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June or July. They establish their tents 

 on the reservation near the excavations, 

 and stay from 1 to 2 weeks, procur- 

 ing the pipestone which they manufac- 

 ture into pipes and trinkets of great 

 variety. 



The Indians sell much of the stone 

 to the whites, who have taken up the 

 manufacture of pipes and various trin- 

 kets, using lathes to aid in the work, 

 and in a letter written by Mr Bennett in 

 1892 it is stated that not 1 percent of 

 the pipes then made and disposed of were 

 of Indian manufacture. White traders 

 began the manufacture of pipes from the 

 pipestone many years ago, and according 

 to Hayden these were used by the fur 

 companies in trade with the Indians of 

 the N. W. At a meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society in 1866 Hay- 

 den stated that in the two years just 

 passed the Northwestern Fur Company 

 had manufactured nearly 2,000 pipes and 

 traded them with the tribes of the upper 

 Missouri. An imi)ortant feature of the 

 quarry site is a group of large granite 

 bowlders, brought from the far N. by 

 glacial ice, about the base of which, en- 

 graved on the glaciated floor of red quartz- 

 ite, were formerly a number of petro- 

 glyphs no doubt representing mytholog- 

 ical beings associated with the locality. 

 These have been taken up and are now in 

 possession of Mr Bennett. Additional 

 interest attaches to the locality on account 

 of an inscription left by the Nicollet ex- 

 ploring party in 1838. The name of Nicol- 

 let and the initials of 5 other persons, in- 

 cluding those of John C. Fremont [C. F. 

 only], are cut in the flinty quartzite rock 

 face near the "leaping rock" at the falls. 

 According to a letter written to Mr Ben- 

 nett by Gen. Fremont several years ago, 

 he at that time named the two small lakes 

 adjoining the quarry, one after his wife, 

 the other after his son. 



The following publications will afford 

 additional details: Barber in Am. Nat., 

 XVII, 1883; Carver, Trav. Through N. 

 Am., 1778; Catlin (1) in Am. Jour. Sci. 

 and Arts, 1st s., xxxviii, 1840, (2) No. Am. 

 Inds., II, 1844; Donaldson in Rep. Nat. 

 Mus. 1885, 1886; Hayden (1) in Am. 

 Jour. Sci. and Arts, 2d s., xliii, 1867, (2) 

 in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, x, 1865-68; 

 Hoffman in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; 

 Holmes in Proc. A. A. A. S., xli, 1892; 

 Nicollet in Sen. Doc. 237, 26th Cong., 

 2d sess., 1841; Norris, Calumet of the Co- 

 teau, 1883; Rau in Rep. Smithson. Inst. 

 1872, 1873; White in Am. Nat., ii, 1868; 

 AVinchell in Geol. Surv. Minn., i, 1884. 

 (w. H. H. ) 



Catoking. A village, probably belong- 

 ing to the Chowanoc, situated about 

 Gatesville, Gates ('o., N. C, in 1585.— 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. 



Catouinayos. An unidentified village or 

 tribe mentioned to Joutel in 1687 (Mar- 

 gry, Dec, iii, 409, 1878), while he was 

 staying with the Kadohadacho on Red r. 

 of Louisiana, by the chief of that tribe as 

 being among his enemies. 



Catrdo. Mentioned in 1598 as a pueblo 

 of the Jemez (q.v. ) Not identified with 

 the present native name of any of the 

 ruined pueblos in the vicinity of Jemez. 

 Caatri.— Onate (1598) in Doc. Ined.,"'xvi, 102, 1871. 

 Catroo.— Ibid., 114. 



Catskill. A division of the Munsee 

 formerly living on Catskill cr., w. of the 

 Hudson, in Greene co., N. Y. They 

 were one of the Esopus tribes, and were 

 known to the French as Mahingans (or 

 Loups) of Taracton, but this name may 

 have included other bands in that region. 

 The name Catskill is Dutch, and was first 

 applied to the stream as descriptive of the 

 totem of the band, which was really the 

 wolf. 



Catkils.— Salisbury (1678) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.. 

 XIII, 524, 1881. Catskil.— Document of 1659(?), 

 ibid., 119. Catskills.— Smith (1660), ibid., 161. 

 Cattskill.— Cregier (1663), ibid., 325. Katskil.— 

 Lease of 1650, ibid., 26. Katskill.— Schuyler (1691), 

 ibid.. Ill, 801, 1863. Taracton.— Frontenac (1674), 

 ibid., IX, 117, 1855. Taractou.— Ibid., 793. Tarak- 

 tons.-Bruyas (1678), ibid., xill, 523, 1881. Tar- 

 raktons.— Brockholst (1678), ibid., 527. 



Cattachiptico. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy on Pamunkey r., in King 

 AVilliam co., Va., in 1608.— Smith (1629), 

 Va., I, map, repr. 1819. 



Cattahecassa. See Catahecassa. 



Cattaraugus ( G(V -dd-ga>'s^-geo>^' , ' where 

 oozed mud roils.' — Hewitt). A Seneca 

 settlement on a branch of Cattaraugus cr. , 

 Cattaraugus co., N. Y. In 1903 there 

 were 1,272 Seneca and 182 Cayuga and 

 Onondaga on the reserve, which contains 

 21,680 acres, 14,800 of which are under 

 cultivation. 



Cataraugos. — Genesee treaty (1797) in Hall, N. W. 

 States, 74, 1849. Cattaragus.— Procter (1791) in 

 Am. St. Pap., IV, 155, 1S32. Cattaraugus. — Buffalo 

 Creek treaty (1802) m Hall.N. W. States, 76, 1849. 

 Catteranga. — Keane in Stanford, Compend., 535, 

 1878. Ga'-da-gans'-geo"'.— Hewitt, inf'n, 1886 

 (Seneca form). Gada'gesgao. ^Morgan, League 

 Iroq., 466, 1851. Ka-'ta-ra'-krap.— Hewitt, inf'n, 

 1886 (Tuscarora form). 



Caucus. This word, defined by Bart- 

 lett (Diet, of Americanisms, 106, 1877) as 

 ' ' a private meeting of the leading politi- 

 cians of a party, to agree upon the plans 

 to be pursued in an approaching elec- 

 tion," and by Norton (Polit. American- 

 isms, 28, 1890) as "a meeting of partisans, 

 congressional or otherwise, to decide upon 

 the action to be taken by the party," has 

 now a legal signification. In Massachu- 

 setts it is defined as "any public meeting 

 of the voters of a ward of a city, or of a 

 town, or of a representative district, held 

 for the nomination of a candidate for elec- 

 tion, forthe election of a political commit- 

 tee, or of delegates to a political conven- 

 tion." The origin of the word is not clear. 

 Trumbull (Trans. Am. Philol. Assoc, 



