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A-iNEO Basket with Deer 



SKIN TOP AND DRAW-STRIN< 



(,-4) 



about Bering str. manufactured both 

 woven mattings and wallets and coiled 

 basketry of pliable grass. The Aleutian 

 islanders are now among the most refined 

 artisans in twined work. South of them 

 the Tlingit and the Ilaida aL^o prac- 

 tise twined work only. 

 From British Colum- 

 bia, beginning with the 

 Salishan tribes, south- 

 ward to the borders of 

 Mexico, the greatest 

 variety of basket mak- 

 ing in every style of 

 weaving is practised. 



Consult Mason, Abo- 

 riginal American Bas- 

 ketry, Rep. Nat. Mus. 

 1902, 1904, and the bib- 

 liography therein; also 

 Barrett in Am. Anthrop., vii, no. 4, 1905; 

 Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xvii, 

 pt. I, 1902; Kroeber in Univ. Cal. Publ., 11, 

 1905; Goddard, ibid; Willoughby in Am. 

 Anthrop., vii, no. 1, 1905. See Art, Arts 

 and Industries, Weaving, (o. t. m. ) 



Basonopa. A Tepehuane pueblo in the 

 SierraMadre, on the head waters of the Rio 

 del Fuerte, s. w. Chihuahua, Mexico. — 

 Orozco y Berra, Geog., 324, 1864. 



Basosuma. A rancheria, seemingly of 

 the Sobaipuri, 12 Sp. leagues e. of the mis- 

 sion of Suamca, probably in the vicinity 

 of the s. boundary of Arizona, s. of Ft 

 Huachuca; visited bv Kino and Mange in 

 1697. 



San Joaquin de Basosuma.— Kino (1697) in Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s.. I, 276, 1856. S. Joaquin.— Ber- 

 niil (1697) quoted bv Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 

 356, 1889. 



Basotutcan. Apparently a former ran- 

 cheria of the Papago, visited by Kino in 

 1701; situated on the Rio Salado, 28 m. 

 below Sonoita, n. w. Sonora, Mexico. 



Basotucan. — Kino (1701) quoted by Bancroft, No. 

 Mex. States, I, 495, 1886. J. Jose Ramos Ayodsu- 

 dao. — Ibid. 



Basque influence. The Basque fisher- 

 men who frequented the fishing grounds 

 of the N. E. Atlantic in the i6th and 

 17th centuries influenced to some ex- 

 tent the Indians of New France and 

 Acadia. But such influence was only of 

 a temporary character, and the relations 

 of the Indians with the Basques were 

 only such as naturally came from the 

 industry pursued by the latter. Les- 

 carbot (Hist. Nouv. France, 695, 1612) 

 states that a sort of jargon had arisen 

 between the French and Bascpie fisher- 

 men and traders and the Indians, in 

 which ' ' a good deal of Basque was mixed, ' ' 

 but does not give examples of it. (See 

 Reade, The Basques in North America, in 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 1888, sec. 11, pp. 

 21-39. ) Attempts have been made to 

 detect pre-Columbian influences through 

 alleged lexical and other resemblances 



between Basque and Indian languages, 

 but without success, (a. f. c. ) 



Bastita. A Huichol rancheria and re- 

 ligious iilace, containing a temple; situ- 

 ated about 12 in. s. w. of San Andres 

 Coamiata, q. v. — Lumholtz, Unknown 

 Max., Ill, 16, 72, map, 1902. 



Baston. La Salle in 1681 speaks of the 

 Indians of Baston, by which he means 

 those adjacent to Boston and that part of 

 New England.— La Salle (1681) in Mar- 

 gry, Dec, 11, 148, 1877. 



Batacosa. A Mayo settlement on a 

 small independent stream w. of the Rio 

 de los Cedros, an arm of the Rio Mayo, 

 s. w. Sonora, Mexico. 



San Bartolome Batacosa. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 856, 1S64. 



Batawat. A division of the Wishosk 

 formerly living about the lower course of 

 Mad r.jN. w. Cal. In 1851 McKee said 

 of them: "This band has been permitted 

 to live at their present rancheria only 

 upon condition that they confine them- 

 selves to the immediate neighborhood of 

 the mouth of the river, and not come 

 into the town." 



Mad river Indians. — McKee in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 

 32d Cong., spec, sess., 155, 18.53. Pat-a-wat.— 

 Powers in Cent. N. A. Ethnol., hi, 96, 1877. 



Batepito ( ' where the water turns ' (Rudo 

 Ensayo) , doubtless in allusion to the bend 

 of the river). An Opata pueblo in n. w. 

 Sonora, Mexico, about lat. 31°, on the 

 upper waters of the Rio Babispe, a tribu- 

 tary of the Rio Yaqui. 



Batepito,— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 343, 1864. Vate- 

 pito. — Rudo Ensavo (1762), Guiteras trans., 219, 

 1894. 



Batequi ('a well.' — Buelna). Appar- 

 ently a rancheria of the Soba or the Papago 

 proper; placed e. of the Rio Altar in n. w. 

 Sonora, Mexico, on early Spanish maps, 

 as that of Kino (1701) in Bancroft, No. 

 Mex. States, i, 499, 1884. Not to be con- 

 founded with the Tadeo Baqui of the 

 Maricopa, which bears also a similar 

 name. (f. w. h. ) 



Batesopa. A former Opata village on 

 the Rio Babispe, e. of Guachinera, in 

 N. E. Sonora, Mexico. Repeatedly at- 

 tacked by Indians from Chihuahua, it 

 was abandoned, its inhabitants finally 

 settling at Guachinera. — Bandelier in 

 Arch. Inst. Pap., iii, 59, 1890; iv, 519, 

 1892. See Baquigopa. 



Bat House. A ruined pueblo of the 

 Hopi, probably so named from its hav- 

 ing been built and occupied by the 

 Bat clan; situated on the n. w. side of 

 Jeditoh valley, n. e. Ariz., on part of 

 the mesa occupied by the Horn House. 

 See 8th Rep. B. A. E., 52, 1891. 



Batista (Span. : Bautista ?) Mentioned 

 as one of the former two principal vil- 

 lages of the Koasati, on lower Trinity r., 

 Tex. — Bollaert in Jour. Ethnol. Soc. 

 Lond., II, 282, 1850. 



