Loolego is a former Yurok settlement in Humboldt County, California.[1] It was located on the Lower Klamath River 2 mi (3.2 km) above the fork with the Trinity River.[1] T. T. Waterman noted that the name, Lo'-o-le'-go, translates to "where they build a fish weir." It was about 2 miles upstream of the confluence of the Klamath and Trinity rivers and must at one time have been a substantial settlement because the inhabitants were public performers at the deerskin ceremony at wē-itspūs. 30 years before his 1909 visit, there had been two house pits and a sweat lodge foundation, but hydraulic placer mining had washed away the soil down to bedrock in the 1880s.[2] Sherburne F. Cook wrote that the population of Loolego declined rapidly after white settlement.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Loolego, California
- ^ Waterman, T. T. (May 31, 1920). "Yurok Geography". University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. 16 (5): 258.
- ^ Cooke, Sherbourne F. (October 18, 1954). "The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California". Anthropological Records. 16 (3): 89 – via The Internet Archive.
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