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CUMURIPA CUQUIAR A.CH1 



[ B. A. E. 



Cum-i-um-has.— Hurt, ibid., 1856, 230, 1857. Cum- 

 min-tahs.— Head, ibid., 149, 1868. Cumpes.— 

 Pino, Noticias Hist. N. Mex., 88, 1849. Cumum- 

 bah.— We.st (1858) in H. R. Ex. Doe. 'iy.STlh Chik.. 

 2dsesa.,113,1862. Cum-um-pahs. — Siiniisnii (is^iii, 

 Exped. Across Utah, 34. 4<>0, 1876. Cun-i-um-hahs.— 

 Hurt in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1856, 228, 1857. Kumumbar.— 

 Dotv in Ind. AtT. Rep. 1864, 175, l.S(15. Treaber 

 TJtes.— Hurt in Ind. Aff. Rep. 185.5, 197, 1856 (mis- 

 print for U'(ber). Weber River Yutas.— Burton, 

 City of Saints, 578, 1861. ■Weber-TJtes.— Cooley in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 17, 1865. 



Cumuripa. A Nevoine pueblo and the 

 seat of a Spanish mission founded in 161U; 

 situated on the w. tributary of the Rio 

 Yaqui, about 12 m. n. k. e. of Buena Vis- 

 ta, and about 20 m. n. of Cocori, in So- 

 nora, Mexico; pop. 450 in 1678 and 165 

 in 1730, but tlie village contained only 4 

 families in 1849. It is now i)ractically a 

 white Mexican town. The inhabitants, 

 also called Cumuripa, probably spoke a 

 dialect slightl)' different from the Ne- 

 vome proper. (f. w. n. ) 



Comoripa. — Kino, map (17U2) in Stiiclilein, Neue 

 Welt-Kdtt, 74, 1725. Comuripa.— Rivera (173U) 

 quoted t>y Bancroft, No. Mex. States, 1,513, 1884. 

 Cumuripa. — Escudero, Xoticias Son. v Sin., 99, 

 1849. S. Pablo Comuripa.— Zapata (1678) quoted 

 by Bancroft, op. cit., 246. S. Pedro. — SonoraCat- 

 alogo quoted by Bancroft, ibid. 



Cufieil. A tribe, evidently Yuman, de- 

 scribed by Garces in 1775-76 (Diary, 444, 

 450, 1900) as inhabiting the territory be- 

 tween San Diego, s. Cal., and the mouth 

 of the Rio Colorado. They were friendly 

 with the Cocopa. From their habitat 

 and the similarity in their names they 

 would seem to be identical with the Com- 

 eya, but (jarces mentions the latter, under 

 the name (qiuemaya, as if distinct. On 

 the map of Father Pedro Font (1777), 

 who was a companion of Father Garces, 

 the Cufieil are located in x. Lower Califor- 

 nia, between lat. 31° and 32°. According 

 to Gatschet the name Kunyil, or Kiruei/ll, 

 in theComeya dialect, signifies 'all men,' 

 'people.' (f. w. n.) 



Cunai. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 353, 1864. Cun- 

 yeel. —Font ( 1777 j , map in Coues, Garces Diary , 1900. 



Cunitcacahel ('water of the great 

 rocks'). A rancheria, probably Cochimi, 

 connected with Purfsima mission, which 

 was near the w. coast of Lower California, 

 about lat. 26° 20^— Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th 

 s., v, 188, 1857. 



Cunquilipinoy. Mentioned as a pueblo 

 of the province of Atripuy, in the region 

 of the lower Rio Grande, N. Mex., in 

 1598.— Onate (1598) in Doc. Ined., xvi, 

 115, 1871. 



Cuplieag ('a place shut in,' from htppl, 

 'closed'). The Algonquian name of 

 Stratford, Fairfield co.. Conn. There 

 was probably a village of the same name 

 there before the English settlement in 

 1639.— Benj. Trumbull, Hist. Conn., 1,109, 

 1818; J. H. Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 

 13, 1881. 



Cuppunaugunnit. Mentioned as if a 

 Pequot village in 1637, probably in New 

 London co., Conn. 



Cuppunaugunnit. — Williams (1637) in Mass. Hist. 

 Soe. Coll., 4th s., VI, 201, 1852. Cuppunnaugunnit. — 

 Ibid. 



Cups. See liccepinchs. 



Capstones. Blocks of stone unworked 

 except for small cavities made in them. 

 These cups vary from a rough pecking, 

 probably the initial stage, to smooth, 

 hemis]jherical depressions 2 in. in diam- 

 eter; at the bottom of many of the 

 latter is a secondary pit as though made 

 with a flint drill or gouge. They range 

 in number from 1 to 20, though rarely 

 one stone may contain 50 or 100. In a 

 majority of cases they are of sandstone. 

 On irregular blocks the pits are on one 

 side only, extending over less than half 

 the surface; on flat slabs they are always 

 on both sides. ]\Iany theories have been 

 advanced to account for these cupstones; 

 but while any suggestion may apply to 

 a few specimens, it will not fit the ma- 

 jority. There is a prevalent idea that 

 they were used fot < racking nut'^ in, for 

 which reason the block'- are sometnnts 

 called nutstones, but onl^v 

 casual inspection is neces- 

 sary to prove this belief ni- 

 correct. The holes aie not 

 often on the same le\el, and 

 in any case it would be nec- 

 es.sary to pii-k the 

 stone up and turn it 

 overeachtimeitwa'-. 

 used. TheyareaKo 

 supposed to be lor 

 grinding paint, or to 

 steady drills, spin- 

 dles, or firestick^; 

 but it is evident that 

 only one pit coidd 

 be used at a time for any of these pur- 

 poses. Undoubtedly the real explana- 

 tion awaits determination. Cupstones 

 are the most abundant and widespread 

 of the larger relics. They not only occur 

 on many village sites but are scattered at 

 random over the country, often in places 

 where diligent search fails to disclose ab- 

 original relics of any other form. See 

 Problematical, objects. Consult Fowke in 

 13th Rep. B. A.E., 1896; Rau inCont. N. 

 A. Ethnol., V, 1882. (g. f. ) 



Cuquiarachi. A former pueldo of the 

 Teguima Opata and the seat of a Si)anish 

 mission founded in 1653; situated about 

 6 m. southward from Fronteras, n. e. 

 Sonora, Mexico. Pop. 380 in 1678; 76 in 

 1730. When visited by Bartlett in 1850 

 it was deserted, apparently on account of 

 the Apache. . . (f. w. h. ) 



Cocuiarachi.— Bartlett, Personal Narrative, i, 273, 

 18.54. Cuquiarachi.^Bandelier in Arch. Hist. 

 Papers, iv, 529, 1892 (wrongly identified with 

 Fronterasj . Cuquiaratzi, — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 

 343, 1864. Cuquiarichi.— Mange (i^a. 1700) quoted 

 by Bancroft, No. Mex. States, l, 233, 1884. Cu- 

 quiurachi. — Hamilton, Mexican Handbook, 47, 

 1883. San Ignacio Cuqiuarachi. — Zapata (1678) 

 quoted by Bancroft, op. cit., 246. 



