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less effectual are potsherds and rasp-like 

 surfaces, such as that of the skin of the 

 dogfish. Of the same general class are all 

 sawing, drilling, and scrajiing tools and 

 devices, which are described under sepa- 

 rate heads. The smoothing and polish- 

 ing implements into which the grinding 

 stones imperceptibly grade are also sejoa- 

 rately treated. The small- 

 er grinding stones were 

 held in the hand, and were 

 usually unshaped frag- 

 ments, the arrowshaft rub- 

 ber and the slender ne- 

 ]3hrite whetstone of the 

 Eskimo being exceptions. 

 The larger ones were slabs, bowlders, or 

 fragments, which rested on the ground or 

 were held in the lap 

 while in use. In many 

 localities exposed sur- 

 faces of rock in jilace arro^ 

 were utilized, and these 

 as well as the movable 

 varieties are often covered with the 

 grooves produced by the grinding work. 

 These markings range from narrow, shal- 



BRADING STON 

 JERSEY. I LENGTH, 

 3 1-2 INCHES. 



Rubber 



CALIFORNIA. (length 

 INCHES.) 



GRINDING Stone, Ten 

 (length, 21 inches) 



WHETSTONE OF NEPHRITE, ESKIMO. (lENGTH, 5 IKCHES. ) 



low lines, produced by sliaping pointed 

 objects, to broad channels made in shap- 

 ing large imple- 

 ments and uten- 

 sils. Reference 

 to the various 

 forms of abrad- 

 ing implements 

 is made in nu- 

 merous works 

 and articles 

 treating of the 

 technology of the native tribes. The 

 more important of these are cited under 

 Arc}ieolo(/!/, Bonevork, Stonnrurk, SJirll- 

 v'ork. (w. H. H. ) 



Abraham, also called Little A])raham. 

 A Mohawk chief of considerable orator- 

 ical ))owei' who sui'ceeded the so-called 

 King Hendrick after the l)attle of L. 

 George in 175a, in which the latter was 

 killed. He espoused the English cause 

 in the American Revolution, but was of a 

 pacific character. He was i)resent at the 

 last meeting of the Mohawk with the 

 American commissioners at Albany in 

 Sept., 1775, after which he drops from no- 

 tice. He was succeeded by Brant, (c. t. ) 

 Absayruc. A Costanoan village men- 

 tioned as formerly connected with the 

 mission of San Juan Bautista, Cal. — 



Engelhardt, Franciscans in Cal., 398, 

 1897. 



Absentee. A division of the Shawnee 

 who about 1845 left the rest of the tribe, 

 then in Kansas, and removed to Ind. T. 

 In 1904 they numbered 459, under the 

 Shawnee school superintendent in Okla- 

 homa. (.1. M.) 



Ginetewi Sawanogi.— Gatschet, Shawnee MS., 

 B. A. E., 1879 (.so called sometimes by the other 

 Shawnee; Ginetewi is derived from the name 

 of Canadian r., on which they live). Pepua- 

 hapitski Sawanogi. — Ibid. (' Away -from - here 

 Shawnee,' eommonly so called by the other 

 Shawnee). 



Acacafui. Mentioned by Juan de Ofiate 

 (Doc. Ined., xvi, 115, 1871), in connec- 

 tion with Puaray, apparently as a pueblo 

 of the Tigiia of New Mexico in 1598. 



Acacagua. An unidentified pueblo of 

 New Mexico in 1598.— Onate (1598) in 

 Doc. Ined., xvi, 103, 1871. 



Acachin. A Papago rancheria in s. 

 Arizona; pop. 47 in 1865. — Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 135, 1865. 



Acadialite. A reddish chabazite ( Dana, 

 Text-book of Mineral., 458, 1898), so cal led 

 from Acadia, an early and still a literary 

 name of Nova Scotia and New Briniswick : 

 a latiiiization, helped out by analogy with 

 the classical Arcadia, of a word formed 

 l)y the early French explorers on the 

 l)asi.'-! of a suffix of many place names, 

 which in the Micmac dialect of Algon- 

 (|uian signifies 'where a thing is plenti- 

 fid.' The //7e represents the Greek A/Ooc, 

 stone. (,\. F. c. ) 



Acapachiqui. An unidentified town in 

 s. (Georgia, visited by De Soto in JMaich, 

 1.540. — Biedma in French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 II, 99, 1850. 



Capachiqui. — Gentleman of Elvas (1557) in French, 

 oil. cit.. 137. 



Accohanoc. A tribe of the Powhatan 

 confederacy that formerly lived on the 

 river of the same name, in Accomac and 

 Northamjjton cos., Va. They had 40 

 warriors in 1608. Their principal village 

 bore the name of the trilie. They be- 

 came mixed with negroes in later times, 

 and the remnant was driven off at the 

 time of the Nat Turner insurrection, 

 about 1833. (.i. m.) 



Accahanock, — Herrman, map (11)70) in Maps to 

 .Accompany the Rep't of the C'om'rs on the 

 B'nil'ry Line bet. Va. and Md.. 1878. Acco- 

 hanock. — Strachey (ca. 1612), Virginia, 41, 18-19. 

 Accotronacks. — Boiidinot, Star in the West, 125, 

 ISlC). Acohanock.— Smith (lt)29), Virginia, I, 120, 

 repr. lsi9. Aquohanock. — Ibid., ll, 61. Occa- 

 hanock. — Beverly, Virginia, 199. 1722. Ochahan- 

 nanke. — Strachey (en. 1612), Virginia, 62, 1849. 



Accomac. (According to Trumbull the 

 word means 'the other-side place,' or 

 'on-the-other-side-of-water place.' In 

 the Massachuset language ogkomc or 

 (tkaivinr means 'beyond'; an(l ac, aki, 

 or aliki in various Algonquian dialects 

 means 'land.' According to Dr Wm. 

 Jones (iuf'n, 1905) the term is pj-obably 

 akin to the Chippewa Hgdiniug, 'the other 



