Places: CA-Lost Arrow

Lost Arrow (Yosemite Falls)   
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Description:
“Ummo. Rocks between the Yosemite Falls and Indian Cañon; means ‘lost arrow’.” (Whitney: The Yosemite Book, 1868, p. 17.)

“The rocks near which we were encamped, between ‘Indian Cañon’ and ‘The Falls,’ were now called by the Po-ho-no-chee scouts who were with us, ‘Hammo,’ or ‘Ummo,’ ‘The Lost Arrow,’ in commemoration of the event.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, p. 169.—For the “event,” see Bunnell, p. 162.) For another version, see Powers: Tribes of California, in Contributions to North American Ethnology, III, 1877, pp. 363-364.

For the imaginary legend, see Hutchings: In the Heart of the Sierras, 1886, pp. 370-374; and Bertha H. Smith: Yosemite Legends, 1904, pp. 19-30. See, also, Galen Clark: Indians of the Yosemite, 1904, pp. 76-78, 96-100.
From  Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

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