The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-24
INDIAN NAMES on HOODS CANAL.
What skykomish, Tuia1ip, Dukaboos and
Other Dainty Words Signify.

what skykomish, TuiaIip, Dukaboos and
Other Dainty Words signify.
Myron Eels In Union City Tribune.
Twana is the name of tribe of Indians
who live on Hoods canal, which was COM
posed of three bands, the Quilceeds. Sko-
komish and DuhIaylips. 1t is a corruption
from the original name, tu-ad-hu-pro-
nounced tu-an-hu by the Clallam Indians.
1t is said by Dr. George Gibbs to mean q
portage" because of the portage between
Clifton and North bay, but have never
been able to verify il among the Indians.
though have inquired many times; nor
do they give any other meaning for the
word.
Skokomish is from s-kaw-kaw-bish-pro-
nounced s-kaw-kaw-mis by the Clallams.
1t was the name of that tribe. 1t means
the river people, from "kaw, their word
for fresh water, as that river is the largest
that flows into the canal. The termina-
ton, "mish," or .'bish,' very common on
the Sound, means people, the ckokomish
word for people being "klo- wal-bish," and
that OF the Lower Chehalis Indians being
'a-lah-mish."
QuiIceed is from quil-ceed-o-bish, the
name of band of Indians who lived in
that bay. meaning the salt water people, !"
in distinction from the S-kaw-kaw-bish or
dian name Of the region around Clifton,
means 1.-THE head of the bay" Another
pronunciation or corruption of the same
word is Tu-la-lip. the name of q place in
Snohomish county. Duk-a-boos Is cor
rupted from the Indian name Do-hi-a-boos.
and means "a reddish face" because the
bluff or mountain near that place has q
reddish face or appearance.
LilIiewaup is said to mean IAN inlet, )" be-
cause Of the small bay there. The West
Shore several years ago gave falling water"
as the meaning, on what authority do not
know, nor have l been able to verify it
among the Indians. Dewatto 10 from the
Indian name Du-a-ta. because that in their
mythology. certain imaginary small pig
mics or sprites used to live there, who maze
folks crazy If once they entered them. The
names of these sprites was tub-ta-ba, and
the name of their home in the spirit world.
which was within the earth, was du-a-ta,
and this place was called by the same
name, because here they came out of the
earth.
Ta-ho-ya is from two Twana words, sta"
meaning that" and 'ho-i" done" and
thus means that done;" but why it was
applied to that stream cannot learn, but
one person surmises that something espe-
cially notable was done there long ago.
DocewalIops is more properly Doswa ilopsh
In the Twana mythology the mountain of
that name was long ago man, while
Mount Solomon, opposite it, was his wife,
and an apparently small but noticeable
mountain far up in the valley between
them was their child. Mount Rainier was
another wife of the same man, who lived
at the same place, but the two
women quarreled so badly that after
q time a big woman. whose name
was Tu-wah-hu. which is the Indian name
for that mountain. picked up basketful
of the heads, tails and parts of fish and left
to find more peaceabie home. She trav-
eled up Hoods canal and intended to stop
at Skokomish, but the place was too small
for her. so she went on, dropping, however,
as she crossed the Skokomish river a piece
of silver salmon and piece of hump
backed salmon into the stream, and
this is the reason, they say, why
these two kinds of salmon ascend only
these two of all the streams in the
region. She then went on until she
reached the Nisqually, but that place was
too small, so she moved ON. dropping a
piece of silver salmon into the river, and
hence they say that kind of salmon ascend
only that stream in that region. When
she reached the place where Mount Rainier
now is she found room and settled down.
About that time NEUROLOGICAL being
called Do-ki-batl, or the changer, came
along, and on account of their quarrels
changed them all into mountains. The
name of the man, Dos-wail-opsh, has been
perpetuated in the name of the mountain
and rfx- rha-a