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BEKU BELLABELLA 



[b. a. e. 



limit of tlieir lial)itat, on the Kio Grande, 

 at the present Los Lunas, N. Mex. 



Be-jui Tu-uy. — BandflitT in Aroh. Inst. Papers, 

 HI, 130, 1890. Be-jui) Tu-aij.— Bandolier in Jour. 

 Am. Eth. and Areh., Ill, 61, 1S92. Be-Jui Tu-ay.— 

 Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 21S, 1892. 

 Be-juy Tu-ay, — Bandelier in Jonr. Am. Eth. and 

 Arch., op. eit. San Clemente. ^Bandelier in Arch. 

 Inst. Papers, iv, 219, 1X92. Village of the Rain- 

 bow. — Bandelier in Jour. Am. Eth. and Areh.. 

 op. cit. 



Beku (Be^-ku) . Given by Powers ( Cont. 

 N. A. P^thnol., Ill, 393, 1877) as the name of 

 a tribe related to the Paiute, l)ut identified 

 by Kroeber (inf'n, 1903) as a form of 

 Bekiu, tlie Yokiits name of a loeahty on 

 Poso cr., Cal., within tlie territory of the 

 Paleuyami Yolints. 



Beldom. A Missisauga village in On- 

 tario in 1855. — Jones, Ojebway Inds., 

 229, 1861. 



Belen. A village on the w. bank of the 

 Rio Grande in Valencia eo., N. 3Iex., 

 and the seat of the Spanish mission of 

 Nuestra Senora, with 107 inhabitants in 

 1805 and 133 in 1809. Like Abif|uin and 

 Tome it was apparently established as a 

 refuge for Genizaros, or redeemed captive 

 Indians, of whom a few were at Belen in 

 1766. It is now a "Mexican" settlement. 

 The ruins of the old Spanish church may 

 still be traced, (f. w. h. ) 

 Belem.— Alencaster (1805) quoted by Prince, X. 

 Mex., 231, 18S3. Belen.— Moise in Kan. Cy. Rev., 

 481, Dec. 1881. Neustra Senora de Belem,— Alen- 

 caster (180.T) quoted In' Meline, Two Thousand 

 Miles, 212, isf>7 (misprint). N. S. de Belem.— Ban- 

 croft, Nat. Puices, I, 599, 1SS2 (after Meline). N. 

 S. de Belen.— Alencaster (IH)")) (juoted by Prince, 

 N. Mex., 37, 1883. Nuestra Seiiora de la Belen. — 

 Ward in Ind. Aff. Rep. for 1867, 213, 1868. Belue,— 

 Ibid., 210 (misprint). 



Belen. A settlement of the Yaqui, in- 

 cluding some members of the Seri and 

 Guayma tribes, on the x. bank of Yacjui 

 r., about 20 m. above its mouth, in s. 

 Sonora, Mexico. It was the seat of an 

 important mission founded about 1678, 

 and in 1849 its population was estimated 

 at 3,000. 



Belem.— Velasco in Bol. Soc. Mex. Geog:. Estad., 

 VIII, 226, 1860. Belen.— Velasco, Noticias de 8o- 

 nora, 84, 1850. Nuestra Seiiora de Belem.— Orozco 

 V Berra, Geog., 355, 1864. Nuestra Senora de 

 Belen.— Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., 

 in, 379, 1857. 



Belkofski (Russian: Bielkorslvie, 'squir- 

 rel village' ). An Aleut village near the 

 end of Alaska pen. ; pop. 102 in 1833, 268 

 in 1880, 185 in 1890, 147 in 1900. 

 Bailkovskoe. — Yeniaminof, Zapiski, li, 203, 1840. 

 Belkovsky. — Sclnvatka, Mil. Kecon. Alaska, 116, 

 1S.S5. Bellkovskoi,— Elliott, Cond. Atf., Alaska, 

 225. I,s75. Bjelkowskoje. — Holmberg, Ethnol. 

 •Skizz., map, 142, 1855. 



Bellabella ( an Indian corruption of Mil- 

 hank taken back into English) . The pop- 

 ular name of an important Kwakiutl 

 tribe living on Milbank sd., Brit. Col. 

 Their septs or sul)tribes are Kokaitk, 

 Oetlitk, and Oealitk. The following clans 

 are given: Wikoktenok (Eagle), Koete- 

 nok (Raven), Halhaiktenok (Killer- 

 whale). Pop. 330 in 1901. 



The language spoken by thiss tril:)e and 

 shared also by Ihe Kitamat, Kitlope, 

 China Hat, and Wikeno Indians is a pe- 

 culiar dialect of Kwakiutl, called Heil- 

 tsuk from the native name of the Bella- 



BELLABELLA MAN. (am. MuS 



HIST. ) 



bella. These tribes resemble each other 

 furthermore in having a system of clans 

 with descent through the mother — de- 

 rived i>roba1)ly frf)m their northern neigh- 



BELLABELLA WOMAN. (am. Mus. Nat Hist. ) 



bors — while the Bellacoola and Kwakiutl 

 to the s. have paternal descent. An- 

 ciently the Bellabella were very warlike, 

 a character largely attributa1>le to the 

 fact that thev were flanked on one side 



