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COIRACOTTAGA COLLECTING 



[b. a. e. 



Caracontauon. — Coxe, Carolana, 17, 1741. Caraco- 

 tanon. — Ibid., map. Coiracoentanon. — La Salle 

 (ca. 16.S0) in Margry, Dec, li,2Ul, 1.S77. Koeracoe- 

 netanon. — Ibid., 42. Koracocnitonon. — Hennepin, 

 New Discov., 310, l(i9s. Korakoenitanon, — La Salle, 

 op. cit., 96. Kouivakouintanouas. — Gravier (oa. 

 1700) in Tailhan, I'errot, 221, 18ti4. _ 



Coiracoitaga. A tribe mentioned by La 

 Salle (Margry, Dec, ii, 149, 1877) in con- 

 nection with the Mahican, Manhattan, 

 Minnisink, and others in 1681. 



Cojate. A Papago village of 103 fami- 

 lies in 1865, in s. w. Pinal co., Ariz., near 

 the present town of the same name. 



Coajata.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 135, 1865. Cobota.— 

 Browne, Apache Country, 291, 1869 (misprint from 

 Poston). Cojate. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 

 19, 1863. Coj Ota.— Poston in Ind. AfiF. Rep., 385, 

 1863. Del Cojate.— Bailey, ibid., 208, 18.58. 



Cojoya. An nnidentitied people, de- 

 scribed by Fray Geronimo de Zarate-Sal- 

 meron, about 1629 (Land of Sunshine, 

 183, Feb., 1900), as living in a fertile and 

 well- watered country "80 leagues before 

 reaching New Mexico from the w. side, 

 separated by 2 days of travel from the 

 Rio del Norte [Rio Grande] and the 

 King's highway." They raised cotton, 

 corn, and other vegetables, and wove 

 very fine, thin mantas. Their neighbors 

 to the E. were the Gorretas (Mansos), 

 and on the s. were their enemies, the 

 Conchas, or Conchos, who lived about 

 the junction of the Rio Conchas and the 

 Rio Grande, in Chihuahua, Mexico. Za- 

 rate-Salmeron adds that the Cojoya had 

 hitherto been believed to be the Guagua- 

 tu(q. V. ). As here given their habitat 

 coincides somewhat with that of the Jum- 

 ano (q. v.), as given by Espejo in 1582. 



Cojuat. A former Diegueno rancheria 

 near San Diego, s. Cal.— Ortega quoted 

 by Bancroft, Hist. Cal., i, 254, 1884. 



Cokah ( 'eyes open' ). A Cree band of 

 100 skin lodges on Lac Qu'apelle, Assini- 

 boia, Canada, in 1856; named from their 

 chief. — Havden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. 

 Val., 237, 1862. 



Colbert, William. A Chickasaw chief. 

 During the Revolutionary war he aided 

 the Americans, and in the army of Gen. 

 Arthur St Clair led the Chickasaw allies 

 against the hostile tribes and was known 

 as the great war-chief of his nation. In 

 the war of 1812 he served 9 months in 

 the regular infantry, then returned to 

 lead his warriors against the hostile 

 Creeks, whom he pursued from Pensa- 

 cola almost to Apalachicola, killing many 

 and bringing back 85 prisoners to Mont- 

 gomery, Ala. He was styled a general 

 when he visited Washington at the head 

 of a Chickasaw delegation in 1816. In 

 the treaties ceding Chickasaw lands to 

 the United States the name of Gen. Col- 

 bert appears, except in the ones to which 

 was signed the name Piomingo, which 

 also was l)orne by a captain of the Chicka- 

 saw in the St Clair expedition, and was 

 the pseudonym under which John Rob- 



ertson, "a headman and warrior of the 

 Muscogulgee nation," wrote The Savage 

 (Phila., 1810). 



Colcene, One of the 3 bands into which 

 the T wana of x. w. Washington are divided. 



Colcene.— Eells in Smith.son. Rep. 1887, 606, 1889- 

 (namegiven liytlu' whites). Colcins. — Ibid. Col- 

 seed. — Ibid. Kolsids. — Ibid, (own name). Kol- 

 sins. — Ibid. Kwulseet. — Gibbs in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., I, 178, 1877. Q,uilcene.— Eells, op. cit. 

 (name given by the whites). 



Colchopa. A body of Salish of Wil- 

 liams Lake agency, Brit. Col. ; pop. 40 in 

 1889, the last time the name appears. — 

 Can. Ind. Aff. for 1889, 271. 



Cold Country. About 1756 some Indian 

 allies of the French "of the tribe called 

 the Cold Country," and armed with 

 bows, attacked the English near Ft Ed- 

 ward, N. Y. They were recent allies of 

 the French and sucked the blood of the 

 slain. Mentioned by Niles (about 1761) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., v, 436, 

 1861. Probably some remote tribe toward 

 Hudson bay. 



Colete. One of the two principal vil- 

 lages of the Koasati on lower Trinity r., 

 Tex. — BoUaert in Jour. Ethnol. Soc. 

 Lond., II, 282, 1850. 



Coligoa. A village visited by ihe De 

 Soto expedition in 1542 and described as 

 in a very fertile country, in which the 

 troops made salt, "toward the moun- 

 tains," and by a river at the foot of a 

 hill ; possibly in w. Arkansas or on the 

 border of the Ozark mts. 

 Coligoa.— Gentl. of Elva.s in Hakluvt Soc. Pub!., 

 IX, 105, 1851. Coligua.—Biedma( 1.544) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., ii, 106, 18.50. Colima.— Gareila.ssode 

 la Vega, La Florida, 188, 1723. Province de Sel,— 

 Shipp, De Soto and Florida, 420,1881. Provincia 

 de la Sal. — Garcila.sso de la Vega, op. cit., 189. 



Colina ('small hill'). A wild tribe of 

 New Mexico in the 18th century ( Villa- 

 Senor, Theatro Am., ii, 412, 1748); not 

 identified, but probably an Apache band. 



Collecting. Trained observers, whose 

 task is to bring together material and 

 data on which accurate generalization 

 may be ba.sed, play an important part in 

 the development of the science of anthro- 

 pology, in which minute detail and exact 

 differentiation have increasing weight. 

 The scientific value of an ethnologic col- 

 lection depends particularly on the knowl- 

 edge and skill of the collector. 



Archeolof/!/. — In this branch there are 

 for examination caves, rock -shelters, 

 mounds, village and camp sites, shell- 

 heaps, refuse-heaps, mines and quarries, 

 workshops, pueblos, cliff-ruins, cavate 

 lodges, garden beds, irrigation works, 

 forts, altars, shrines, springs, towers, 

 stone mounds, cemeteries, camp sites, etc. 

 While each of these requires individual 

 treatment, depending on the conditions, 

 and the judgment of the explorer may 

 modify the methods, modern science re- 

 quires that all data be reduced to meas- 

 urement and graphic delineation. Thus 



