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ASTIALAKWA ATANUS 



[B. A. E. 



era (Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 267, 1877) 

 as most miserable and squalid, having 

 been brutalized not only by their scanty 

 and inferior diet, l)ut also by the loss of 

 their comeliest maidens and best young 

 men, who were carried off into slavery 

 by the Modoc. 



Astakaywas.— Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 412, 

 1874. Astakywich,— Ibid. Astaqkewa,— Curtin, 

 MS. Ilmawi vocab., B. A. E., bssy. Es-ta-ke'- 

 wach.— I'owers in Cf)nt. N. A. Etlinol.,,111, 267, 

 1877. Hot Spring Valley Indians. — Ibid, (includes 

 also the Hantewa). 



Astialakwa. A former pueblo of the 

 Jemez, on the summit of a mesa that 

 separates San Diego and Guadelupe can- 

 yons at their mouths. It was probably 

 the seat of the Franciscan m^ission of San 

 Juan, established early in the 17th cen- 

 tury. Distinct from Ostyalakwa. 

 Asht-ia-la-qua.— Bandelitr in Arch. Inst. Papers. 

 Ill, 126, 1S90. Ash-tyal-a-qua.— Ibid., iv, 206, 1892- 

 Asht-ya-laqua. — BandelierinProe.Cong.Internat. 

 Am., VII, 452, 1890. Astialakwa.— Hodge, field 

 notes, B. A. E., 1895. Ateyala-keokva. — Loew in 

 Wheeler Survey Rep., vii, 3-13, 1879. 



Astina. A village in n. Florida in 156-4, 

 subject to lUina, head chief of the Tim- 

 ueua (Laudonniere in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., n. s., 298, 1869). De Bry's map 

 (1590) places it w. of St Johns r. 



Astouregamigoukh. Mentioned as one 

 of the small tribes n. of St Lawrence r. 

 (Jes. Eel. 1643, in. 38, 1858). Probably 

 a Montagnafs band or settlement about 

 the "headwaters of Saguenay or St Mau- 

 rice r. 



Asumpcion. A group of Alchedoma 

 rancherias on or near the llio Colorado, 

 in California, more than 50 m. below the 

 mouth of Bill Williams fork. They were 

 visited and so named bv Fray Francisco 

 Garces in 1776.— Garces," Diary, 426, 1900. 



Asystarca. A former Costanoan village 

 of central California attached to the mis- 

 sion of San Juan Bautista. — Engelhardt, 

 Franciscans in Cal., 398, 1897. 



Ataakut. A village of the Tolowa for- 

 merly situated on the coast of n. Cal. — 

 Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 236, 

 1890. 



A'-ta-a-kiit'. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 

 236, 1890 (Tutu name). A'-ta-a-kiit'-ti.— Ibid. 

 (Tutu name). A-ta-ke-te tun'-ne.— Donsey, MS. 

 Chetco vocab., B. A. E., 1884. Ni-yaiik'-ta-ke'-te 

 te'-ne.— Dorsey, MS. Smith R. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1884. Yah-nih-kahs.— Hamilton, IMS. Hay-narg- 

 ger vocab., B. A. E. Yantuckets. — Bancroft, Nat. 

 Races, I, 445, 1874. Yatuckets.— Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, .Tune 8, 1860. Yau-tuck-ets.— Ibid., Apr. 

 12,1861. Yon-tocketts.— Hamilton, MS. Hay-narg- 

 ger vocab., B A. E. 



Ataakwe ('seed people'). A people 

 encountered by the Zuni before reaching 

 their final residing place at Zuni, N. Mex. 

 They joined the Seed clan of the Zuni, 

 whose descendants constitute the present 

 Taakwe, or Corn clan, of that tribe. — 

 Gushing in The Millstone, ix, 2, 23, 1884. 

 A'-ta-a. — Gushing, ibid. 



Ata-culculla. See AttaknUakvlla. 



Atagi. One of the 4 Alibamu towns for- 

 merly situated in what is now Autauga co., 



Ala., extending 2 m. along the w. bank 

 of Alabama r., a short distance w. of 

 the present IMontgomery. Autaugaville, 

 Autauga cr. , and Autauga co. are named 

 after it. Hawkins (1798) speaks of it as 

 a small village 4 m. below Pawokti, and 

 says that the people have little inter- 

 course with the whites but are hospitable. 

 Schooler (Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iv, 

 578, 1854) states that it containecl 54 

 families in 1832. (a. s. g. ) 

 At-tau-gee.— Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 36, 1848. 

 Autallga. — Sen. Ex. Doc. 425, 24th Cong., Istsess., 

 331, ISi^C. Autauga.— Campbell (1836) in H. R. 

 Doc. 271. 25th ( :(ing., 2d sess., 20, 1838. Autobas.— 

 Swan (1791) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 262, 

 18.55. Dumplin Town. — Woodward, Reminis- 

 cences, 12, 1859. 



Atalans. An imaginary prehistoric 

 civilized race of North America (Rafin- 

 esque, introd. to Marshall, Ky., i, 23, 

 1824); probably based on the Atiantis 

 fable. 



Atamasco lily. The name of a plant 

 {Amariillis atamasco), defined by Bart- 

 lett (Diet, of Americanisms, 20, 1877) 

 " as a small one-flowered lily, held in like 

 esteem, in Virginia and North Carolina, 

 with the daisy in England." Parkinson 

 (Paradisus, 87, 1629) says that " the In- 

 dians in Virginia do call it Attamusco." 

 Gerard {Sim, N. Y., July 30, 1895) states 

 that the word means ' stained with red,' 

 in reference to the color of the flowers. 

 In this case the chief component would 

 be the AlgoiKjuian radical misk, signi- 

 fying 'red.' (.\. F. c. ) 



Atana {Atci^na). A Haida town on 

 House, or Atana, id., e. coast of Moresby 

 id.. Queen Charlottegroup, British Colum- 

 bia. According to Skidegate legend. 

 House id. was the second to appear above 

 the waters of the flood. At that time 

 there was sitting upon it a woman who 

 became the ancestress of the Tadjilanas. 

 The Kagialskegawai also considered her 

 as their "grandmother," although saying 

 that they were not descended directly 

 from her but from some people who 

 drifted ashore at the same place in a 

 cockleshell. The town was occupied by 

 the Tadjilanas. As the name does not 

 occur in John Work's list, it would seem 

 to have been abandoned prior to 1836- 

 41.— Swanton, Cont. Haida, 277, 1905. 



Atanekerdluk. An Eskimo settlement 

 on Nugsuak pen., w. Greenland. — Peary, 

 My. Arct. Jour., 208, 1893. 



Atangime. A settlement of Eskimo in 

 E. Greenland. — INIeddelelser om Gron- 

 land, xxv, 24, 1902. 



Atanumlema. A small Shahaptian tribe 

 living on Yakima res., on Atanum cr.. 

 Wash. The^are said to speak a dia- 

 lect closelv related to the Yakima and 

 Klikitat.— Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 

 738, 1896. 



Atanns {m.ta^nAS, 'bilge- water'). A 

 Skittagetan town, occupied by the Do- 



