Wishram Calendar

June-"Rotten Moon" [fish spoil easily]
July-"Advance-in-a-body Moon" [salmon ascending the rivers]
August- "Blackberry-patches Moon"
September-"Her-acorns Moon"
October-"Travel-in-canoes Moon"
November-"Snowy-mountains-in-the-morning Moon"
December-"Her-winter-Houses Moon"
January-"Her-cold Moon"
February-"Shoulder Moon" [shoulder-to-shouldr around the fire]
March-"Long-days Moon"
April-"The eighth Moon"
May-"The ninth Moon"

(Ramsey 1977:72)

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