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CORAPA— COECHAUG 



[b. a. e. 



quite musical, but all the men and most 

 of the women also understand Spanish to 

 some extent. They are proud of their 

 Indian blood, and although they have 

 largely adopted the clothing of the white 

 Mexicans there is very little intermar- 

 riage between the two. The native cos- 

 tume of the men consists of buckskin 

 trousers and a very short tunic of home- 

 woven woolen material dyed dark blue. 

 The Cora, especially those of the high 

 sierra, possess an air of independence and 

 manliness. In speech, religion, and cus- 

 toms they are akin to the Huichol, and 

 while they trade with them for red paint, 

 wax, and feathers, and the services of 

 Huichol shamans are highly regarded by 

 the Cora, there is no strong alliance be- 

 tween the two tribes. Most of the Cora 

 men are slightly bearded, especially on 

 the chin. The women weave belts and 

 bags of cotton and wool, and the men 

 manufacture fish-nets which are used in 

 dragging the streams. Their houses are 

 of stone with thatched roofs, with little 

 ventilation. Their country, notwith- 

 standing its altitude, is malarial, yet the 

 Cora are said to attain remarkable lon- 

 gevity and their women are well pre- 

 served. In the valley a disease of the 

 eyes prevails in summer. The waters of a 

 crater lake e. of Santa Teresa are regarded 

 as sacred, and necessary to the perform- 

 ance of every ceremony. An afternoon 

 wind which prevails daily in the hot 

 country is believed to be beneficial to the 

 corn, and a tamal of ashes, 2 ft. long, is 

 sacrificed to it. Easter is celebrated by a 

 feast and a dance — a survival of mission- 

 ary training — and the mitote is also danced 

 for weeks in succession to bring needed 

 rai n . Conn ected w ith thei r puberty ce re- 

 monies is the drinking of home-made 

 mescal. Fasting, sometimes conducted 

 by shamans alone, is a ceremonial feature 

 and is thought to be necessary to insure 

 good crops. The morning star is the 

 principal god and protecting genius, being 

 characterized as a brother, a youth armed 

 with bow and arrow who once shot the 

 powerful sun at noontime on account of 

 ins intense heat. The moon is also a 

 god — both man and woman — and there 

 are many others, as everything is be- 

 lieved to be animate and powerful. In 

 their sacred songs the musical bow, at- 

 tached to a gourd, is played. At 15 years 

 the Cora reach the marriageable age. 

 Marriages are arranged by the parents of 

 the boy, who on five occasions, every 

 eighth day, go to ask for the bride they 

 have selected. A new-born child was 

 named after an uncle or an aunt, and at 

 certain intervals during childhood feasts 

 were prepared in its honor. It is said 

 that on the spot where the relative of a 

 Cora was killed in a fight a piece of 



cloth was dipped in blood and kept as 

 a remembrance until his death was 

 avenged by killing the slayer or one of 

 the males of his family. Some of the 

 Cora still deposit the bodies of the dead 

 in caves. The population is estimated at 

 2,500. The settlements pertaining to the 

 various divisions of the Cora group are: 

 Apozolco, Cienega, Comatlan, Corapa, 

 Guasamota, Guaynamota, Ixtacan, Jesus 

 Maria, Mesa del Nayarit, Nuestra Seiiora 

 del Rosario, Peyotan, San Diego, San 

 Francisco, San Juan Bautista, San Lucas, 

 Santa Fe, Santa Rosa, Santa Teresa, and 

 Tonati. See Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 

 1,1902. (f. w. H.) 



Chora. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 59, 186-1. Chota. — 

 Ibid. Hashi, — Lumholtz, Unknown Mex., i, 492, 

 1902 (' crocodiles': Hnichol name). Nayaerita. — 

 Orozco y Berra, op. cit. Nayari.— Lumholtz, op. 

 cit. (own name). Nayarita. — Orozco y Berra, op. 

 cit. Nayariti. — Lumholtz, op. cit. (alternative 

 form of their own name). 



Corapa. A pueblo pertaining to the 

 Cora division of the Piman stock and a 

 visita of the mission of Nuestra Seiiora del 

 Rosario. Probably situated on the Rio 

 San Pedro, Jalisco, Mexico. 



S. Juan Corapa.— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 280, 1864. 

 Corazones (Span.: 'hearts'). A pueblo 

 of the Opata, determined by Hodge (Coro- 

 nado's INIarch, 35, 1899) to have been situ- 

 ated at or near the site of the present 

 Ures, on the Rio Sonora, Sonora, Mexico. 

 It was so named by Cabeza de Vaca in 

 1536 because the inhabitants presented to 

 him more than 600 deer hearts. It was 

 visited also by Coronado and his army in 

 1540, called by his chroniclers San Hier- 

 onimo de los Corazones, and described 

 as being situated midway between Culia- 

 can and Cibola ( Zufii ) . The houses were 

 built of mats; the natives raised corn, 

 beans, and melons, dressed in deerskins, 

 and used poisoned arrows, (f. w. h. ) 



Cora9ones.— Barcia, Historiadores, I, 36, 1749. Cora- 

 zones. — Cabeza da Vaca (1536), Smith trans., 172, 

 1871. San Hieronimc— Castafieda (1596) in 14th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 501, 1896. San Hieronimc de los Cor- 

 azones. — Ibid., 484. Villa de los Corapones. — Ovie- 

 do, Historia, in, 610, 1853. 



Corbitant. A Massachuset sachem. 

 He was a determined foe of the English, 

 and when Massasoit entered into an alli- 

 ance with them he strove to wrest the 

 chieftaincy from the latter and form a 

 league with the Narraganset to expel the 

 intruders. He caught and tried to kill 

 Squanto, whom he called the tongue of 

 the English, and Hobomok, their spy 

 and guide. With other hostile chiefs he 

 signed a treatv of peace with the English 

 in 1621.— Drake, Bk. Inds., 93, 1880. 



Corchaug. A tribe or band formerly 

 occu]iying Riverhead and Southold town- 

 ships on Long id., N. Y., n. of Peconic 

 bay, and extending w. to Wading r. 

 Cutchogue, Mattituck, Ashamomuck, and 

 Aquebogue were probably sites of their 

 villages. The Yannococ Indians, n. of 



