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COASSITT COCHIMI 



[b. a. e. 



tween the Colorado and the Brazos, op- 

 posite the island of La Culebra. The 

 mounds and graves found on the coast of 

 Texas probably belonged to the Coaque 

 and kindred tribes, which are now ex- 

 tinct, (a. c. F. ) 

 Biscatronges. — Bareia quoted by Gatschet, Ka- 

 rankawa Inds., 34, 1891 ( = ' weepers'). Biska- 

 tronge. — Bareia, Ensayo, 263, 1723. Cadoques.^ 

 Davis, Span.Conq. N. Mex.,S2, 1869. Cahoques. — 

 Cabeca de Vaca (l.'>29). Smith transl., 137, 1871. 

 Caoques. — Ibid., 139. Capoques. — Ibid., 82. Ca- 

 yoques. — Davis, op. eit. Coaquis.— Bareia, Ensayo, 

 2.59,1723. Cocos.— Rivera, Dlario, leg. 2602, 1736. 

 Cokes. — Bollaert in Jour. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., ll, 

 276, 1863. Planidores.— Bareia, Ensayo, 264, 1723. 

 Pleureurs. — Martin, Hist. La., I, 116. ftuoaquis. — 

 Douay (1687) quoted by Shea, Discov. Miss. Val., 

 207, 18,52. Weepers. — Gatschet, Karankawa Inds., 

 34, 1891. 



Coassitt ( 'at the pines.' — Hewitt). An 

 Indian rendezvous during King Philip's 

 war of 1675; situated about 56 m. above 

 Hadlej', Mass. ( Appleton, 1675, in Barber, 

 Mass. Hist. Coll., 294, 1839). Possibly 

 Coosuc (q. V. ). 



Coat. A rancheria, probably of the 

 Maricopa, visited by Kino and Mange in 

 1699. — ^Mange quoted by Bancroft, Ariz, 

 and N. Mex., 358, 1889. 



Coatraw. A former Choctaw town 

 which probably stood about 4 m. w. of 

 Newton, Newton co.. Miss., where are 

 several broad low mounds. The name is 

 evidently greatly corrupted and can not 

 be interpreted. See Romans, Florida, 

 map, 1775; Brown in Miss. Hist. Soc. 

 Publ., VI, 444, 1902. 



Coatuit. A village of Praying Indians, 

 probably belonging to the Nauset, near 

 Osterville, Barnstableco. , Mass. , in 1674. — 

 Bourne (1674) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 Ists., I, 197, 1806. 



Coaxet. A village of Praying Indians 

 formerly near Little Compton, Newport 

 CO., R. I., subject to the Wami^anoag. 

 As late as 1685 it contained about 100 

 adults. Acoakset r. preserves the name. 

 Coaksett.— Records (1664?) quoted by Drake, Bk. 

 Inds., bk. 3, 10, 1848. Coaxet.— Drake, ibid., 14. 

 Cokesit. — Rawson and Danfortli (1698) in l\Iass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., Ists., X, 130, 1809. Cooxet.— Hinck- 

 ley (1685), ibid., 4th s.,v, 133, 1861. Cooxitt.— Ibid. 

 Coquitt.— Cotton (1674), ibid., 1st s., I, 200, 1806. 

 Coxit, — Ibid. 



Coayos. An unidentified tribe that 

 lived near the Cutalchiches, Malicones, 

 and Susolas, of whom Cabeza de Vaca 

 (Smith tran.s., 72, 1851 ) heard during his 

 stay with the Avavares in Texasin 1527-34. 



Cobardes. Given by Dominguez and 

 Escalante (Doc. Hist. Mex., 2d s., i, 537, 

 1854) as one of 5 divisions of the Ute in 

 1776, and subdivided into the Huascari, 

 Parusi, Yubuincariri, Ytimpabichi, and 

 Pagampache. Some of these appear to 

 be Ute and some Paiute. 



Cobora. An Opata village, now in ruins, 

 near Guachinera, e. Sonora, Mexico. — 

 Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 517, 

 1892. 



Coca. A former Papago village in s. 

 Arizona. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, June 

 19, 1863. 



Cocash. A name of the red-stalk or 

 purple-stem aster [Aster puniceufi), known 

 also as swan-weed, early purple aster, 

 etc. ; from one of the eastern dialects of 

 the Algonquian language, signifying 'it is 

 rough to the touch,' in reference to the 

 stem of the plant. (a. f. c. ) 



Cochali. Given by Coxe in 1741 as the 

 name of one of 4 small islands in Tennes- 

 see r , 40 leagues above the Chickasaw, 

 each occupied by a "nation" of the same 

 name. The others were Kakick, Taho- 

 gale, and Tali (Little Talasse). The lo- 

 cation was in n. Alabama, and the names 

 may perhaps be Creek. They do not 

 seem to be Cherokee, although Cochali 

 may possibly be kdtmW, implying 'some- 

 thing in a sheath.' (.i. m. ) 

 Cochali. — Co.xe, Carolana, 14, 1741 (after Sauvole, 

 1701). Cochaly.— Ibid., map. 



Cochimi ( ko-dd-mV). A term originally 

 used to designate a Yuman dialect sup- 

 posed to have been spoken from about lat. 

 26° to the N. limit of Lower California. It 

 is doubtful, however, if any single dialect 

 was spoken over such an extended area. 

 It is here employed as a collective or di- 

 visional name embracing many former 

 tribes of the Californian peninsula from 

 lat. 31° southward to about lat. 26°, in- 

 cluding the settlements around Loreto. 

 The tribes of this division were the most 

 populous in the peninsula, though it 

 would be difficult now to define their 

 limits to the n. and s. in a strictly ethno- 

 logic or linguistic sense. According to 

 Hervas (Idea dell' Universo, xxi, 79-80, 

 1787) there existed in 1767 the following 

 missions at which Cochimi dialects were 

 spoken: San Xavier de Biaundo (pop. 

 485); San Jose Comondu (pop. 360); 

 Santa Borja (1,500 neophytes); Santa 

 Maria Magdalena (300 neophytes and 

 30 catechumens); La Purisima Concep- 

 cion (130 neophytes); Santa Rosalia de 

 Mulege or Muleje (pop. 300); Santa 

 Guadalupe (530 neophytes) ; San Ignacio 

 (pop. 750), and Santa Gertrudis (pop. 

 1,000). A few of the.se Indians are said 

 to survive. Duflot de Mofras (Expl., 

 I, 227, 1844) states that in his time 

 (about 1842) the Cora, Edu, Pericu, and 

 Cochimi were no longer distinct from 

 one another, but Buschmann regards this 

 as doubtful. 



The following are classed as Cochimi 

 tribes or rancherias: Adac, Afegua, Ag- 

 gavacaamanc, Amalgua, Amaniini, Am- 

 etzilhacaamanc, Anchu, Avolabac, Ca- 

 amancijup, Caddehi,Cadecuijtnipa, Cade- 

 gomo, Ca<leudel)et, Cahelca, Cahelejyu, 

 Cahelembil, Cahelmet, Camancnaccooya, 

 Camanocacaamano, Cunitcacahel, Egui- 



