Tatoosh aylan yaka neym, II. sItkEm (fwd)

[David Robertson]

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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:05:53 PDT
From: girl wynecoop <wynecoop at hotmail.com>
To: drobert at tincan.tincan.org
Subject: Re: Tatoosh aylan yaka neym, II. sItkEm

Dave:
Cannon Ball Island is at the Ozette dig.  It is a geological marvel.  It
appears to have bowling balls (sans finger holes) imbedded in the soil.
Wave action has freed many many of the perfectly round rocks to sit like a
skirt around the island.  One can only get up close at low tide; and an
added site, observable only at low tide, is the many stone channels created
by the Makahs to guide their canoes to shore.
The cannon balls are so heavy than they cannot be abscounded with and
carried back to one's car which is a four mile hike away along cedar planks.
  The Cannon Ball Island I know of is not near Tatoosh Island.  Nor is it
very big.

Tina

>From: David Robertson <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG>
>Reply-To: David Robertson <drobert at tincan.tincan.org>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Tatoosh aylan yaka neym, II. sItkEm
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:17:40 -0800
>
>LhaXayEm wEXt!
>
>I would like to share a story with you that a good friend (Adam, who was
>at the first ChInuk Lu7lu) has told me.
>
>This relates to the many names Tatoosh Island has had, and the many
>interpretations people have given them.  Early on, the island was
>frequently called Isla de [los] Dolores / Ile des Douleurs:  "Island of
>Sufferings"; a bit later, "Duncan's Rock".
>
>Scott Tyler mentions that the family of someone named Tatoosh from
>Nuu-chah-nulth territory had occupied the island at some point.  I wonder
>whether his name meant something different from "breasts"!
>
>My friend tells me he's visited "Cannonball Island" over there, which I'm
>imagining refers to the USA military use of the island as a bombing range.
>(I'm rusty on these details.)  But he points out that the north side of
>the island has odd rock formations from which spherical accretions erode
>and roll around in the surf!
>
>Go figure.  Lhush san,
>Dave
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