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AOOTI ADAI 



[b. a. o. 



tury.— Winthrop (1638) in Drake, Book 

 of Inds., ))k. II, 27, 1848. 



Acoti. A locality, apparently Indian, 

 on a w. branch of the Rio Grande, w. of 

 Taos, in n. N. Mex., and indicated as the 

 "birth place of Montezuma' ' on an In<Uan 

 nia]> reproduced in Whipple, Pac. R. R. 

 Rep., Ill, pt. 8, 10, 1856. See tShipajiti- 

 lima. 



Acota,— Meline, Two Thousand Miles, 20'2, 18ti7. 

 Acbti. — Whipple, op. cit. 



Acous. The principal village of the 

 Chaicclesaht, situate on Battle bay, 

 Ououkinish inlet, \v. coast of Vancouver 

 id.— C'an. Ind. Aff , 264, 1902. 



Acpactaniche. A town, probal>ly jNIusk- 

 hogean, located on De F Isle's map of 

 1703 on the headwaters of Coosa r., Ala. 



Acquack (possibly related to the Chip- 

 pewa ii'tirn kiv(ii)(i(/, a locative term ex- 

 pressing the line between cover and open; 

 its particular sense is ' at the edge of the 

 woods,' the point of view being from the 

 open; the idea of woods is expressed by 

 the secondary stem -ak-. — Wm. Jones). 

 A village of the Powhatan confederacy 

 of Virginia in 1608, on the x. bank of 

 Rajipahannock r., Richmond co. — Smith 

 (1629), Virginia, i, map, repr. 1819. 

 Atquaclce. — Ibid., II, 91. 



Acquaskac. A village situated in 1608 

 on the w. Ijank of Patuxent r., St Marys 

 CO., Md. The word may be related to 

 Aquascogoc and Weckquaesgoek. 



Acquaseack.— Bozman. Hist. Md^, I, 141, 1837. 

 Acquaskack. — Smith (1020), Virginia, I, map, repr. 

 1S19. 



Acquera. An Utina tribe or band in x. 

 Florida. — Laudonniere (1564) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., n. s., i, 243, 1869. 

 Acuera, — Gareilasso de la Vega, Florida, -17, 17'Jo. 

 Aequeya.— Barcia, Ensayo, 48, 17-23 (given as the 

 cacique's name). 



Acquintanacsuak. A tribe or suljtribe 

 which Cajtt. John Smith (Virginia, i, 

 118, 1629; Arl)cr ed., 53, 1884)' locates 

 on the w. bank of Patuxent r., St Mary's 

 CO., Md. They were near to and in 

 friendship with the Patuxent and Mat- 

 tapanient, the 3 tribes numbering 200 

 warriors. The principal village bore the 

 tribal name and is supposed l)y Bozman 

 to have been situated at the mouth of 

 a small creek about 2^ m. al)Ove Cole's 

 inspection house. Smith describes them 

 as "the most civill to give entertaine- 

 ment." Although this people had their 

 werowance, or chief, it is doubtful whether 

 they formed a distinct tribe; it is not 

 impossible that they were a band or divi- 

 sion of the Patuxent. A number of local 

 names mentioned by early writers as 

 those of Indian tribes of Maryland sub- 

 sequently dropped from notice without 

 indication of the extinction of the peo- 

 ple, very likely because subsetiuent and 

 more correct information showed that 

 these referred merely to divisions of well- 

 known tribes, (.i. m. c. t. ) 



Ac-quin-a-nack-su-acks. — Macauley, N. Y., ii, 16iS. 

 1829. Acquintanacksuah. — Bozman, Hist. Md., I, 

 140, 1S37. Acquintanacksuak. — Smith (lti29), Va., 

 I, 118, repr. 1819. Acquintanacsuck. — Ibid., map. 

 Acquintunachsuah, — Bozman, Hist. Md., ii, 467, 

 1837. Acquitanases. — De Laet, Hist, du Nouv. 

 Monde, Hn, 1640. 



Actinolite. A variety of amphibolite 

 much used for implements by the ancient 

 Pueblos of .Arizona and New Mexico. It 

 occurs in small bodies in connection with 

 various crystalline formations, especially 

 ser])entine, and is much diversified in 

 color, the mottliiigs of various hues of 

 red, yellow, green, and gi'ay giving very 

 pleasing effects. Analysis shows silica, 

 6(1; magnes^ia, 21 ; lime, 14; specific grav- 

 itv, 3 to-3.1. Illustrations are given by 

 Nordenskiold, Cliff Dwellers, 1893; Put- 

 nam in Surv. W. 100th Merid., vii, 1879; 

 Wilson in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1896, 1898. 

 (\v. n. H.) 



Acubadaos. A tribe known to Cabeza 

 de Vaca (Smith transl., 84, 1851) during 

 his sojourn in Texas, 1527-34, as living 

 " in the rear" of or more inland than the 

 Atayos (Adai). The region indicated 

 would seem to be Caddoan country. 



Acuragna. A former (xabrieleiio vil- 

 lage in Los Angeles co., Cal., at a place 

 later called La Presa. — Ried ( 1852) quoted 

 l)y Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 8, 1860. 



Acushnet. A village of Praying In- 

 dians in 1698, probal)ly about Acushnet, 

 Bristol CO., Mass. "Acchusnutt" is said 

 to have been the Indian name of New 

 Bedford.— Rawson and Danforth (1698) 

 in Ma.«s. Hist. Soc. Coll., Ists., x, 129- 

 134, 1809. 



Acyum. A former village, presumably 

 Costaiioan, connected with Dolores mis- 

 sion, San Francisco, Cal.— Tavlor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Adac. A Cochimi rancheria belonging 

 to Santa Gertrudis mission, e. side of 

 Lower California, about lat. 27° 58'.— 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Jan. 17, 1862. 



Adai. A tribe of the Caddo confed- 

 eracy, speaking a dialect closely related 

 to that of the Kadohadacho, Hainai, and 

 .\nadarko. The tribe was first encoun- 

 tered in 1529 by Cabeza de Vaca, who 

 sjjeaks of them, under the name Atayos, 

 as living inland from the Gulf of Mexico. 

 When Iberville ascended Red r. of Louis- 

 iana in 1699 he heard of the people and 

 called them Natao, stating that their vil- 

 lage was on the river near that of the 

 Yata.'^i. According to La Harpe (1719) 

 the tribe was very useful to the French 

 traders and explorers, particularly when 

 making portages. 'At that time the vil- 

 lages of the Adai extended from Red r. 

 southward beyond the Sabine, in Texas, 

 known in the 18th century as Rio de los 

 Adiais. The trail which from ancient 

 times had connected the Adai villages 

 became the noted "contraband trail" 



