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DTEPAITAZHI DUHARHE 



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Washabe. J. 0. Dorsev also gives it as a 

 Nikapashna gens, but this is seemingly 

 an error. 



Xe jSeze (iataji. — Dorsev in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 22S, 

 229, 1897. 



Dtepaitazhi ( ' touch no buffalo head '). 

 A subgens of the Dhatada gens of the 

 Omaha. 



Xe-da it'aji. — Dorsev in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 226, 

 1897. 



Dtepaitazhi ( ' does not touch a buffalo 

 head or skull'). A subgens of the Wa- 

 shabe gens of the Ponca. 

 xe-da it'aji. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 229, 

 1897. 



Dtesanhadtadhisliaii (pertaining to the 

 sacred skin of an albino buffalo cow). 

 Given as a subgens of the Hanga gens of 

 the Omaha, but it is seemingly an error. 



Hanga-qti.— Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 227, 1897 

 ('real Hanga'). X6'^®2^"<*3.taji. — Ibid, ('do not 

 eat buffalo tongues'), x^sa^ha^a-^ican. — Ibid. 

 Wacabe. — Ibid. { ' dark buff;uo ' ) . 



Dtesinde ('buffalo tail'). Given as a 

 subgens of the Washabe gens of the Ponca. 



Xe-^eze ^ataji. — Dorsey in 1.5th Rep. B. A. E., 229, 

 1897 ('does not eat buffalo tongues'). x^'JiSs^' 

 fiataji. — Ibid, ('does not eat a very young buffalo 

 calf ) . xe-sinde. — Ibid., 228. 



Dtesindeitazhi ( ' does not touch a buf- 

 falo tail'). Given as a subgens of the 

 Ponca gens Nikapashna. 

 Xe-sinde-it'aji. — Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E.,228, 

 1897. 



Duahe. Mentioned by Oviedo (Hist. 

 Gen. Indies, iii, 628, 1853 ) as oneof the pro- 

 vinces or villages vi.sited by Ayllonin 1520; 

 probably on the South Carolina coast. 



Duasno. A former Kawia village on 

 or near the Cahuilla res., s. Cal. (Jackson 

 and Kinney, Rep. Miss. Ind., 18, 1883). 

 Possibly intended for Durazno (Span. 

 ' peach ' ) . 



Dubois. Mentioned only by McKenney 

 and Hall (Ind. Tribes, iii, 79, 1854) in a 

 list of tribes. Possibly intended for Gens 

 des Bois (Hankutchin, Tschantoga, etc. ) ; 

 otherwise unidentified. 



Duck Lake. A local naine for a band of 

 Okinagan in s. w. British Columbia; 

 pop. 24 in 1901.— Can. Ind. Aff. for 1901, 

 pt. II, 166. 



Duck tablets. Prehistoric objects of un- 

 determined use, made of wood, 

 bone, and metal, and represent- 

 ing in a conventional manner 

 the figure of a duck. The most 

 typical examples are certain 

 paddle-like objects of wood 

 found by Cushing in excava- 

 tions at Key Marco, Fla., and 

 connected by him with other 

 similar forms in stone and silver 

 found also in Florida, as well as °"<='* tablet 

 with various other classes of °[o^r°°a; 

 objects thought to embody the about 1-30.' 

 duck motive, such as the bird- (cushing) 

 stone (q.v. ), the banner stone (q.v. ), and 

 the calumet (q. v. ). Although these tab- 

 lets were undoubtedly symbolic, the ex- 

 act significance and manner of use can not 



be determined, and they are therefore 

 classed with problematical objects (q. v. ). 

 See Cushing in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, 

 XXXV, 1897. (w. H. H.) 



Ducoigne, Jean Baptiste. A Kaskaskia 

 chief at the beginning of the 19th cen- 

 tury, noted mainly for his firm adher- 

 ence to the United States and friendship 

 for the whites. Reynolds (Pion. Hist., 

 Ill, 22, 1887) describes him as a cunning 

 half-blood of considerable talent. In his 

 Memoirs, Gen. W. H. Harrison, who had 

 dealings with Ducoigne, speaks of him 

 as "a gentlemanly man, by no means 

 addicted to drink, and possessing a very 

 strong inclination to live like a white 

 man; indeed has done so as far as his 

 means would allow." Writing to the 

 Secretary of War, he says: "Ducoigne's 

 long and well-proved friendship for the 

 United States has gained him the hatred 

 of all the other chiefs and ought to be an 

 inducement with us to provide as well for 

 his happiness, as for his safety." Ac- 

 cording to Reynolds, Ducoigne asserted 

 that neither he nor his peoijle had shed 

 the blood of white men. He was a 

 signer of the treaties of Vincennes, Aug. 

 7 and 13, 1803; by the latter the United 

 States agreed to build a house and in- 

 close 100 acres of land for him. He had 

 two sons, Louis and Jefferson, and a 

 daughter, Ellen, who married a white 

 man and in 1850 was living in Indian 

 Ter. The name of Louis appears on be- 

 half of the Kaskaskia in the treaty of Ed- 

 wardsville. 111., Sept. 25, 1818. Ducoigne's 

 death probably occurred shortly before 

 Oct., 1832, as it is stated in the treaty 

 at Castor Hill, of that date, that there 

 should be reserved "to Ellen Ducoigne, 

 the daughter of their late chief," a certain 

 tract of land. The name is perpetuated 

 in that of the town of Duquoin, Perry 

 CO., 111. (c. T. ) 



Duel. See Nith songs. 



Dueztumac. A former Maricopa ran- 

 cheria about 45 leagues (120 m.) above 

 the mouth of the Rio Gila in s. w. Ari- 

 zona; visited by Father Sedelmair in 

 1744.— Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex.,366, 

 1889. 



Santa Maria del Agfua Caliente. — Ibid., 367 (proba- 

 bly the same). 



Dugh-sokum. Given as the name of a 

 tribe (Malletinlnd. Aff. Rep., 198, 1877), 

 but really that of the place where Port 

 Madison, Wash. , now stands. (Boulet in 

 letter. Mar. 22, 1886) . 



Duharhe. A country on the coast of 

 Florida, seen by Lucas Vazquez de Ay- 

 llon in 1520, whose people were light in 

 color and had abundant hair. The chief 

 who ruled over this and other provinces 

 was said to have been nourished on a cer- 

 tain food that caused him to grow to a 

 gigantic size. — Barcia, Ensayo, 4, 1723. 



