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Conchanty. A town of the Creek Nation 

 about the junction of Conchanti or. with 

 Arkansas r., Ind. Ter. 



Conchanti.— Gatschft, Creek Mifir. Leg., ll, 185, 

 18HS. Ikan'-tchati.— Ibid. Kanshadi.— Ibid. 



Conchartimicco's Town. A former town 

 on Apalachicola r., Fla., evidently named 

 from achief called Conchart, orConcharti, 

 and probably belonging to the Lower 

 Creeks. 



Conchaptimicco's town. — Jesup (1837) in H. R. 

 Doc. 78, •2rithC()ng.,2d sess., 95, 1838. Concharti- 

 micco's town.— Jesup (1837) in H.R. Doc. '225, '25th 

 Cong., 3d se,ss.,65, 1839. 



Conchatikpi {Ku"s}iak-tikpi, 'reed-brake 

 knob'). A former Choctaw town on a 

 creek of the same name, popularly called 

 Coonshark, in the s. part of Neshoba 

 CO., Miss. It derived its name from the 

 creek, which in turn was called after a 

 prominent bluff near a reed-brake. — 

 Halbert in Miss. Hist. Soc. Publ., vi, 

 430, 1902. 



Concliayon. One of the 7 villages or 

 tribes forming the Taen.sa confederacy in 

 1699. — Iberville in Margry, Dec, iv, 179, 

 1880. 



Conchi. Mentioned by Garcia (Origen 

 Inds., 293, 1729) as an Indian province 

 of New Mexico, but more likely identi- 

 fiable with the Conchas, or Conchos, a 

 little-known tribe formerly living on a 

 river of the same name in Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. (f. w. h. ) 



Conclio ( Span. : ' conch ' ) . The inhab- 

 itants of Concho bay, e. coast of Lower 

 California, on which Loreto mission was 

 established in 1697. The people spoke 

 the Cochimi dialect. — Picolo (1702) in 

 Lettres Edif., ii, 63, 1841. 



Condawhaw. A Seneca settlement, in 

 1779, on the site of the present North 

 Hector, N. Y. — Doc. of 1779 quoted by 

 Conover, Kanadesaga and Geneva MS., 

 B. A. E. 



Conejeros (Span.: ' rabbit men ') . An 

 unidentified Apache band, mentioned 

 by Barcia (Ensayo Cronologico, 169, 

 1723): " In 1596 the Apaches called Cone- 

 jeros destroyed a people they described 

 as red and white who had come from 

 Florida. The Si)aniards could not ascer- 

 tain of what nation they were nor find 

 traces of their journey." 



Conejoholo ( ' a kettle on a long upright 

 object.' — Hewitt). A Conoy village, 

 identical with the Dekanoagah of Evans, 

 which Day locates on the k. bank of the 

 Susquehanna, on or near the site of Bain- 

 bridge, Lancaster co., Pa. The Conoy 

 removed to Conejoholo from their former 

 home on the Potomac about 1700 and 

 again removed farther up the Susque- 

 hanna before 1743. (.1. M. ) 

 Conejaghera.— Doc. of 1705 in Day, Penn., 390, 

 1843. Conejoholo. — Doc. of 1743 in Brinton, Lenape 

 Leg., '26, 1S,S5. Dekanoagah.— Evans (1707) in Day, 

 op. cit., 389, iai3. 



Conejos (Span.: 'rabbits'). A small 

 Diegueno band on or near Capitan Grande 

 res., at least 9 m. from San Diego, Cal. ; 

 pop. 80 in 1883. 



Conemaugli. There seems formerly to 

 have been a Delaware (?) village of this 

 name about the present Conemaugli, on 

 Kiskiminetas r. , Cambria co.. Pa. 

 Conemack Old T. — La Tour, map, 1784. 



Cones. Small prehistoric objects of 

 polished stone, the use of which is unde- 

 termined, and they are therefore classed 

 with problematical objects (q. v. ). They 

 are usually made of hematite or other 

 hard material, and occur most plentifully 

 in the states e. of the Mississippi. The 

 base often varies somewhat from a circle, 

 and the apex is sometimes quite low. 

 Occasionally the specimens are truncated 

 or abruptly sloped above or grade into 

 hemispheres (q. v.), and there are 

 doubly conical and egg forms which grade 

 into the typical plummets (q. v.), the 

 top in cases being truncated or slightly 

 hollowed out, as if to accommodate some 

 kind of fastening. Some of the cones 

 approximate in form the more conical 

 boat-stonea (q. v.). It is surmised that 

 they were carried as charms or served as a 

 part of the "medicine" kit of the shaman. 

 It is possible, however, that they were 

 employed in playing some 

 game. It is observed that 

 kindred objects of hematite 

 of more or less irregular 

 shape show facets, such as 

 would result from rubbing 

 them down for the red color 

 which they somewhat readily yield. Sim- 

 ilar conical objects of hematite are used 

 by the Pueblos of to-day and were used by 

 the ancient tribes in making sacred paint; 

 a tablet of sandstone or shale served as 

 the grinding plate, and the cone, which 

 was the muller, also yielded the paint. 

 See Hemispheres. 



Cones are described and illustrated 

 among others bv Fowke (1) in 13th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1896, (2) Archsiol. Hist. Ohio, 

 1902; Jones, Antiq. So. Inds., 1873; 

 Moorehead, Prehist. Inipls., 1900; Rau in 

 Smithson. Cont., xxii, 6, 1872. 



(w. H. H. G. F.) 



Conestoga (Kanastoge, 'at the place of 

 the immersed ])ole ' ) . An important Iro- 

 quoian tribe that formerly lived on Sus- 

 quehanna r. and its branches. When 

 first met by Capt. John Smith, in 1608, 

 and until their conquest by the Iroquois 

 confederation in 1675, they were in alli- 

 ance with the Algonquian tribes of the e. 

 shore of Chesapeake bay and at war with 

 those on the w. shore. They were de- 

 scribed as warlike and as possessed of a 

 physique far superior to that of all the 

 other neighboring tribes. By conquest 



cone of hematite; 

 Kentucky. (1-3) 



