{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/ca/dow/dow56.htm","path":"nam/ca/dow/dow56.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/dow/dow56.htm","text":"The Dawn of the World, by C. Hart Merriam, [1910]\nThe Southern Mewuk of the Mariposa region say:\nIf a person dies without a hole in his nose he will turn into a fish, but if the nose is perforated\nfor the kun-no-wah 25 he will not turn into a fish.\n219:25 The kun-no-wah is a short white rod of shell or stone worn in the nose by both men and women of this tribe.","title":"The Dawn of the World: Beliefs concerning Ghosts and the ...","type":"page"}