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| Hoffman. 



gesture-signs signifies corn-shellers, and is made by loosely closing the left 

 hand and holding it horizontally in front of the breast so that the thumb 

 is directed forward ; the right is then similarly closed with the thumb 

 almost straight, and a motion made with the right against the left, as if 

 shelling corn. 



The following synonomy may serve for further study regarding this 



interesting tribe : 



Tsa'nish. 



Ta-nish. 1 



Sa-nish'. i 



Star-rah-he. 



Starrahe. 



Aracaris. 



Aricaree. 



Aricaris. 



Aricas. 



Arikara. 



Arikkaras. 



Arricaras. 



Arrickoras. 



Auricara. 



Black Pawnees. 



Corn Eaters. 



Eokoros. 

 Eskoros. 



Pa-da'-ni. 



Pa-la'-ni. 



Pa-dai'-na. 



Pe-nai'-na. 



Pe-da-nis. 



Pawnee-Rikasrees. 



Hacres. 1 



Recaro. J 



Rees. 



la Ree. 



Rhea. 



Ricara. 



Ricarees. 



Ricaris. 



Ricars. 



Rice Indians. 



Rickaree. 



Rikkaras. 



Tribal designation. 



Hayden. Eth. & Phil, of the Missouri valley.'; 1862. 



p. 356. 

 Lewis and Clark. 1806. p. 22. "Tribal name." 

 Bradbury. Travels. Liverpool, 1817. p. 111. 

 Gass. Journal, 1807. p. 400. 

 Saxton, in Rep. N. P. R. R., 1854, p. 239. 

 Gass, op. cit., p. 48. 



Prichard. Phys. Hist. Mankind, 1847. Vol. v, p. 408. 

 Brackenridge. Views of La. 1815. p. 76. 

 Maximilian. Travels. 1843. p. 143. 

 Keating' s Long's Exped. 1824. i, p. 424. 

 Webb. Altowan. i. 1846. p. 83. 

 Ind. Treaties. 1837. p. 447. 

 Pritchard. op. cit., p. 408. 

 Culbertson. Rep. Smithsonian Inst, for 1850, p. 130. 



"Their own name." 

 Coxe. Carolina. 1741, map. 

 La Hontan (Schoolcraft's Travels in 1820). Albany, 



1821. p. viii. , 



1 



So called by various bands of Sioux. 

 Signifies enemy. 



Dialectic forms. 



Warren. Nebraska and Arizona (1855-7), 1875, p. 50. 

 Nuttall. Journal. Philad'a, 1821. p. 81. 



Lewis. Travels. 1809. p. 15. 



Franchere. Narrative. N. Y., 1854. p. 54. 



Lewis and Clark. 1806. p. 22. 



Hallam. In Beach's Ind. Miscellany. 1877. p. 134. 



Lewis. Travels. 1809, p. 3. 



Maximilian, op. cit., p. ix. 



Gass. Journal. 1807, 



p. 48. 



uass. tiuuniai. joui 



Lewis & Clark. 1806. p. 24. 



Franchere. op cit., p. 54. 



Irving's Astoria. N. Y., 1849. p. 119. 



Maximilian, op. cit., p. 167. 



