THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 35 
Nacomeris, Nacosuras. Ribas (358) mentions these two peoples as adjoining on one side 
the Hure (Opata) and on the other the Himeri. They were 
in fact pueblos, the first on the Rio Horcasitas and the other 
on the Rio Moctezuma. Zapata (352) says the language 
spoken at Nacameri was Huere (that is, Opata). 
(Yeoronis= 7.5. Sosale 2 Ribas (34) mentions the Ocoroni in connection with Mocorito 
and Petatlan, the three on the first three rivers of Sinaloa, 
and says they are of ‘‘varias lenguas.’’ According to 
Zapata (401) the inhabitants of the pueblo of Ocoroni, per- 
taining to the ‘‘partido” of Tehueco, in Sinaloa, and sit- 
uated fifteen or sixteen leagues southeast of Mochicagui, 
spoke a distinct idiom called Ocoroni. Orozco y Berra 
(1: 333) gives it as distinct, inserts it in his list of languages, 
and places it on his map adjoining Vacoregue on the east. 
Sevin (xxx, 12) says: ‘‘Towards the town of El Fuerte, 
and farther north, we find the Mayos Indians, to which 
belong also the tribes Quasare, Ahome, and Ocoronis.’’ As 
there is some doubt in regard to this last statement, and 
as Orozco y Berra has evidently marked the space on his 
map with doubt, the name is omitted from our map. It is 
probable that the language was Tehueco, or a dialect of it. 
PC Pe ted cis che aia 'e Same remark as for Tahue. 
Pie: eed Sn aia, ae The Piros, mentioned by Orozco y Berra (1:325-326) as 
inhabiting pueblos on the Rio Grande near the present town 
of El Paso, and speaking the Piro language, which he places 
in his list of unclassified languages, were in fact a tribe 
occupying numerous pueblos east of and along the Rio 
Grande north of El Paso nearly to Albuquerque. Bancroft 
(11, 714) gives a copy of what purports to be the Lord’s 
Prayer in this language. The position of the language 
appears to have been determined with comparative cer- 
tainty from a vocabulary obtained by J. R. Bartlett. From 
this Gatschet (416-417) brings it into the stock of the Rio 
Grande pueblos called Tanoan, and makes it the type of 
one of the divisions of this stock. 
Sisibotaris.......... Ribas (380) mentions the Sisibotaris as a subtribe of the Lower 
Pima, but does not say their language is distinct, nor does 
Orozco y Berra give the name in his list of languages. 
Alegre (11, 124) says they dwelt in some beautiful valleys 
surrounded by mountains not very high, that they were 
docile and different from the Yaqui and Mayo, quoting from 
Ribas, but adds nothing in regard to their language. 
Unless referring to Balbi’s statement, Orozco y Berra (12353) 
seems to make the mistake of calling them a subtribe of 
the Upper Pima, when immediately below (1 :353, 58) he 
places them with the Lower Pima. 
SUNS Soe eee A semi-nomadic tribe about Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, and 
El Paso. Affinities unknown. 
Tahue (Tahueca)....- This is mentioned by Orozco y Berra (1 :336) as one of the 
extinct languages of Sinaloa. See Batucos, above. 
POMIOTIB sic a 354527 Mentioned by Ribas (215) in connection with the Guazapares, 
Chinipas, and Hios, and as residing in the sierras, hence 
along the southwestern boundary of the Tarahumare terri- 
tory. According to Zapata (390), the pueblo of Santa Maria 
