DIVISION ONE — PRE-PASADENIAN. 1 9 



quisitely neat, with cov^erlids of satin, the sheets and pillow cases trimmed 

 with lace and highly ornamented."* 



THE INDIAN VILLAGES. 



Among Hugo Reid's writings is a list more or less complete of the or- 

 iginal native Indian names of their villages or clan settlements in Los An- 

 geles county. Usually a clan had only one village, a central settlement ; 

 but sometimes the same clan had several villages, with an hereditary clan- 

 chief over all, and an elected sub-chief in each village, thus forming a sort 

 of patriarchal confederacy in government ; and this seems to have been the 

 case with our Arroyo Seco Indians when Governor Portola, the first white 

 man here, was treated kindly by them and their head chief, Hahamovic, in 

 January, 1770, at their village near the Garfias spring in South Pasadena. 

 Reid's writings in regard to the Indians were first published in the Los An- 

 geles Star in 1852, and republished in the California Farmer in January, 

 1 86 1. A copy of the MSS. was furnished by Judge Hayes, to H. H. 

 Bancroft while preparing his volume on ' ' Native Races of the Pacific 

 Coast", in 1881-82. Considerable portions of the matter were reprinted in 

 Lewis's "History of Los Angeles Co." published in 1889. And from 

 Reid's account of the Indian villages I select a few of the localities best 

 known to Pasadena people, or with which they have some special interest, 

 citing the Indian name, and its location as given by Reid, with my own 

 notes of explanation as to present identity. The suffix "na" was equiva- 

 lent to our word clan, but was also used in a sense the same as our suffixes 

 " ville" or "burg". 



Name of Indian I Location as given by I Present occupancy or 

 village. I Hugo Reid. | identity of the site. 



Acurag-na — La Presa. [A large tule bog or cienega on the L- J. Rose 

 place, above the winery, where the padres built a stone dam in 1821 and 

 conveyed the water in a ditch to their flouring mill No. 2, across the street 

 in front of the church. The stone dam stands yet ; and the foundation 

 walls, cement flumes, wheel pit, etc., of the mill are still visible as ruins.] 



Ahiipquig-na — Santa Anita ranch, where Hugo Reid lived in 1844. 



Awig-na — La Puente. 



Azucsag-na — Azusa. 



Cucomog-na — Cucamonga. 



Hahamog-na — Verdugo ranch. [From other sources and circumstances 

 I find that this clan occupied both sides of the Arroyo Seco from Garvanza 

 ford northward ; and when Reid wrote his account the Arroyo hills were 

 called promiscuously the "Verdugo hills", or "San Rafael" hills, all 

 lumped off as pertaining to Don Jose Maria Verdugo' s ranch. These were 

 the Indians who occupied Pasadena's location when white men first visited 

 the country in 1769-70.] 



*This Indian woman had been one of the " neophytes" under the training of old Eulalia Perez at 

 the San Gabriel Mission. See Chap. 2 and 3. 



