Dictionary entry
'O Kneget • pn • 1 a large sea-stack just south of the mouth of the Klamath 2 Flint Rock Head (a conspicuous promontory south of the mouth of the Klamath) 3 a crag on a cliff at the north of Patrick's Point 4 a rock in the ocean near the mouth of Luffenholtz Creek
Lexicon record # 4311 | Source reference(s):
YG:A66 YG:B1 YG:J6 YG:K57
Semantic
domain: place names
Derivation: literally, "where they get arrowheads" (knetken "flint")
Geographical stories
- YG233 ('O Kneget 2) • "A 'woogey tried to turn this promontory into obsidian so the Indians could make arrow-points there. Although he did not succeed, his efforts left the rock marked with stripes of red."
- YG272 ('O Kneget 4) • "Once, in myth times, someone was going to make the rock here into a place where people could go for arrow-points, but the scheme fell through."