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?ally strung and worn, and the Mandan 

 and other Missouri r. tribes pounded and 

 melted p;lass and molded it into beads. 

 After the colonization cradles and articles 

 of skin were profusely covered with bead- 

 work replete with symbolism. The Yu- 

 kon-Mackenzie tribes were most skilful 

 in quillwork, but later decked their gar- 

 ments and other useful things with glass 

 beads. All along the Pacific slope den- 

 talium, abalone, and clam shells fur- 

 nish the most valuable materials. The 

 length of the wrought bead represented a 

 certain amount of work and established 

 the money value. The price of dentalium 

 shells increased rapidly after a certain 

 length was exceeded. These beads were 

 decorated with grass, skin, and feathers 

 to enhance their worth. The California 

 coast tribes and the ancient peoples of 

 Santa Barbara ids. were rich in the little 

 flat-shell disks as well as the stone drill, 

 and they knew how to reduce them to 

 uniform diameter by rolling long strings 

 of them between slabs or through grooves 

 in sandstone. The tribes of the x. part 

 of the interior basin were not well sup- 

 plied with bead material, but early 

 made the acquaintance of the trader. A 

 series of Ute costumes made before the 

 advent of glass shows much pretty deco- 

 ration in dewclaws, bits of goat and sheep 

 horn, and perforated seeds. The Pueblo 

 Indians string the yellow capsules of 8ola- 

 num, sections of woody stems of plants, 

 seashells, turquoise and other varieties 

 of bright-colored stones, of which they 

 have great store. The Hyde Expedition 

 found more than 30,000 turquoise beads in 

 a single room at Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex. 

 The Huichol, with colored beads of glass, 

 using wax as an adhesive, make pretty 

 mosaic figures on gourds, carved images 

 of wood, etc. 



Consult Beauchamp in Bull. N. Y. State 

 Mus., no. 73, 1903; Catlin, N. A. Inds., 

 1841; Hoffman in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1896; Mason in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1899, 485- 

 510, 1901; Matthews, Ethnog. and Philol. 

 Hidatsa, 18, 1877; Nelson in 18th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1899; Holmes, Annals, i, 271, 

 1829; Sumner, Hist. Am. Currency, 4, 8, 

 1874; Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 

 1877; Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1902; 

 Pepper in Am. Anthrop., vii, no. 2, 1905. 

 See Adornment, Art, Ai^ti^ and Industries, 

 Bctsketry, Cop2)er, Quilhvork, Shellwork, 

 Turquoise, Wampum, and artii-les on the 

 various raw materials mentioned above 

 as having been used for beads. ( o. t. m. ) 



Bear Kiver. A tribe mentioned by 

 Lawson (N. C, 383, 1860) as living in 

 North Carolina in 1701, and having then 

 a single village, Raudauquaquank, with 

 50 warriors. According to Hawks ( Hist. 

 N. C, 1858-59) they lived in Craven co., 

 probably on a branch of the Neuse. 



Beaubassin. A (Micmac?) mission es- 

 tablished by the French in the 17th cen- 

 tury.— Shea, Discov. Miss. Val., 86, 1852. 



Beauport. A village established in 1650 

 in Quebec co., Canada, by fugitive Huron, 

 who removed in the next year to the 

 island of Orleans. — Shea, Cath. Miss., 

 196, 1855. 



Beaver. A former Aleut village on 

 Unalaska, Aleutian ids.; pop. 41 in 1834. 

 Bobrovo.— Sarichef (1792) quoted by Baker, Geog. 

 Diet. Alaska, 1901 (= 'sea otter'). Bobrovskoe, — 

 Veniaminoff, Zapiski, n,202, 1S40. Bobrovskoi. — 

 Elliott, Cond. AfF. Alaska, 225, 1876. tJguiug.— 

 Baker, op. cit. (native name). 



Beaver Island Indians. A Chippewa 

 band formerly residing on the Beaver 

 ids. of Michigan, at the outlet of L. 

 Michigan. — Washington treaty (1836) in 

 U. S. Ind. Treaties, 607, 1873. 



Beaversville. A Delaware settlement 

 in 1856 near the junction of Boggy or. 

 and Canadian r. in Indian Territorv. — 

 Whipple, Pac. R. R. Rep., iir, 18, 1856. 



Beavertown. A village, probably be- 

 longing to the Delawares, situated in 

 1766 on the e. side of the extreme e. 

 head branch of Hocking r., at or near 

 the present Beavertown, in Morgan co., 

 Ohio. Beaver, or King Beaver, was at 

 that time chief of the Unami tribe of 

 Delawares. (j. m. ) 



BeaverTown. — Hutchinsmapin Botiquet, Exped., 

 1766. King Beaver's Town. — Bouquet, ibid., 67. 



Becancour. A village on St Lawrence 

 r., in Quebec province, settled by Ab- 

 naki who removed from ]Maine in 1713 

 when that state was ceded to England 

 by the treaty of lUrecht. In 1736 they 

 were estimated at about 300; in 1858 

 they numbered 172, with French admix- 

 ture, and in 1884 they were reduced to 

 39, but in 1902 numbered 51. They are 

 members of the Roman Catholic church. 



(j. M. ) 

 Bacandee,— King, Jour, to Arctic Ocean, 1,11,1836 

 (incorrectly given as an Iroquois village at Lake 

 of Two Mountains, but distinct from " Kiin^Siltar- 

 kee"). Beauancourt. — Vaudreuil (1710) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., IX, 849, 1S55. Bepancour.— Vau- 

 dreuil (1724) in Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vi, 240, 1859. 

 Becancourians. — Rasles (1724) trans, in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., VIII, 246,1819. Becancourt.— 

 Vaudreuil (1721) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ix, 904, 

 1855. Becquancourt. — La Tour, map, 1784. Bec- 

 quencourt. — Ibid., 1782. Becuncourt. — Clinton 

 (1745) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hi.st.. vi, 281, 18.5,5. 

 Bekancourt.— DeLancey (1754) in Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 216, 1872. Besanpon.— Chau- 

 vignerie (1736) quoted bv Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, in, 553, 1853. 



Bece. An abandoned village of the 

 Koskimo, 6 m. e. of Koprino harbor, in 

 N. Quatsino sd., Vancouver id. 

 Bece. — Dawson in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., 7, 1888. 



Beds. See Furniture. 



Beech Creek. A former Seminole town 

 on Beech cr., Fla., settled by Chiaha In- 

 dians from lower Chattahoochee r., Ga. ; 

 exact location unknown. — Bell in Morse, 

 Rep. to Sec. War, 308, 1822. 



Bejuitnuy ('village of the rainbow'). 

 A former pueblo of the Tigua near the s. 



