340 



CONOY 



[b. a. b. 



those tribes. In 1798 they attended a 

 council near Detroit and used the turkey 

 as their signature. 



The customs and beliefs of the Conoy 

 ma}' best be given by the following quota- 

 tion from White's RelatioItineris,ca. 1635, 

 although the author's interpretations of 

 customs often go far astray: "The natives 

 are very tall and well jiroportioned ; their 

 skin is naturally rather dark, and they 

 make it uglier by staining it, generally 

 with red paint mixed with oil, to keep 

 off the mosquitoes, thinking more of their 

 own comfort than of appearances. They 

 disfigure their countenances with other 

 colors, too, painting them in various and 

 truly hideous and frightful ways, either 

 a dark blue above the nose and red below, 

 or the reverse. And as they live almost 

 to extreme old age without having beards, 

 they counterfeit them with paint, l)y 

 drawing lines of various colors from the 

 extremities of the lips to the ears. They 

 generally have black hair, which they 

 carry round in a knot to the left ear, 

 and fasten with a band, adding some 

 ornament which is in estimation among 

 them. Some of them wear on their fore- 

 heads the figure of a fish made of copper. 

 They adorn their necks with glass beads 

 strung on a thread like necklaces, though 

 these beads are getting to l)e less valued 

 among them and less useful for trade. 

 They are clothed for the most part in 

 deerskins or some similar kind of cov- 

 ering, whicli hangs down behind like a 

 cloak. They wear aprons round the mid- 

 dle, and leave the rest of the body naked. 

 The young boys and girls go about with 

 nothing on them. The soles of their feet 

 are as hard as horn, and they tread on 

 thorns and briers without being hurt. 

 Their arms are bows, and arrows 3 ft. 

 long, tipped with stag's horn, or a white 

 flint sharpened at the end. They shoot 

 these with such skill that they can stand 

 off and hit a sparrow in the middle; and, 

 in order to become expert by practice, 

 they throw a spear up in the air and 

 then send an arrow from the bow string 

 and drive it into the spear before it falls. 

 But since they do not string the bow very 

 tight, they can not hit a mark at a great 

 distance. They live l)y means of these 

 weapons, and go out every day through 

 the fields and woods to hunt squirrels, 

 partridges, turkeys, and wild animals. 

 For there is an abundance of all these, 

 though we ourselves do not yet venture 

 to procure food by hunting, for fear of 

 ambushes. They live in houses built in 

 an oblong, oval shape. Light is admitted 

 into these through the roof, by a window 

 a foot and a half long; this also serves 

 to carry off the smoke, for they kindle the 

 fire in the middle of the floor, and sleep 

 around the fire. Their kings, however, 



and chief men have private apartments, 

 as it were, of theirown, and beds, made by 

 driving 4 posts into the ground, and ar- 

 ranging poles above them horizontally." 

 According to the same authority they 

 acknowledged one god of heaven, yet 

 paid him no outward worship, but strove 

 in every way to appease a certain imagin- 

 ary spirit, which they called Ochre, that 

 he might not hurt them. They also wor- 

 shiped corn and fire. The missionary 

 probably alludes by this last statement 

 to the use of corn and fire in certain reli- 

 gious ceremonies. The villages of the 

 Conoy were Catawissa, Conejoholo, 

 Conoytown, and Kittamaaquindi. 



(j. M. C. T. ) 

 Arogisti,— Colden (1727), Five Nations, 40, 1747 

 (given as the English name of the Cahnowas in 

 1679). Cachnawayes. — Maryland treaty (1682) in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., HI, 323, 1853. Cahnowas.— 

 Colden, op. cit. Canagesse, — Ibid., 38. Canals. — 

 Heckewelder (1819) in Bozman, Md., i, 169, 1837 

 (giyen as the proper form). Canavest. — Graffen- 

 ried (1711) in N. C. Rec, l, 958, 1886. Canaways.— 

 Heckewelder, op. cit. Canawese. — Ibid. Cana- 

 west. — GralTenried, op. cit. Canhaways. — Drake, 

 Bk. Inds., viii, 1848. Canoise. — Penn. Records 

 (1707) in Day, Penn., 391, 1.S43. Canowes.— Mary- 

 land treaty (1682) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ni, 322, 

 1853. Canoyeas. — McKennevand Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 HI, 80, 1S.-4. Canoyias.— Colden (1727), Five Na- 

 tions, app., 58, 107, 1747. Canoys.— Doc. of 1764 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vn, 641, 1856. Coch- 

 newwasroonaw. — McKennev and Hall, Ind. 

 Tribes, in, 80, 1854. Connays.— Croghan (1757) 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vn, 268, 1856. Con- 

 noye,— Johnson (1757), ibid., 329. Connoys,— 

 Lincoln (1793) in Am. St. Papers, iv, 352, 

 1832. Conoies.— Imlay, West Terr., 291, 1797. 

 Conois.— Heckewelder (1819) in Bozman, Md., i, 

 169-171, 1837. Conoy.— Colden (1727), Five Na- 

 tions, app., 148, 1747. Conoy-uch-such. — Douglass, 

 Summary, ll, 315, 1755 (same?). Conoyucksuch- ' 

 roona.— McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, ni, 80, 

 1854 (same?). Gachnawas-haga. — Gatschetin Am. 

 Antiq., IV, 75, 18S1-S2 ( Mohawk name, according 

 to Pyrlaeus). Ganaway.— Day, Penn., 398, 1843 

 (form used in treaties before 1744). Ganawense.— 

 Ibid., 389. Ganawese. — Penns treaty (1701) in 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, vi, 140, 1857. Gana- 

 woose.— Boudinot, Star in the West, 126, 1816. 

 Ganawses.— Domenech, Deserts, I, 441, 1860. 

 Gangawese.— Conyngham in Day, Penn., 243, 1843. 

 Gannaouens.— D' lieu (1708) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 IX, 815, 1855. Ganniessinga. — Hennepin, New Dis- 

 coy., 59, 1698. Guananesses. — Domenech, De.serts, 

 I, 441, 1860 (same?). Kanaa. — VVorsley, View Am. 

 Inds., 92, 1828. Kanaai.— Boudinot," Star in the 

 West, 126, 1816. Kanai.— Worsley, op. cit. Ka- 

 nawhas. — Brinton, Lenape Legends, 213, 1885 

 (Johnston, on Shawnee authority, renders this 

 word, 'having whirlpools,' but Brinton thinks 

 it but another form of Canai or Conoy). Kan- 

 hawas.— Heckewelder (1819) in Bozman, Md., i, 

 169-171, 18.37. Kanhaways.— Drake, Bk. Inds., vin, 

 1848. Kenhawas.— Day, Penn., 243, 1843. Keno- 

 wiki. — Squier in Beach, Ind. Miscel., 34, 1877. 

 Konowikj. — Rafinesque, Am. Nations, l, 139, 1S36 

 (Delaware name). Kuhnauwantheew. — Anpau- 

 mut (1791) quoted by Brinton, Lenape Leg., 

 20,1885 (Mahican name). Pascatawaye. — White 

 (1634?),ReiatioInneris, 33, 1874. Pascatoe.— Ibid., 

 63. Pascatoways.— Brinton, Lenape Leg., 15, 1885. 

 Pascattawaye. — Herrman, map (1670) in Maps to 

 Accompany the Rep. of theComrs. on the Bndry. 

 Line bet, Va. and Md., 1873 (village about 

 Piscataway cr , s. side). Pascoticons. — Spilman 

 {ca. 1623) in Ma.ss. Hist. .Soc. CoU , 4th s., ix, 28, 

 note, 1871. Piscatawese. — Conyngham in Day, 

 Penn., 243. 1843. Piscatoway.— Maryland treaty 

 (1682) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., lil, 322, 18.53. 

 Piscatowayes. — Ibid., 323, Piscattawayes. — Brock- 



