Jan 3, 2010
The coast Yuki, or Ukhotnom, were shell-mound dwellers. They comprised eleven groups who occupied approximately fifty miles of the Mendocino Coast. They lived in conical redwood bark-covered dwellings; in summer they utilized brush huts for privacy and windbreaks. Men hunted and fished, while women collected and gathered essential plant foods. Each group had its own elected headman and territory. Groups visited, traded, and had usury rights to resources of other villages. Though a marine-oriented people, they had no boats. Their diet consisted primarily of acorns, grass seeds, salmon,...
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