Numbers
The five named towns on Mad River are credited with the following numbers of houses, according to two Yurok sources:
Ma'awor
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7
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4
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Tegwol
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3
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Erlerw
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20
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Sepola
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15
|
10
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Osok
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5
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4
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This gives averages of 9 and 6 houses per village.
The latter figure is that obtaining among the Yurok and probably higher than that for the Chilula, and is more likely to be correct.
At this rate, the population of the five settlements would have been a little over 200; and the entire Wiyot population would have amounted to perhaps 800, or not over 1,000.
An 1853 estimate set the former figure.
The 1910 census yielded over 150, but classed half of them as of mixed blood.
The following estimates are of interest:
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Wiyot.
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Yurok.
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Karok.
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Hupa.
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Chilula.
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Miles of river navigable to a canoe
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25
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50
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60
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35
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(30)
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Population
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500
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1,800
|
1,500
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1,000
|
600
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Per mile
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20
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35
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25
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30
|
20
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Miles of ocean, bay, or lagoon shore
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50
|
50
|
|
|
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Population
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500
|
700
|
|
|
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Per mile
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10
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15
|
|
|
|
It is clear that streams were more sought as habitations than the coast in this part of California.
Furthermore, practically all of the coast settlements, among the Tolowa and Yurok as well as the Wiyot, lay on bays, lagoons, or the mouths of streams rather than on the ocean shore itself.
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