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BUBEAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS BUSK 



[b. a. e. 



Eduard Seler, E. FOrstemann, Paul Schellhas, 

 Carl Sapper, and E. P. Dieseldorff, translated 

 from the German nnderthe supervision of Charles 

 P. Bowditch. 



(29) Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect, 

 by J. R. Swanton. 



" (30) Handbook of the Indians north of Mexico, 

 Parts land ii. 



Introductions. — Four volumes, 4°. 



(1) Introduction to the study of Indian lan- 

 guages, by J. W. Powell, 1877. 



(2) Introduction to the study of Indian lan- 

 guages, 2d edition, by J. W. Powell, 1880. 



(3) Introduction to the study of sign language 

 among the North American Indians, bv Garriok 

 Mallery, 1880. 



(4) Introduction to the study of mortuary cus- 

 toms among the North American Indians, bv 

 H. C. Yarrow, 1880. 



Miscellaneous Publications: 



(1) A collection of gestnre-.signs and signals 

 of the North American Indians, bv Garrick Mal- 

 lery, 1880. 



(2) Proof-.sheets of a bibliography of the lan- 

 guages of the North American Indians, bv J. C. 

 Pilling, 1885. 



(3) Linguistic families of the Indian tribes 

 north of Mexico [by James Mooney, 1885] . 



(4) Map of linguistic stocks of American In- 

 dians north of Mexico, by .J. \V. Powell, 1891. 



(5) Tribes of North America, with synonomy: 

 Skittagetan familv [bv Henry W. Henshaw, 

 1890] . 



(6) Dictionary of American Indians north of 

 Mexico [advance pages] , 1903. 



• (w. H. H. ) 



Bureau of Indian Affairs. — See Office of 

 Indian ^Iffiiir-i. 



Burges' Town. A Seminole town, the 

 exact location of which is unknown, but 

 it was probably on or near Flint or St 

 Marys r., s. w. Ga. — Connell (1793) in 

 Am." State Papers, Ind. Aff., i, 384, 1832. 



Burial. See Mortuary customs, Urn 

 burial. 



Burnt Woods Chippewa. A former Chip- 

 pewa liand on Bois Brule r., near the w. 

 end of L. Superior, x. Wis. 



Chippeways of the Burnt Woods. — Schoolcraft. 

 Travels, 321, 1821. 



Burrard Inlet No. 3 Reserve. The name 

 given by the Canadian Department of 

 Indian Affairs to one of 6 divisions of 

 the Squawmisii, q. v.; pop. 30 in 1902. 



Burrard Saw Mills Indians. The local 

 name for a Iwdy of Squawmish of Eraser 

 River agency, Brit. Col. ; noted only in 

 1884, when their number was given as 

 232.— Can. Ind. Aff., 187, 1884. 



Busac. A former rancheria, probably 

 of the Sobaipuri, visited by Kino about 

 1697; situated, apparently, on Arivaipa 

 cr., a tributary of the San Pedro, e. of 

 old Camp Grant, s. Ariz., although Bernal 

 (Bancroft, Ariz, and X. Mex., 356, 1889) 

 states that the settlement was on a creek 

 flowing E. 



Busanic. A Pima settlement s. w. of 

 Guevavi, near the Arizona-Sonora bound- 

 ary, in lat. 31° 10^ long. 111° 10^ visited 

 by Kino in 1694 and by Kino and INIange 

 in 1699. It was made a visita of Guevavi 

 mission at an early date ; pop. 253 in 1 730, 

 41 in 1764. See Kino (1694) in Doc. 

 Hist. Mex., 4th s., i, 252, 1856; Eudo 

 Ensayo (1763), 150, 1863; Mange quoted 



by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Max., 358, 



1889. 



Bisanig.— Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 524, 1884. 

 Busani.— Villa-Sefior.Theatro Am., pt. 2, 408, 1748. 

 Busanic. — Kino, op. cit. Busnio. — Venegas, Hist. 

 Cal., I, may). 1759. Busona. — Box, Adventures, 

 270, 18139. Bussani. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 347. 

 18(54. Ginco Seiiores Busanic. — Sonora materiales 

 (1730) quoted bv Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 514, 

 1884. Ruzany.— Land Office map, U. S., 1881. S. 

 Ambrosio Busanic. — Kino (1699) quoted bv Ban- 

 croft, No. Mex. States, 1,270, 1884. San Ambrosio 

 de Busanio.— Venegas, Hist. Cal., l, 300, 1759. 

 Susanna. — Kino, map (1702) in Stocklein, Neue 

 WeltBott, 74, 1726 (misprint). 



Bushamul. A Nishinam village for- 

 inerlv existing in the valley of Bear r., 

 Cal. ■ 



Bashonees. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 8, 1860. 

 Booshamool. — Powers in Overland Mo., xii, 22, 

 1874. Bu'-sha-mul. —Powers in Cont. N. A. Eth- 

 nol.. Ill, 31t), 1877. Bushones. — Bancroft, Nat. 

 Races, I. 45U, 1S74. Bushumnes.— Hale, Ethnog. 

 and Philol., (iol, 1846. 



Bushy Head. See Unaduti. 



Businausee ('echo maker,' from hnswa- 

 wag, 'echo,' referring to the achicliak, 

 crane) . A phratry of the Chippewa. 

 Bus-in-as-see. — Warren in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 V, 46, 18S5. Bus-in-aus-e. — Ibid., 44. Bus-in-aus-e- 

 wug.— Ibid., 88 (plural). 



Busk (Creek: puskita, 'a fast'). A fes- 

 tival of the Creeks, by some early writers 

 termed the green-corn dance. According 

 to Gatschet (Creek Migr. Leg., i, 177, 

 1884) the solemn annual festival held by 

 the Creek people of ancient and modern 

 days. As this authority points out, the 

 celebration of the puskita was an occasion 

 of amnesty, forgiveness, and absolution 

 of crime, injury, and hatred, a season of 

 change of mind, symbolized in various 

 ways. 



The day of beginning of the celebra- 

 tion of the puskita, which took place 

 chiefly in the "town square," was de- 

 termined by the miko, or chief, and his 

 council; and the ceremony itself, which 

 had local variations, lasted for 4 days in 

 the towns of less note and for 8 days in 

 the more important. Hawkins (Sketch, 

 75, 1848) has left a description of the 

 busk, or " boos-ke-tau," as it was carried 

 out in the white or peace town of Kasihta 

 in 1798-99. The chief points are as 

 follows: 



First day: The yard of the sijuare is 

 cleaned in the morning and sprinkled 

 with white sand, while the black drink 

 is being prepared. The fire maker, spe- 

 cially appointed, kindles new fire by 

 friction, the 4 logs for the fire being ar- 

 ranged crosswise with reference to the 

 cardinal points. The women of the Tur- 

 key clan dance the turkey dance, while 

 the very strong emetic called passa is 

 being brewed; tliis is drunk from about 

 noon to the middle of the afternoon. 

 Then comes the tadpole dance, performed 

 by 4 men and 4 women known as "tad- 

 ]>oles." From evening until dawn the 

 dance of the hiniha is performed by the 



