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ASA ASHIVAK 



[b. a. e. 



(Tansy mustard), Kwingyap (Oak), Hos- 

 boa (Chapparalcock), Posiwu (Magpie), 

 Chisro (Snow bunting), Puchkohu 

 (Boomerang hunting-stick), and Pisha 

 (Field-mouse) clans. In early days this 

 people lived near Abiquiu, in the Chama 

 r. region of New Mexico, at a village called 

 Kaekibi, and stopped successively at the 

 pueblos of Santo Domingo, Laguna, 

 Acoma, and Zuiii before reaching Tusa- 

 yan, some of their families remaining at 

 each of these pueblos, except Acoma. 

 At Zuiii their descendants form the 

 Aiyaho clan. On reaching Tusayan the 

 Posiwu, Puchkohu, and Pisha clans set- 

 tled with the Hopi Badger clan at 

 Awatobi, the remainder of the group 

 continuing to and settling first at Coyote 

 spring near the e. side of Walpi mesa, 

 under the gap, and afterward on the mesa 

 at the site of the modern Hano. This 

 village the Asa afterward abandoned, on 

 account of drought and disease, and went 

 to Canyon de Chelly, about 70 m. n. e. 

 of Waljii, in the territory of the Navaho, 

 to which tribe many of their women were 

 given, whose descendants constitute a 

 numerous clan known among the Navaho 

 as Kinaani (High-standing house). Here 

 the Asa lost their language, and here they 

 planted peach trees in the lowlands; but 

 a (piarrel with the Navaho caused their 

 return to Hano, at which pueblo the 

 Tewa, from the Rio Grande, in the mean- 

 time had settled. This was probably be- 

 tween 1700 and 1710. The Asa were 

 taken to Walpi and given a strip of 

 ground on the e. edge of the mesa, where 

 they constructed their dwellings, but 

 a number of them afterward removed 

 with some of the Lizard and Bear people 

 to Sichumovi. See the works cited be- 

 low, also Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 610, 1900; Mindeleff, ibid., 639. (f.w. h. ) 



Asa.— Stephen and Mindeleff in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 

 30-31, 1.H91. Asanyumu. — Ibi^d. {di/u-iiiu = ' phrii- 

 try'). — Tca'-kwai-na nyu-mu. — Fewkes in Am. 

 Anthro])., VII, 404, 1S94 (»//»-)((« = 'phratry'; like- 

 wise called A'-.sa-nyu-mfl). 



Asa. The Tansy Mustard clan of the 

 Asa i)hratry of the Hopi. 

 A'-sa.— Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 39, 1891. 

 As-wun-wii. — Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vii, 404, 



1S94 ( ((1(7 n-ivil = ' clan ' ) . 



Asahani. One of the 7 clans of the 

 Cherokee. The name can not be inter- 

 preted, but it may. have archaic connec- 

 tion with sa^kavi, sa'bmigel, 'blue.' It 

 does not refer to cutting of the ears, as 

 has been asserted, (.t. m.) 



A-sa-ha'-ni. — Mooney, Cherokee MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1885 (Cherokee form; pi., A'-ni'-sa-ha'-nl). 

 Uesonee.— Haywood, Tenn., 27C, 1823. 



Asao. An unidentified town formerly 

 on Amelia id., Nassau co., n. e. Fla. A 

 mission was established there about 1592 

 by Spanish Franciscans, but it was de- 

 stroyed by the natives in their revolt 



against the missionaries in 1597. — Shea, 

 Cath. Miss., 66, 1855. 



Asapalaga. A former Seminole village 

 located on some maps on the e. bank of 

 St Marks r., Fla., below Yapalaga. Tay- 

 lor's war map places it, probably cor- 

 rectly, on theE. bank of Apalachicola r., 

 in Gadsden co., where Appalaga now is. 

 Asapalaga. — Jefferys, French Dom. Am., i, map, 

 135, 1761. Aspalaga.— Roberts, Fla., 14, 1763. 



Ascahcutoner. Mentioned bv Balbi 

 (Atlas Ethnog., 33, 1826) as a tribe be- 

 longing to his Sioux-Osage family, appa- 

 rently associating them with the Teton. 

 Not identified. The final part of the 

 term suggests Kutenai. 



Aseakum. A Samish village in N. w. 

 Washington. — Gibbs, MS. Clallam vocab., 

 no. 38, B. A. E. 



Aseik [Ase^h:). One of the three 

 Bellacoola towns of the Talio division at 

 the head of South Bentinck arm, British 

 Columbia. — Boas in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., II, 49, 1898. 

 A'seq.— Boas in 7th Rep. N.W. Tribes, 3, 1891. 



Asenane {Ass' none). A former Bella- 

 coola town on Bellacoola r., British 

 Columbia. — Boas in 7th Rep. N. W. 

 Tribes, 3. 1891. 



Ashamomuck. Probably a Corchaug vil- 

 lage whose name was later attached to a 

 white settlement on its site in Suffolk co.. 

 Long id., N. Y. — Thompson, Long Id., 

 181, 18,39. 



Ashbochia. A band or division of the 

 Crows. 



Ash-bot-chee-ah. — Morgan, Ane. Soc., 159, 1877. 

 Treacherous lodges. — Culbertson in Smithson. 

 Rep. 1850, 144, 1851. 



Ashegen. A Yurok village on the coast 

 of California, 5 or 6 m. s. of the mouth 

 of Klamath r. (a. l. k.) 

 Osse-gon,— Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 

 133, 1.S59. 



Ashihi ('salt'). A Navaho clan. 

 Acihi. — Matthews in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 

 104, 1890. Acihi^ine.— Ibid. A.sihi.— Matthews, 

 Navaho Legends, 30, 1897. A.sihidine'.— Ibid. 



Ashimuit (from ashim, 'a spring,' in 

 the Nauset dialect). A village in 1674 

 at a large spring in Barnstable co., Mass., 

 near the junction of Falmouth, Mashpee, 

 and Sandwich townships. It probably 

 belonged to the Nauset. (.i. m. ) 

 Ashimuit,— Bourne (1674) in Ma.ss. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 1st ser., I, 197, 1806. Shumuit.— Ibid. 



Ashinadea ( 'lost lodges'). A band or 

 division of the Crows. 

 Ah-shin'-na-de'-ah.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 159, 1877. 



Ashipak ('in the basket'). A Karok 

 village on Klamath r. , a few miles above 

 the mouth of Salmon r., in Siskiyou co., 

 N. w. Cal. 

 Hakh-kutsor,— Kroeber, inf'n, 1904 (Yurok name). 



Ashipoo. An unidentified village on a 

 stream between Edisto and Combahee r., 

 S. C, about 12 m. from the coast. — Brion 

 de la Tour, map U. S., 1784. 



Ashivak. A Kaniagmiut village near 

 C. Douglas, Alaska; pop. 46 in 1880. — 

 Petroff, 10th Census, Alaska, 28, 1884. 



