river and bay travel, as open ocean sailing was very risky. However, a few ocean-going canoes were imported from the Alsea and Chinook to the north, who specialized in such sturdy canoes. Lodges were semi-subterranean, up to 50 feet long, built of split and smoothed planks, with an oval entrance. The roof was gabled with a single ridge pole. Racks along the ceiling stored dried food, baskets, tools, and personal possessions. The interiors were lined with mats. Sweat houses were often dug into hillsides. Basketry was ornate and prolific, but pottery was not practiced.
According to Dorsey the former villages of the Kuitsh were Tsalila, Misun, Takhaiya, Chukhuiyathl, Chukukh, Thukhita, Tsunakthimittha, Ntsiyamis, Khuwaihus, Skakhaus, Chupichnushkuch, Kaiyuwuntsunitthai, Tsiakhaus, Piauiyunitthai, Tsetthim, Wuituthlaa, Paiuiyunitthi, Tsetthim, Wuituthlas, Chitlatmus, Kuilitsh, Tkimeye, Mikulitsh and Kthae.
06/13/2018 By BNellyBean Found this one laying in the grass next to the trail without a top. Log is still in good shape, and has an army man inside. No clue where this was supposed to be, so we stashed it at the base of a fence post at the coordinates.
Mondo's NAT #278 - Kuitsh
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