20 HISTORY OF PASADENA. ; 



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Isanthcog-na — Mission Vieja. [The place called "Old Mission," at the ; 

 San Gabriel river — the site where San Gabriel Mission was at first estab- 

 lished (September 8, 1771), but afterwards moved to its present location. 

 Some fragments of the adobe walls of the old first church, and other struc- 

 tures, may be seen yet (1895), at " Old Mission."] 



Pasinog-na — Chino ranch. 



Pubug-na — Alamitos ranch. [The shores of Alamitos bay.] 



Sibag-7ia — San Gabriel. [This was at a great alluvial marsh which 

 formerly existed in the washway southwest of the present village, and furn- 

 ished rich crops of vegetables and grain to the Mission while its buildings | 

 were going up at the new location. But that body of rich marsh land has 

 all been washed away, leaving only fields of sand and gravel.] 



Sisit Canog-na — Pear Orchard. [The old Mission pear orchard, below 

 the mouth of Wilson, Mission and San Marino canyons — now called the 

 Cooper Place, where Isaac and Thomas Cooper live.] 



Sonag-na — Mr. White's place. [Irving A. White of the Sierra Madre 

 colony, near, or a part of the present village of Sierra Madre.] 



Siiang-na — Wilmington. [This was the largest or most populous of 

 the Indian villages in the county, on account of the abundance of food, and 

 so easily obtained from the great estuary or bay there — fish and clams, and 

 such roots, berries and native plant seeds as they used for food.] 

 Tibahag-na — Cerritos ranch. [Site near Clearwater.] 

 Toybipet-na — San Jose. [Spadra.] 

 Yang-7ia — lyOS Angeles. 



PASADENA'S VERY FIRST NAME AND PEOPLE. 



The Hahamog-na clan occupied our Arroyo Seco region, and therefore 

 "Hahamog-na " may be set down as the first name by which Pasadena ter- 

 ritory was ever designated in human speech ; and Hahamovic* was the 

 name or title of the old native chief who smoked the peace-pipe with Gover- 

 nor Portola at South Pasadena, January 17, 1770. In regard to tribal head- 

 ship among the Indians, Bancroft's "Native Races," p. 409, says : 



"Each tribe acknowledged one head, whose province it was to settle 

 disputes, levy war, make peace, appoint feasts, and give good advice. Be- 

 yond this he had little power. He was assisted in his duties by a council of 

 elders. The office of chief was hereditary, and in the absence of a male heir 

 devolved upon the female nearest of kin. She could marry whom she 

 pleased, but her husband obtained no authority through the alliance, all the | 

 power remaining in his wife's hands until their eldest boy attained his ma- 1 

 jority, when the latter at once assumed command." 



This old chief, Hahamovic [called by the Spaniards " Pascual el Capi- j 

 tan"], was head chief, and his tribe or clan had several villages at points ' 



♦•'The chief of each lodge took its name, followed by zc, with sometimes the alteration of one or 

 more final letters. For instance, the chief of Aziicsag-ua was called Azucsavic; that of Sibag-na, Sibapic; 

 etc." — Hugo Reid's Records: Leller i. 



