1885.] ODD IBrinton. 



Giiaranis. — The name of a number of aflSliated tribes in South- 

 ern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. 

 The Tupis of Brazil are a branch of the Guaranis. 



Huastecas. — A northern colony of the great Maya stock of 

 Yucatan, dwelling in the i)rovince of Tampico on the river Pa- 

 nuco. At the time of the discovery they were an important and 

 cultured nation. 



Lule. — One of the nations of El Gran Chaxv, west of the 

 Parana river. The Arte y Vocahulario de la Lengua Lule y 

 Tonocote^ by Father Antonio Machoni de Cerdeiia (Madrid, 

 1732), was republished with a careful ethnographic introduction 

 by J. M. Larsen, at Buenos Ajaes, 1877. 



Haipures. — Tribes of various dialects who live on both sides of 

 the Orinoco river where it forms the boundary between Vene- 

 zuela and New Granada, about 5° X. lat. 



Mayas. — Natives of Yucatan, and the most highly developed 

 of any of the American nations. Related dialects are spoken in 

 Guatemala, in Tabasco, and by the Huastecas. 



Mbayas. — A people of the Gran Chaco in the northern part 

 of the Argentine Republic, and distantly related to the Abi- 

 pones. 



Mexican. — Otherwise called the Nahuatl or Aztec language. 

 Spoken in the greatest purity in the valley of Mexico, it exten- 

 ded from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, and along the latter 

 from Sonora to Guatemala, with few interruptions. 



Mixtecas. — A tribe speaking several dialects living in the State 

 of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Mocobis One of the four principal nations who formerly 



occupied Ul Gran Chaco, west of the Parana river. By some 

 the name is spelled Mbocoby. 



Om'iguas. — -Once a nation of considerable extent and culture 

 between the Maranon and the Orinoco. 



Othomis. — A tribe resident near San Louis Potosi, Mexico, and 

 neighboring parts. Their proper name is said to be Hid'hiu. 

 Their language is monosyllabic and nasal. 



Tamanacas. — These dwell on the right bank of the Upper Ori- 

 noco, and are connected b}^ dialect with the Carib stock on the 

 one hand and the Guaranay on the other. 



Totonacas. — ^A nation asserted by Pimeqtel to speak a mixed 



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