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Cocoigui. A former Maricopa rancheria 

 on the Rio Gila. s. Ariz., visited by Father 

 Sedelmair in 1744. — Bancroft, Ariz, and 

 N. Mex., 366, 1889. 



Cocomorachic. A Tarahumare settle- 

 ment on the headwatersof the Rio Ya(iui, 

 lat. 28° 40^ long. 107° 40^ Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. — Orozco v Berra, Geog. , 323, 

 1864. 



Coconoon. A Yokuts tribe of Califor- 

 nia, said bv Johnston in 1851 (School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, iv, 413, 1854) to "live 

 on the Merced r., with other bands, under 

 their chief Nuella. There are the rem- 

 nants of 3 distinct bands residing together, 

 each originally speaking a different lan- 

 guage. The aged of the people have 

 difficulty in understanding each other." 

 The vocabulary given by Johnston is 

 Yokuts. Merced r. is, however, otherwise 

 known to have been inhabited only by 

 Moquelumnan tribes. The Coconoon are 

 also mentioned by Royce (18th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 780) , together with 5 other tribes from 

 Tuolumne and jNIerced rs. (all of which 

 were undoubtedly IMoquelumnan), as 

 ceding all their lands, by treaty of Mar. 

 19, 1851, excepting a tract between the 

 Tuolumne and the iNIerced. If these state- 

 ments about the Coconoon are correct, 

 they constituted a small detached division 

 of the Mariposan family situated among 

 Moquelumnan groups midway between 

 the main b<idy of the stock to the s. and 

 the Cholovone to the n. w. 



Co-co-noon. — Johnston (18.51) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 61. 

 32d Cong., 1st sess., 23, 1852. 



Cocopa {kf/-ko-pa). A division of the 

 Yuman family which in 1604—05 lived in 9 

 rancherias on the Rio Colorado, 5 leagues 

 above its mouth. At a later period they 

 alsoextended in to the mountains of Lower 

 California, hence were confined almost ex- 

 clusively to Mexico. According to Heint- 

 zelman, in 1856, the tribe was formerly 

 strong in numbers and could muster 300 

 warriors; theirtotal numberwas estimated 

 by Fray Francisco Garces in 1775-76 at 

 3,000, but there are now only 800 in x. 

 Lower California, in the valley of the Rio 

 Colorado. The Cocopa were reputed to l)e 

 less hostile than the Yuma or the INIohave, 

 who frequently raided their villages; 

 nevertheless they were sufficiently war- 

 like to retaliate when necessary. Garces 

 said of them in 1776 that they had always 

 been enemies of the Papago, Jalliquamai 

 (Quigyuma), and Cajuenche, but friendly 

 toward the Cuneil. Although spoken of 

 as being physically inferior to the cog- 

 nate tribes, the males are fully up to 

 and in some cases rather above normal 

 stature, and are well projaortioned, while 

 the females appear also to be of at least 

 ordinarv size and are also well developed. 

 Heintzelman (H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th 

 Cong. 3d sess. ,43, 1857 ) says" they so much 



resemble the Cuchan (Yuma) in arms, 

 dress, manners, and customs it is difficult 

 to distinguish one from another." They 

 depended for subsistence chiefly on corn, 

 melons, pumpkins, and beans, which they 

 cultivated, adding native grass seeds, 

 roots, mesquite beans, etc. The Cocopa 

 houses of recent time range in character 

 from the brush ar))or for summer use to 



COCOPA MAN. (mcGEe) 



the wattled hut, plastered outside and in- 

 side with mud, for winter occupancy. 

 Polygamy was formerly practised to some 

 extent. They universally cremate their 

 dead. The Cuculato are mentioned as a 

 Cocopa division and I^lagas as the name 

 applied by the Spaniards to a former 

 group of Cocopa rancherias. ( f. w. h. ) 

 Cacopas. — Ind. Aff. Rep., 390, 18t)3. Cacupas. — 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 9t;, 1S53. Cocapa. — 



