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BATJSri BATZA 



[b. a. e. 



Batni (a gourd vessel in which sacred 

 water is carried; also the name of a 

 spring where sacrificial offerings are de- 

 posited. — Fewkes). According to Ste- 

 phen the site of the first pueblo built by 

 the Snake people of the Hopi; situated 

 in Tusayan, n. e. Ariz., but the exact 

 location is known only to the Indians. 

 It is held as a place of votive offerings 

 during the ceremonv of the Snake dance. 

 Batni.— Stephen in sth Rep. B. A. E., 18, 1891. 



Baton Rouge ( French transl. of Choctaw 

 itu-iuna 'red pole.' — Gatschet). A point 

 on the high banks of the INIississippi, in 

 Louisiana, at which the natives planted 

 a painted pole to mark the boundary be- 

 tween the Bayogoula below and the Hu- 

 nia who extended for 30 leagues above. 

 See Penicaut in Margry, Dec. , v, 395, 1S83. 

 The place is now occupied by the capital 

 of Louisiana. See Bed Stick. 



Batons. As emblems of authority or 

 rank, batons were in common use among 



HAIDA BATON REPRESENTfNG EAGLE AND BEAVER. (nIBLACk) 



the more advanced northern tribes, and 

 probably the most conspicuous modern 



Cal., I, no. I, 1903; Niblack in Rep. Nat. 

 Mus. 1888, 1890; Powers in Cont. N. A. 



BATON OF DEERHORN, FROM AN OHIO MOUND; 1-7. 

 AND MACLEAN COLL. ) 



representatives are the carved wooden 

 batons of the Haida and other northwest- 

 ern tribes. Here they are 

 carried in the hands of chiefs, 

 shamans, and song leaders on 

 state occasions, and are per- 

 mitted only to such person- 

 ages. Weapons of various 

 kinds were similarly used and 

 probably had kindred signifi- 

 cance. In prehistoric times 

 long knives of stone, master- 

 pieces of the chipping art, 

 seem to have been a favorite 

 form of ceremonial weapon, 

 and their use still continues 

 among some of the Pacific 

 slope tribes, especially in Cali- 

 fornia. Batons used in mark- 

 ing time are probably without 

 particular significance as em- 

 blems. Among the Kwakiutl 

 and other tribes the club- 

 shaped batons, carved to rep- 

 resent various animals, are 

 used by the leaders in cere- 

 monial dances and serve for 

 beating time. Consult Boas in Rep. Nat 

 Mus. 1895, 1897; Goddard in Publ. Univ 



Baton of Flint, 

 tennessee(i-9). 

 (thruston) 



KWAKIUTL BATON REPRESENTING A SEA-LION, 



P^thnol., Ill, 1877; Rust and Kroeber in 

 Am. Anthrop., vii, no. 4, 1905. See Clubs, 

 Kniri'S. (w. ii. n. ) 



ivory baton for beating time on a stick; eskimo, 

 (nelson) 



Batture aux Fievres (French: 'Malarial 

 flat'). One of four Dakota (probably 

 Mdewakantonwan) villages near St Pe- 

 ters, Minn., in 1826.— Minn. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., I, 442, 1872. 



Batucari {batuhue 'river,' cari 'house': 

 ' houses ill the river ' ; or batit i ' dove, ' and 

 carl: 'dove houses.' — Buelna). A sub- 

 division of the Cahita, speaking the Va- 

 coregue dialect and formerly subsisting 

 by hunting in the vicinity of a large la- 

 goon 3 leagues from A home, n. Sinaloa, 

 ^lexico. They afterward united with 

 the Ahome people under the Jesuit mis- 

 sionaries and abandoned their wandering 

 life. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 58, 322, 1864. 

 Batuearis. — Century Cyclopedia, 1894 (misprint). 



Batuco ('shallow water.' — Och). A 

 former pueblO of the Eudeve division of 

 the Opata, on the Rio Oposura, a w. 

 branch of the Rio Yaqui, a league n. of 

 Santa Maria Batuco, about lat. 29° 

 30^, Sonora, Mexico. It became the seat 

 of the Jesuit mission of San Javier 

 about 1629. Pop. 480 in 1678, 188 in 

 1730. 



San Javier de Batuco. — Zapata (1678) in Doc. 

 Hist. .Mex., 4th s., ni. 357, 1857. S. Francisco 

 Javier Batuco. — Bancroft, No. Mex. State.**, i. 246, 

 ism;. Vatuco.— Och ( 17,56) ,Nachrichten, i, 72, 1S09. 



Batuco. A former pueblo of the Ojiata 

 on the Rio Oposura, a w. tributary of the 

 Yaqui, 8 leagues e. of San Jose Matape, 

 in Sonora, Mexico. It was apparently 

 the Batuco that was visited by Coronado's 

 army in 1540-42, and was the seat of the 

 Jesuit mission of Santa ]Maria founded 

 in 1629. Population 428 in 1678, 212 in 

 1730. 



Asuncion Batuco. — Bancroft, No. Me.x. States, i, 

 246, l.ssl. Batuco,— Castaiieda( 1.596) in 14th Rep. 

 B. \. E., 5o7, 1S96. Santa Karia Batuco, — Zapata 

 (1678) in Doc. Hist. Mex.. 4th s., in, 356, 1S57. 

 Sta Uaria Tepuspe, — Doc. of 1730 cited by Ban- 

 croft, op. cit., 513 (same?). 



Batza. A Koyukukhotana village on 

 Batza r., Alaska, long. 154°. 

 Batzakakat, — Allen, Rep. on Alaska, 123, 1877. 



