Wiyimpih-deka

The Wiyimpih-deka are the Wiyimpihtikka, the Buffalo Berry Eaters of the Western Shoshone, whose range centred on Big Smoky Valley in central Nevada, between the Toiyabe and Toquima ranges. Their country adjoined that of the Tsaiduka, the Tule Eaters of Railroad Valley. Numic-speaking foragers had spread through the Great Basin by the fourteenth century, and by 1500 Shoshone bands held most of Nevada.

The Wiyimpihtikka lived by the Desert Culture round: winter villages near water, summer family camps for rabbits, pronghorn and grass seeds, and autumn pinyon-nut harvests in the mountains. They used tightly woven baskets for winnowing and carrying but had no permanent fields or settled towns.