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COSUMNl COTTON 



[b. a. b. 



1723. Costa.— French, Hist. Coll. La., n. s., ii, 247, 

 187.3. Coste.— Gentleman of Elva.s (1567), ibid., ii, 

 149, 1850. Costehe.— Biedma (1.544), ibid., 102. 



Cosumni. A tribe, probably Moquel- 

 umnan, formerly residing on or near Co- 

 sumnes r. , 8an Joaquin co. , Cal. Accord- 

 ing to Rice (quoted by Mooney in Am. 

 Anthrop., iii, 259, 1890) the.se Indians 

 went almost naked; their houses were 

 of bark, sometimes thatched with grass 

 and covered with earth: the bark was 

 loo.sened from the trees by repeated blows 

 with etone hatchets, the latter having 

 the head fastened to the handle with 

 deer sinew. Their ordinary weapons 

 were bows and stone-tipped arrows. The 

 women made finely woven conical bas- 

 kets of grass, the smaller ones of which 

 held water. Their amusements were 

 chiefly dancing and football; the dances, 

 however, were in some degree ceremo- 

 nial. Their principal deity was the sun, 

 and the women had a ceremony which 

 resembled the sun dance of the tribes of 

 the upper Missouri. Their dead were 

 buried in graves in the earth. The tribe 

 is now practically extinct. 

 Cosemenes. — Beechev, Narr., I, 366, 1831. Cosum- 

 nes.— Hide in U. S.'Expl. Exped., vi, 631, 1846. 

 Cosumnies. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 8, 1860. 

 Kosumnes. — Duflot de Mofras, ExpL, n, 376, 1844. 



Cotan. An Algonquian village in 1585 

 about Ransomville, Beaufort co., N. C. 

 Cotam.— Duteh map (1621) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 I, 18.56. Cotan,— Map in Smith (1629), Virginia, I, 

 repr. 1819. 



Cotechney. A town and palisade of the 

 Tuscarora in North Carolina, which be- 

 came noted in their war of 1711-18; 

 situated, according to Hawks, on the site 

 of Ft Barnwell, but according to Graffen- 

 ried the town lay about 3 m. from the 

 palisade, evidently on the opposite side 

 of the Neuse, about the mouth of Con- 

 tentneacr., the name of which is prob- 

 ably a form of Cotechney. It was a large 

 town, the residence of Hancock, one of 

 the jirincipal Tuscarora chiefs. Here 

 Lawson and Graffenried were prisoners in 

 1711, and it was the scene of the execu- 

 tion of the former. On the outbreak of 

 the Tuscarora war the inhabitants aban- 

 doned the town and intrenched them- 

 selves in the palisade, which was attacked 

 by Barnwell, Jan. 28, 1712, when 400 of 

 its defenders were killed or taken. In- 

 stead of completing his work, Barnwell, 

 to save the lives of white prisoners held 

 in the fort, made a worthless treaty with 

 the remainder, who at once joined the 

 other hostiles. (.j. n. b. n.) 



Catchne.— Pollock il717) in N. C. Rec, ll, 288, 

 1886. Catechna.— Graffenried (1711), ibid., l, 923, 

 1886. Catechne.— Pollock (1712), ibid., 882. Cat- 

 echnee,— Pollock (1713), ibid. ,11, 39. Catechneys.- 

 Pollock (1713), ibid., 38. Contah-nah.— Lawson 

 (1710), Hi.st. N. C, 383, 1860. Coteching.— Pollock 

 (1713) in N. C. Rec, ll, 24, 1.SS6. Cotechnees.— 

 Pollock (1713), ibid,, 62. Cotechneys.— Hawks, N. 

 C, II, 517, 18.58. Hancock Fort.— Hyde (1712) in 

 N. C. Rec, I, 900, 1886. Hencocks-Towne.— Graf- 

 fenried (1711), ibid., 927. 



Cotejen, A Costanoan village formerly 

 near San Francisco bay, Cal. — Mission 

 book (1784) quoted by Tavlor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Cotocanahut. Given as one of the Cher- 

 okee " valley towns" in a document of 

 1755 (Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 142, 

 1887). Not identified. 



Cotohautustennuggee. A former Lower 

 Creek town on the right bank of Upatoie 

 cr., in Muscogee co., Ga. — Rovce in 18th 

 Rep. B. A. E:, pi. cxxii, 1900.' 



Cotonam. A tribe affiliated with the 

 Carrizos of the Coahuiltecan family and 

 living in their vicinity, though their dia- 

 lect differs largely from the Comecrudo 

 language. The last of this tribe were at 

 La Noria rancheria, in s. Hidalgo co., 

 Tex., in 1886, and one man at Las Prietas 

 was slightly acquainted with the native 

 dialect. They call an Indian ;<;«h/io, and 

 are the Xaimame or Haname of the Texan 

 tribes farther n. The Tonkawa say that 

 the Cotonam were not cannibals and 

 that they wore sandals instead of moc- 

 casins, (a. s. g. ) 



Cotoplanemis. Probably a division of 

 the Moquelumnan family, living on a 

 reserve between Stanislaus and Tuo- 

 lumne rs., Cal., in 1851; but it is possible 

 that they may have been a band of the 

 Cholovone division of the Mariposan 

 family. 



Co-ta-plane-mis. — Johnston (1851) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 

 61, 32d Cong., 1st sess., 20, 18.52. Co-to-plane-mis.— 

 Ibid. 



Cotsjewaminck. A former village on 

 Long Island, N. Y., probably near the 

 w. end.— Doc. of 1645 in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., XIV, 60, 1883. 



Cotton, Judging from the lack of men- 

 tion of it by earlj^ writers 'on the s. jior- 

 tion of the United States, cotton was not 

 cultivated by the tribes of this section, 

 notwithstanding the favorable soil and 

 climate. The cotton blankets seen by 

 De Soto's troops on the lower Mississippi 

 were said to have been brought from the 

 W., possibly from the far-off Pueblo 

 country of New Mexico and Arizona. 

 Although the latter section seems less 

 favorable to its cultivation, cotton has 

 been raised to a considerable extent by 

 the Pueblos, especially the Hopi, from 

 time immemorial, and cloth, cord, thread, 

 and seed are commonly found in ancient 

 deposits in caves, cliff-dwellings, and 

 ruined pueblos throughout that region. 

 The Hopi are now the only cultivators 

 and weavers of cotton, their products, 

 consisting chiefly of ceremonial robes, 

 kilts, and scarfs, finding their way 

 through trade to many other tribes who, 

 like the Hopi, employ them in their re-, 

 ligious performances. In the time of 

 Coronado (1540-42) and of Espejo (1583) 

 cotton was raised also by the people of 



