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Batzulnetas. An Ahtena village near 

 upper Copper r., where the trail starts 

 for Tanana r., Alaska; lat. 62° 58^, long. 

 145° 22^ (post route map, 1903). Pop. 31 

 men, 10 women, and 15 children in 1885. 

 Batzulneta's village. — Allen, Rep. on Alaska, 121, 

 18S7. 



Bauka. A former Maidu village on the 

 right bank of Feather r., near Gridley, 

 Butte CO., Cal. (r. b. d. ) 

 Bogas.— Ind. AfF. Rep., 124, 1850. Boka.— Powers 

 in Cont.N. A. Ethnol., HI, 282,1877. Booku.—Curtin, 

 MS. vocab.,B.A.E. 1885. 



Bawiranachiki ( ' red water place ' ) . A 

 Tarahumare rancheria in Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. — Lumholtz, inf'n, 1894. 



Bayberry wax. A product of the bay- 

 berry, or wax myrtle {Myrica cerifera), 

 the method of extracting which was 

 learned from the Indians by the New 

 England colonists whose descendants 

 probably still use it. It was esteemed 

 for the manufacture of candles and tal- 

 low on account of its fragrance. See 

 Ragles in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc, 2d ser., 

 VIII, 252, 1819; Alice Morse Earle, Customs 

 and Fashions of Old New England, 126, 

 1893. (a. F. c.) 



Bay du Noc. A Chippewa (?) band 

 mentioned in the Detroit treaty of 1855 

 (U. S. Ind. Treaties, 614, 1873). They 

 probably lived on Noquet bay of L. 

 jNIichigan, in upper Michigan. 



Bayogoula( Choctaw: Bayuk-okia'hayon 

 people' ). A Muskhogean tril)e Avhich in 

 1700 lived with the Mugulasha in a village 

 on the w. bank of the Mississippi, about 64 

 leagues above its mouth and 30 leagues 

 below the Huma town. Lemoyne d' Iber- 

 ville "(Margry, Dec, IV, 170-172, 1880) 

 gives a brief description of their village, 

 which he says contained 2 temples and 107 

 cabins; that a fire was kept constantly 

 burning in the temples, and near the 

 door were kept many figures of animals, 

 as the bear, wolf, birds, and in particular 

 the cJioucoudchn, or opossum, which ap- 

 peared to be a chief deity or image to 

 which offerings were made. At this time 

 they numbered 200 to 250 men, probably 

 including the Mugulasha. Not long after 

 the IJayogoula almost exterminated the 

 Mugulasha as the result of a dispute be- 

 tween the chiefs of the two tribes, but 

 the former soon fell victims to a similar 

 act of treachery, since having received the 

 Tonica into their village in 1706, they 

 were surprised and almost all massacred 

 by their perfidious guests (La Harpe, 

 Jour. Hist. La., 98, 1831). Smallpox 

 destroyed most of the remainder, so 

 that by 1721 not a family was known to 

 exist, (a. s. g. c. t. ) 



Babayoulas. — Baudry desLoziere.s, Vov., 241, 1802. 

 Baiagoulas.— de Sauvole (1700) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., ni, 224-240, 1851. Baiougoula.— Gravier 

 (1701) in Shta, Early Voyages. 150, iri'.i, isci. Baya- 

 gola.— Coxe, Carolana, map, 1741. Bayagoubas.— 

 Jetferys, French Dom. Am., l, 147, HOI. Baya- 

 goulas,— d'Iberville in French, Hi.st. Coll. La., 



n, 67, 1875. Baya-Ogoulas.— Pcnicaut (1703), ibid., 

 n. s., I, 85, note, IstJO. Bayogola, — Co.xe, Caro- 

 lana, 7, 1741. Bayogoulas. — d'Iberville in Margry, 

 Dt^c, IV, 169, 1880. Bayonne Ogoulas.— Jetferys, 

 French, Dom. Am., i, 1(54, 1761. Bayouo Agoulas. — 

 McKenneyand Hall, Ind. Tribes, iii, so, l,s54. Bay- 

 ouc Ogoulas. — Le Page du Pratz., La., i, 271, 1774. 

 Bayuglas.— N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vn, 641, 1856. 



Bayou. A sluggish stream forming the 

 inlet or outlet of a lake or bay, or con- 

 necting two bodies of water or a branch 

 of a river flowing through a delta. The 

 generally accepted etymology from the 

 French boyau 'gut', is wrong (Chamber- 

 lain in Nation, lix, 381, 1894). Accord- 

 ing to Gatschet (Creek Migr., Leg., i, 113, 

 1884) the Choctaw word for a smaller 

 river, or a river forming part of a delta, 

 is hdyuk, and the word comes into Eng- 

 lish through the French, from this or a 

 closely related ^Muskhogean dialect. The 

 same word appears in another form in the 

 hogue of such Louisiana and Mississippi 

 place-names as Boguechito, Boguefalala, 

 Boguelusa, representing in a French form 

 the contracted 6o/i-, from hdyuk. (a. f. c. ) 



Bayou Chicot (Creole French: chicot, 

 *snag, ' 'tree-stump'). A former Choctaw 

 village s. of Cheneyville, St Landry par- 

 *ish. La. 



Bayacchito. — d'Iberville (1699) in Margry, Di5c., 

 IV, 155, 1880. Bayou Chico.— Claiborne (1808) In 

 Am. State Pap., Ind. Aff., i, 75.5, 1832. 



Bayu. A former Maidu village at Sandy 

 gulch, Butte CO., Cal. It was located by 

 Powers on Feather r., and there may 

 possibly have been a second village of 

 the same name at that place, (r. b. d. ) 

 Bai'-yu.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 282, 

 1877. Bayu.— Powell in 7th Rep. B. A. E., 100, 1891. 

 Biyous. — Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 420, 1874. 



Bazhi. An Ikogmiut village on the 

 Yukon at the upper mouth of Innoko r., 

 Alaska. 



Bazhigagat. — Tikhmenief (1861) quoted by Baker, 

 Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1901. 



Bead'wrork. Attractive and precious 

 objects, perforated usually through the 

 middle and strung for various purposes, 

 constitute a class of ornaments univer- 

 sally esteemed, which the Indians of 

 North America did not fail to develop. 

 Akin to beads, and scarcely separable 

 from them, were objects from the same 

 materials called pendants. They were 

 perforated near the end or edge and hung 

 on the person or on garments. All were 

 made from mineral, vegetal, or animal 

 substances, and after the discovery the 

 introduction of beads of glass and porce- 

 lain, as well as that of metal tools for mak- 

 ing the old varieties, greatly multiplied 

 their employment. Mineral substances 

 showing pretty colored or brilliant sur- 

 faces, from which beads were mafle, were 

 copper, hematite, all kinds of quartz, ser- 

 pentine, magnetite, slate, soapstone, tur- 

 quoise, encrinite sections, pottery, and, in 

 later times, silver and other metals, porce- 

 lain, and glass. They were of many sizes 

 and shapes. Among vegetal substances 



