Masut (also, Ma-su-ta-kea and Masu-ta-kaya) was a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California, It was located northwest of Calpella. The same name was also given to a band of the Pomo people associated with the settlement. The Masut Pomo are known to have traveled widely, sometimes traveling as far as 50 miles to Clear Lake to quarry

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with the permission of other Pomo who owned the quarries there.

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Former settlements in Mendocino County, California Former populated places in California Pomo villages {{MendocinoCountyCA-geo-stub