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===With uncounted time=== An alternative way of dealing with the fact that a solar year does not contain an integer number of [[lunar month]]s is by including uncounted time in a period of the year that is not assigned to a named month.<ref>{{ Citation | last = Nilsson | first = Martin P. | author-link = Martin P. Nilsson | date = 1920 | title = Primitive Time-Reckoning: A Study in the Origins and First Development of the Art of Counting Time among the Primitive and Early Culture Peoples | chapter = Calendar Regulation 1. The Intercalation | publisher = C. W. K. Gleerup | place = Lund | page = 240 | quote = The Lower Thompson Indians in British Columbia counted up to ten or sometimes eleven months, the remainder of the year being called the autumn or late fall. This indefinite period of unnamed months enabled them to bring the lunar and solar year into harmony.}}</ref> Some [[Coast Salish peoples]] used a calendar of this kind. For instance, the [[Sts'Ailes|Chehalis]] began their count of lunar months from the arrival of spawning [[chinook salmon]] (in Gregorian calendar October), and counted 10 months, leaving an uncounted period until the next chinook [[salmon run]].<ref>Suttles, Wayne P. ''Musqueam Reference Grammar'', UBC Press, 2004, p. 517.</ref>
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