Presently some Wiyot live on the Rohnerville and Blue Lake Rancherias. (Eargle: 1986) Formerly the Wiyot gathered clams, took salmon from the rivers, hunted for sea-lions and fished in the sea. They might scavenge a stranded whale. They also hunted deer and elk, and gathered acorns. They used a dugout canoe. Their houses were rectangular, or split redwood planks, with a 2 or 3 pitch roof, a smoke hole at the top and side entrances with sliding wooden doors. Their clothes were of buckskin, and they wore rabbit -skin blankets. The women wore aprons strung with nut or seed beads. They made twined baskets with a hazel wand warp and willow root weft. (Heizer: 1978)

The Wiyot gave dugout canoes to the Mattole and got tobacco and abalone shells. They gave white deerskins to the Yurok and got rope made of the fiber of the Douglas iris. They also gave white deerskins to the Hupa. They gave beads to the Sinkyone. They traded olivella shells to inland peoples. (Davis: 1966)

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