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ADSHU8HEER AGAIHTIKAKA 



iB. A. E. 



(1) in Kep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 1897, (2) iu 

 Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Anthr. i, pt. 



I, 1898; Dall in 8d Rep. B. A. E., 1884; 

 Fewkesin 19th Rep. B. A. E., 1900; Fletch- 

 er in Pubs. Peabodv Mus. ; Matthews (1 ) 

 in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., vi, 1903, (2) 

 in 3d Rep. B. A. E., 1884; Moonev in 19th 

 Rep. B. A. P:., 1900; Moorehead, Prehist. 

 Impls., 1900; Nelson in i8th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1899; Putnam in Peabodv Mus. Rep., 

 Ill, no. 2, 1882; Voth in Am. Anthrop., 



II, 1900; AVissler in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XVIII, pt. 3, 1904. See Art, Artificial 

 Head Defonnation, Beadwork, Clothing, 

 Dyes and Pigments, Featherwork, Ifairdress- 

 ing, Lahrets, Painting, Ornament, (Juill- 

 vork, Shell work. Tattooing, (a. c. f. ) 



Adshusheer. A tribe associated with 

 the Eno and Shakori in North Carolina 

 in 1701. Mooney ( Bull. 22, B. A. E., 1894) 

 says: " It is doubtful if they, at least the 

 Eno and Shoccoree, were of Siouan stock, 

 as they seem to have differed in physique 

 and habit from their neighbors; but as 

 nothing is left of their language, and as 

 their alliances were all with Siouan triljes, 

 they can not well be discriminated." 

 There is but a single mention of the 

 Adshusheer. Lawson (1701) tells of 

 "the Shoccorie Indians, mixed with the 

 Enoe and those of the nation of the 

 Adshusheer, ruled by Enoe Will, a Sho- 

 corrie," the latter residing at Adshusheer, 

 14 m. from Achonechy, and ruling as 

 far w. as Haw, or Reatkin, r. (Hist. 

 Carolina, 96, 97, 1860). The village of 

 the 3 tribes was called Adshusheer, 

 which Mooney locates near the present 

 town of Hillsboro, Durham co., N. C. 

 Nothing is known of their sub.sequent 

 history. The Adshusheer were ])rol)ably 

 absorbed by one of the trilies with which 

 they were associated, (c. t. ) 



Adzes. Cutting, scraping, or gouging 

 implements in prehistoric and early his- 

 toric times, made usually of stone, but 

 not infrequently of shell, bone, or cop- 

 ])er. Iron and steel are much used l)y 



STONE ADZ WITH WOODEN HAFT, HAIDA. (nELSOn) 



the tribes at the present day. The blade 

 resembles that of a celt, although often 

 somewhat curved by chipping or by grind- 

 ing at the proper angle to make it most 

 effectual. Some are grooved for hafting, 

 after the manner of the grooved ax, but 

 the groove does not extend over the flat 

 face against which the handle is fastened. 



The hafting takes various forms accord- 

 ing to the shape and size of the blade. 

 The adz is primarily a wood-working 

 tool, but it serves also for scraping, as iu 

 the dressing of skins and in other arts, 

 and, no doubt also on occasion, for digging. 

 The edge of the primitive adz was prob- 

 ably not sharp enough to make it effec- 

 tual in working wood save in connection 

 with the process of charring. The dis- 

 tribution of this implement was very gen- 

 eral over the area north of Mexico, but it 

 probably reached its highest develop- 

 ment and specialization among the wood- 



RON ADZ WITH IVORY HAFT, ESKIMO. (MURDOCH ) 



working tribes of the x. Pacific coast. 

 The scraper and the gouge have many 

 uses in common with the adz. 



For various examples of the adz, an- 

 i-ient and modern, consult Beauchainp 

 in Bull. N. Y. State Mus., no. 18, 1897; 

 Fowke in 13th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; 

 .Moorehead, Prehist. Impls., 1900; Mur- 

 doch in 9th Rep. B. A. E., 1892; Nelson 

 in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 1899; Niblack in 

 Rei). Nat. Mus. 1888, 1890; Rau in Smith- 

 son. Cont., Axii, 187i5. (w. ii. h. g. f. ) 



Aegakotcheising ( Aegakotcheising) . — An 

 Ottawa village in Michigan in 1851.— 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, i, 478, 1851. 



Aepjin (Dutch for 'little ape'). A 

 Mahican village, known as Aepjin's 

 castle, from the name of the resident 

 chief, situated in the 17th century at or 

 near Schodac, Rensselaer co., N. Y. — 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 86, 1872. 



Aestaca. A Costanoan rancheria con- 

 nected with Santa Cruz mission, Cal., in 

 1819.— Olbez quoted bv Tavlor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Apr. 5, 1860. 



Afegua ( ' bird island ' ). An island off 

 the \v. coast of Lower California, about 

 lat. 31°, on which was once a Cochimi 

 rancheria. — Venegas, Hist. Cal., ii, 436, 

 1757. 



Afognak. A Kaniagmiut settlement 

 consisting of 3 villages on Afognak id., s. 

 of Cook inlet, Alaska (Bruce, Alaska, 

 map, 1895). Pop. 339 in 1880, 409 in 

 1890, 307 in 1900. 



Agacay. A former Timuquanan town 

 on St Johns r., Florida, about 150 m. 

 from the mouth.— Fontaneda (1565) in 

 French, Hist. Coll. La., 2d s., 264, 1875. 



Agaihtikara ( ' tish-eaters'). A divi- 

 sion of the Paviotso living in 1866 in the 

 vicinity of Walker r. and lake and Car- 



