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CANOPUS CAPE FEAK INDIANS 



[b. a. e. 



when the dispute was settled through the 

 efforts of WiUiams. H e never fully trusted 

 the English, nor they him. Durfee, in his 

 poem "What cheer?" calls Canonicus 

 "cautious, wise, and old," and Roger 

 Williams styles him a "prudent and 

 peaceable prince." He is highly praised 

 in John Lathrop's poem "The Speech of 

 Canonicus," published at Boston in 1802. 

 His name, which is spelled in a variety 

 of ways, appears to have been changed, 

 perhaps by contagion with the Latin 

 canonicvs, from Qunnoune (Drake, Inds. 

 of N. Am., 118, 1880). He is not to be 

 confused with Canonchet, a later Narra- 

 ganset sachem. (a. f. c.) 



Canopus. The principal village of the 

 Nochpeem, taking its name from their 

 chief. It was situated in Canopus Hol- 

 low, Putnam co., N. Y. — Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 80, 1872. 



Cant. A former rancheria, jirobably of 

 the Maricopa, not far below the mouth of 

 Salt r., s. Ariz.; visited and so named 

 by Kino and Mange in 1699. 

 San Hateo Cant, — Mange quoted by Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. Mex., 357, 1889. S. Mateo Caut.— 

 Mange quoted by Bancroft, No. Mex. States, I, 268, 

 1884 (misprint). 



Cantaunkack, A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, on York r. , Gloucester 

 CO., Va. (Smith (1629), Va., i, map, 

 repr. 1819) . It apparently belonged to 

 the Werowacomaco, although Strachey 

 uses the name as that of a tribe having 

 more than 100 warriors about the same 

 time. (j. M. ) 



Cantaunkank.— strachey {ca. 1612) , Va., map, 1849. 



Canteens. See Putter)/, lieceptacles. 



Cantensapue'. A pueblo of the province 

 of Atripuv, in the region of the lower Rio 

 Grande, N. Mex., in 1598.— Onate (1598) 

 in Doc. Ined., xvi, 115, 1871. 



Cantico . This word, spelled also cantica, 

 canticoy, kantico, kanticoy, kintacoy, 

 kinteeaw, kintecoy, kintekaye, kinticka, 

 was in great use among the Dutch and 

 English colonists in the region between 

 New York and Virginia from the latter 

 part of the 17th to the 19th century, nor 

 is it yet entirely extinct in American 

 English. In the literature of the 18th 

 century it appears frequently, with the 

 following meanings: (1) Dance, or dancing 

 party. (2) Social gathering of a lively 

 sort. (3) Jollification. The last signifi- 

 cation still survives, in literature at least. 

 In 1644 kintekm/e was said to be a 'death 

 dance,' but van der Donck (1653) wrote 

 of the kintecmv as 'singing and danc- 

 ing' of the young. Later on kintekat/ 

 and kiniicoy meant a noisy and demon- 

 strative dance, with shouting and uproar. 

 Dankers in 1679 defined kintekay as 

 'conjuring the devil,' and Denton (1670) 

 called the canticoy 'a dancing match, a 

 festival time.' Rev. Andrew Hesselius 

 (Nelson, Inds. of N. J., 79, 1894), who 



witnessed the first-fruits sacrifice of the 

 New Jersey Indians, said: "This and 

 other sacrifices of the Americans they 

 call, from a native word of their own, 

 kinticka, i. e., a festive gathering or a 

 wedding." A word of the Delaware dia- 

 lect of Algonquian is the source of cantico 

 and its variants, namely, gintkaan, signi- 

 fying 'to dance,' cognate with the Vir- 

 ginian kantikanti, 'to dance and sing.' 

 The phrase 'to cut a cantico' was for- 

 merly in use. A n absurd etymology from 

 the Latin caniicare, 'to sing,' was once 

 proposed. According to Boas, New Eng- 

 land whalers who visit Hudson bay use 

 the term antico, or anticoot, to designate 

 the performance of the angekut of the 

 Eskimo, this form of the word probably 

 being influenced by the Eskimo name. 



(a. f. c. ) 



Canuga ( kcinu'ga, ' scratcher, ' a sort of 

 bone-toothed comb with which ball-play- 

 ers are ceremonially scratched). The 

 name of two former Cherokee towns, 

 one, a Lower Cherokee settlement, ap- 

 parently on the waters of Keowee r. , S. C. , 

 destroyed in 1761; the other a traditional 

 settlement on Pigeon r., probably near 

 the present Waynesville, Haywood co., 

 N. C— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 479, 524, 1900. 



Canyon Butte. The local name for a 

 group of interesting prehistoric pueblo 

 ruins near the n. escarpment of the chief 

 basin of the Petrified forest, at the source 

 of a wash that enters Little Colorado r. 

 from the n. e. at Woodruff, near the 

 Apache-Navajo co. boundary, Arizona. 

 The remains seem to indicate Zuni 

 origin. — Hough in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1901, 

 309; 1903. 



Capahnakes. Possibly a misprint in- 

 tended for the inhabitants of Capawac, or 

 Marthas Vineyard, off the s. coast of 

 Massachusetts. The form occurs in Bou- 

 dinot, Star in the West, 129, 1816. 



Capahowasic. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, about Cappahosic, 

 Gloucester co., Va. 



Capahowasick.— Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 

 1819. Capahowosick. — Simons, ibid., 163. Capa- 

 howsick,— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 10, 1848. 



Capasi. A former village on the n. 

 frontier of Florida and probably belong- 

 ing to the Apalachee, visited by De Soto 

 in 1539.— Garcilasso de laVega^ Fla., 74, 

 1723. 



Cape Breton. One of the seven districts 

 of the country of the Micmac, on Cape 

 Breton id., n. of Nova Scotia. The chief 

 of this district was the head chief of the 

 tribe (Rand, First Micmac Reading Book, 

 1875). The name occurs in a list of 1760 

 as the location of a Micmac village or 

 band. (-i. m.) 



Cape Fear Indians. A small tribe, pos- 

 sibly Siouan, formerly living near the 

 mouth of Cape Fear r. , N. C. The proper 



