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CUBO GUASIBAVIA — ^CUEVA PINTADA 



[b. a. e. 



Punyitsiama. — Hodge, field notes, B. A. E., 1895 

 (LafTiina name). 



Cubo Guasibavia. A former rancheria, 

 apparently Papago, visited by Kino and 

 Mange in 1701; situated in a volcanic 

 desert in n. w. Sonora, Mexico, between 

 the Rio Salado and the Gulf of California, 

 2 m. from the shore. 



Cubo Guasibavia. — Kino (1701) quoted by Bancroft, 

 No. Mex. States, I, 49.5, 1884. Duburcopota.— Ibid. 



Cuchendado. A Texan tribe, the last 

 that Cabeza de Yaca met before he left the 

 Gulf coast to continue inland. — Cabeza 

 de Vaca, Nar. (1542), Smith trans., 137, 

 1871. 



■ Cuchillones (Simn: 'knifers,' 'knife 

 people'). A former Costanoan division 

 or village e. of San Francisco bay, Cal. 

 In 1795, according to Engelhardt (Fran- 

 ciscans in Cal., 1897), they became in- 

 volved in a quarrel with the neophytes of 

 San Francisco mission, whereupon their 

 rancheria was attacked by the Spaniards. 



Cuchian.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Cuchiyaga ( ' place where there has been 

 suffering'). A former Calusa village on 

 one of the keys on the s. w. coast of Flor- 

 ida, about 1570. 



Cuchiaga. — Fontaneda {ca. 1575) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., 2d s., 11, 256, 1875. Cuchiyaga.— Fonta- 

 neda, Mem., Smith trans., 19, 1854. 



Cucho. An Indian i^rovince or settle- 

 ment of New Mexico, noted, with Cibola 

 (Zuni), Cicuich (Pecos], and others, in 

 Ramusio, Nav. et Viaggi, iii, 455, map, 

 1565. Probably only another form of 

 Cicuich or Cicuye, duplication being com- 

 mon in early maps of the region. 



Cuchuta. A former Opata pueblo and 

 the seat of a Spanish mission founded in 

 1653; situated in n. e. Sonora, INIexico, 

 near Fronteras; pop. 227 in 1678, 58 in 

 1730. It was abandoned on account of 

 depredations by the Suma and Jane, war- 

 like Mexican tribes. 



Chu-ui-chu-pa.— Bandelierin Arch. Inst. Papers, 

 IV, 59, 1S90 (same?). Cuchuta.— Doc. of 1730 cited 

 by Bancroft, No. Mex. States, l, 514, 18S4. San Fran- 

 cisco Javier Cuchuta. — Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. 

 Mex., 4th s., ni, 369, 1857. 



Cucbuveratzi ( ' valley or torrent of the 

 fish called matalote [the Gila trout].' — 

 Bandelier). A. former Opata settlement 

 a few miles n. e. of Fronteras, on the 

 headwaters of the Rio Bavispe, in the 

 N. e. corner of Sonora, Mexico. — Bande- 

 lier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 520, 1892. 



Cuclon. Given as a Cherokee town in a 

 document of 1799 (Rovce in 5th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 144, 1887). Not identitied. 



Cucomogna. A former Gabrielefio ran- 

 cheria in Los Angeles co. , Cal. , now called 

 Cucamonga. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 June 8, 1860, 



CocoMongo.— Pac. R. R. Rep., in, pt. 3, 34, 1856. 

 Cucamungabit. — Caballcria, Hist. San Bernardino 

 Val., 1905. Cucomogna.— Ried (1852) qiioted by 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 8, 1860. 



Cucoompbers. Mentioned as a tribe liv- 

 ing in the mountains near Mohave r., s. e. 

 Cal., not speaking the same language as 



the Mohave or the Paiute (Antisell in 



Pac. R. R. Rep., vii, 104, 1854). They 



were perhaps Serranos. 



Cucompners. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, .Tan. 31, 1862 



(misprint). 



Cuculato. A Yuman tribe living w. of 

 lower Rio Colorado in 1701, when they 

 were visited by Father Kino. Consag 

 (1746) classes them with the gulf or 

 southern divisions of the Cocopa. 

 Cuculato. —Venegas, Hist. Cal., l, 58, 1759. Cucu- 

 lutes. — Taylor in Browne, Res. Pac. Slope, app., 

 54, 1869. 



Cucurpe. A Eudeve pueblo, contain- 

 ing also some Tegui Opata, and the seat 

 of a Spanish mission subordinate to Ari- 

 vechi, founded in 1647; situated on the 

 headwaters of the Rio San Miguel de 

 Horcasitas, the w. branch of the Rio 

 Sonora, Mexico, about 25 m. s. e. of Mag- 

 dalena. Pop. 329 in 1678, 179 in 1730. 

 It is still inhabited by Opata. (f. w. h. ) 

 Cucurpe. — Doc. of 1730 cited by Bancroft, No. 

 Mex. States, l, 513, 1884. Cucurpo,— Kino, map 

 (1702) in Stocklein, Neue Welt-Bott, 74, 1726. 

 Reyes de Cucurpe. — Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. 

 Mex., 4th s.. Ill, 344, 18.57. Santos Reyes Cucurpe.— 

 Bancroft, No. Mex. States, i, 245, 1884. 



Cudurimuitac. A former Maricopa ran- 

 cheria on the Rio Gila, s. Ariz., visited 

 by Father Sedelmair in 1744. — Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. Mex., 366, 1889. 



Cuercomacbe. Apparently a division or 

 rancheria of the Yavapai on one of the 

 heads of Diamond cr., near the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado, Ariz., in the 

 18th century. They lived n. e. of the 

 Mohave, of whom they were enemies, 

 and are said to have spoken the same 

 language as the Havasupai. (f. w. h. ) 



Yabipais Cuercomaches. — Garc(?s (1776), Diary, 231, 

 410, 1900. Yavipai cuercomache. — Orozco y JBerra, 

 Geog., 41, 1864 (after Garct^s). 



Cuerno Verde (Span.: 'green horn'). 

 A celebrated Comanche warrior who led 

 various raids against the Spanish settle- 

 ments along the Rio Grande in New 

 Mexico in the latter part of the 18th cen- 

 tury. A force of 645 men, including 85 

 soldiers and 259 Indians, was led against 

 him by Juan de Anza, governor of New 

 Mexico, in 1778, and in a fight that took 

 place 95 leagues n. e. of Santa Fe, Cuerno 

 Verde was killed, together with 4 of his 

 subchiefs, his "high priest," his eldest 

 son, and 32 of his warriors. His name 

 is commemorated in Greenhorn r. and 

 mt., Colo. (f. w. II.) 



Cueva Pintada (Span.: 'painted cave,' 

 on account of numerous pictographs on 

 'its walls). A natural cave in the s. wall 

 of the Potrero de las Vacas, about 25 m. 

 w. of Santa Fe, N. Mex., anciently used 

 for ceremonial purposes and still one of 

 the points to which ceremonial jjilgrim- 

 ages are made liy the Queres. A few 

 cliff -dwellings of the excavated type occur 

 near by in the face of the cliff overlook- 

 ing the Canada de la Cuesta Colorada. 

 The small excavated rooms within and 



