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Cocopa 
(Synonym: Cucapa) 
The Indians speaking this idiom are generally placed in the Yuman 
family, and, according to Orozco y Berra, are sometimes referred to by 
the names Cuhanes, Cuanes, and Yuanes. The name given on his 
map is Cuhanes. Unfortunately, however, he has made two tribes 
of them, one (Cucapas, or Cuhanes) which he places in the Yuman 
family; the other (Cocopas) in the Piman family. Doctor Gatschet 
(415)! makes the two names synonyms and places the one tribe in 
the Yuman family. However, the relations of the tribe have not 
yet been satisfactorily worked out. These Indians live along the 
Colorado river near its mouth. 
CocHIMI 
The Cochimi were a division of the Yuman family living in the 
northern portions of the Californian peninsula. Their territory ex- 
tended from the international boundary southward to, or a little 
beyond, the twenty-sixth parallel of north latitude, including Loreto, 
where it was bounded by the territory of the Waicuri (Bancroft, 1, 
557). Orozco y Berra says (1:366): “Los Cochimies ocupaban la 
peninsula desde Loreto hasta poco mas alli de nuestra frontera.’”’ 
Venegas (I, 66) says: ‘Desde el territorio de Loreto, por todo lo 
descubierto al Norte de la nacion Cochimi;’’ Clavigero (22) says from 
25° to 33° north latitude. 
The Cochimi spoke a distinct language of the Yuman stock, di- 
vided, however, into from two to four dialects. Orozco y Berra, in 
his text (1: 366-367), mentions three, Cochimi del Norte, Edu, and 
Didu, but on his map he adds what seems to be a fourth, Cochimi 
(proper). He is evidently in error in referring to the Edu and Didu 
here, since they were Waicurian and were situated considerably 
farther south. The northern Cochimi are mentioned by some ° 
authors as the Laymon. Prichard (1, 553) mentions ‘‘The Cochimi, 
Pericu, and Loretto languages; the former is the same as the Lay- 
mon, for the Laymones are the northern Cochimies.’’ Hassel (57) 
mentions Laymon as distinct, and the Cochimi with three distinct 
dialects—San Francisco Borgia, Utschiti, and Ika. Bancroft 
(111, 687) mentions but two dialects of the Cochimi in his text—Lay- 
mon and Ika. It is questionable, however, whether the Ika were not 
Waicurian. , 
In spite of Orozco y Berra’s error in placing the Didu and Edu, the 
territory assigned by him to the Yuman stock agrees with the infor- 
mation of our best early authorities, and he has been followed in the 
accompanying map. 
'See the Bibliography, pages 97-100. 
