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AMITOK AMUSEMENTS 



[b. a. e. 



were probably related to the Quapaw; if 

 not, they may have been Caddoan. 



Aminoia.— La Siille (1679) in Margry, Dec, ll, 41, 

 1877. Daminoia.— Hennepin (1683), Shea trans., 

 163,1880. Minoia,— Coxe, Carolana, 22, 1741. Mi- 

 noya,— (Jentleman of Elvas (1567) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., 11, 206, 1850. 



Amitok ( 'narrow' ) . A winter settlement 

 of the Amitormiut on the e. coast of Mel- 

 ville peninsula. 



Amitigoke.— Gilder, Schwatka's Search, 181,1881. 

 Amitioke.— Parry, Second Voy., 206, 1824. Amit- 

 tioke.— Ibid., map, 197. Amitoq.— Boas in 6th 

 Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888. Amityook.— Lyon, Pri- 

 vate Jonr,, 406, 1825. 



Amitormiut ( ' inhabitants of the nar- 

 row place.' — Boas). An Eskimo tribe on . 

 the E. coast of Melville penin. Their 

 principal village is Amitok, from which 

 they take their name. — Gilder, Schwat- 

 ka's Search, 181, 1881. 



Amivik. An Angmagsalingmiut settle- 

 ment on Angmagsalik tiord, e-. Green- 

 land. ^Holm, P^thnol. Skizze af Angmag- 

 salikerne, 14, 1887. 



Ammoncongan. A village, probably be- 

 longing to the Abnaki, oh the n. e. side of 

 Presuinpscot r., at Saccarappa falls, Cum- 

 berland CO., Me.— Deed of 1657 in Me. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., I, 118, 1865. 



Aumoughcawgen,— Smith (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 3d s., VI, 97, 1837. Aumuckcawgen,— Ibid., 

 117. Aumughcawgen,— Smith (1631), ibid., ill, 22, 

 1833. 



Amo. A pueblo of the province of 

 Atripuy in the region of the lower part 

 of the' Rio Grande, N. Mex., in 1598.— 

 Onate (1598) in Doc. Ined., xvi, 115, 1871. 



Amolomol {Amr/loniul). A former Ciiu- 

 mashan village at the old wharf at Santa 

 Barbara, Cal.— Henshaw, Buenaventura 

 MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Amonces. A tribe or division, presum- 

 ably of the Yokuts, said to have lived on 

 San Joacjuin r., Cal., in 1854. — Henlev in 

 Ind: Aff. Rep., 512, 1854. 



Amonokoa. A band of the Illinois 

 about 1680. — Hennepin, New Disc, 310, 

 1698. 



Amanakoa.— La Salle (1680) quoted in Hist. Mag., 

 Ists., V, 197, 1861. 



Amoque. A former Maricopa rancheria 

 on Gila r., s. Ariz. — Sedelmair (1744) 

 quoted by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 

 366, 1889. 



Amoskeag {namos 'small fish,' ktig 'to 

 take': 'one takes small fish'). A small 

 tribe or band of the Pennacook confed- 

 eracy, living about 1675 in a village of 

 the same name at Amoskeag falls, on Mer- 

 rimac r., in Hillsboro co., N. H. This 

 village was the residence of Wannalanset, 

 head chief of the Pennacook confederacy, 

 son of Passacounaway. 



Amoskeag.— Hubbard (1680) in Mass. Hist. Sor. 

 Coll., 2d s., v, 32, 1815. Naamhok.— Gookin (1677) 

 in Trans. Am. Antiq, Soc, ll, 462, 1836. Naam- 

 keeks.— Gookin (1674) in Mass. HM. Soc. Coll., 1st 

 s., I, 149, 1806. Namaoskeags.— Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, v, 221, 1855. Namaschaug.— Owaneco (1700) 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hi.st., iv, 614, 1854. Namaske.— 

 Eliot («(. 16.50) in Mass. Hist. Soc Coll., 3d s., 

 IV, 123, 1834. Namekeake.— Gookin (1677) quoted 

 bv Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 2, 11.5, 1848 (near Chelm.s- 



■ford, Mass.; same?). Kamkeake — Gookin (1677) in 

 Trans. Am. Antiii. Soc, ii, 518, 1836 (same?). 



Ampalamuyu. A Lakiniut band near 

 Luckiamute r., Oreg. — Gatschet, Lakmiut 

 MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1877. 



Ampishtna. The- Lakmiut name of a 

 l>and of the Calapooya pro])er, resid- 

 ing K. of upper Willamette r. , Oreg. — 

 Gatschet, Lakmiut MS., B. A. E., 1877. 



Amu {AmiV). The Ant clan of the 

 Pecos tribe of New Mexico. — Hodge, field 

 notes, B. A. E., 1895. 



Amulet, See Fetish. 



Amusaya. Mentioned as a Timucua 

 clan of the Apohola phratry. — Pareja 

 [ra. 1612) quoted bv Gatschet in Am. 

 Philos. Soc. Proc, xvii, 492, 1878. 



Amusements. When not bound down 

 l)y stern necessity, the Indian at home 

 was occupied much of the time with 

 dancing, feasting, gaming, and story-tell- 

 ing. Though most of the dances were 

 religious or otherwise ceremonial in 

 character, there were some which had 

 no other purpose than that of social 

 pleasure. They might take place in the 

 day or the night, be general or confined 

 to i^articular societies, and usually were" 

 accompanied with the drum or other 

 musical instrument to accentuate the 

 song. The rattle was perhaps invariably 

 u.sed only in ceremonial dances. Many 

 dances were of pantomimic or dramatic 

 character, and the Eskimo had regular 

 pantomime plays, though evidently due 

 to Indian infiuence. The giving of pres- 

 ents was often a feature of the dance, as 

 was betting of all athletic contests and 

 ordinary games. The amusements of the 

 Eskimo and extreme northern tribes were 

 chiefly athletic, such as racing, wrestling, 

 throwing of heavy stones, and tossing in a 

 blanket. From Hudson bay to the (iulf 

 of Mexico, and from the Atlantic to. the 

 border of the plains, the great athletic 

 game was the ball play, now adopted 

 among civilized games under the name 

 of Jacrosse. In the N. it was played with 

 one racket, and in the S. with two. Ath- 

 letes were regularly trained for this game, 

 and competitions were frequently in- 

 tertribal. The wheel-and-stick game in 

 one form or another was well-nigh uni- 

 versal. As played in the E. one gamester 

 rolled forward a stone disk, or wheel, 

 while his opponent slid after it a stick 

 curved at one end in such a way that tlie 

 wheel, when it fell to the ground, rested 

 within the crook of the stick. On the 

 plains and in the S. W. a wooden wheel, 

 frequently netted, took the i)lace of the 

 stone disk. Like most Indian institu- 

 tions, the game often had a symbolic sig- 

 nificance in connection with a sun myth. 

 A sacred variant of the game was played 

 l)y the priests for divinatory purposes, or 

 even as a sort of votive ceremony to pro- 

 cure the recovery of a patient. Target 



