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HASSASEI HATCHETS 



535 



The last of the pure Indians died about 

 1825, but in 1S30 there were still 14 per- 

 sons there of mixed Indian and negro 

 blood. It was the third of the praying 

 towns " in order, dignity, and antiquity." 

 Cf. I[(i!<siin(ini!«v. (.i. m. ) 



Hasanameset. — Hubbard (1680) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 2(1 s, V, 544, 181.5. Hasanamoset.— Gix.kiii 

 ( 1(177 ) in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc. , 1 1, 447, lSo6. Hasa- 

 nemesett.— Leverett (1677) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 -XIH, 513, 1881 . Hassanamasasitt. — Salisl)ury 1 1678) , 

 ibid., 5'-'6. Hassanamaskett. — Writer of 1676 in 

 Drake, Ind. Cliron., 17, ls:'.6. Hassanamesitt. — 

 Gookin (1674) in Mass. Hist. .^oc. Coll., Ists., 1, 184, 

 1806. Hassana-misco. — Barber, Hist. Coll. Mass., 

 568, lSo',1. Hassanamset. — (iookin (1677) in Trans. 

 Am. Anti<i. Soc, ll, 467, 1836. Hassanemesit. — 

 Rawson (1675) in Drake, Ind. Chron., 17, 1836. 

 Hassannamesit. — Gookin (1677) in Trans. Am. 

 Antiq. Soc, II, 435, 1836. Hassenemassit. — Harris 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc Coll., 1st s., ix, 198, 1804. 

 Hassinammisco. — Drake, Bk. Inds., bk, 2, 51, 1848. 

 Hassunnimesut.— Eliot quoted by Tookcr, Aljjonq. 

 Ser., X, 24, 1901. Hessamesit.— Writer of 1675 in 

 Mass. Hist, Soc Coll., 1st s., vi, 205, isOO. Hus- 

 sanamesit. — Drake, Ind. Chron., 166, 1836. 



Hassasei. A rancheria, probably I)ie- 

 guefio, on the coast of Lower California; 

 it was under the mission of San Miguel 

 de la Frontera, which -\vas in lat. 32°. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, INIay 18, 1860. 



Hassimanisco. A former Indian village 

 in Connecticut, probal)ly near Connecti- 

 cut r. In 176-i there were only 5 Indians 

 left.— Stiles (17H4) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., Ists., X, 105,1809. Cf. nasxiniamesit. 



Hassinunga. A tribe oi the Manahoac 

 confederacy living about KilO on the 

 headwaters of Rappahannock r. , Va. 

 Hasinninga. — Smith (1629), Virginia, l, 186, repr. 

 1819. Hassaninga. — Ibid., 74. Hassiniengas. — 

 Boudinot, Star in the West, 126, 1816. Hassinu- 

 gas.— Strachey {ra. 1612), Virginia, 104, 1849. 

 Hassinungaes.— Smith, op. cit., 74. 



Hastings Saw Mill. A local name for a 

 body of S(|uawmish of Fraser River 

 agency, Brit. Col. ; pop. 91 in 1898, the 

 last time the name is mentioned. 

 Haisting's Saw Mills.— Can. Ind. Alt', for 1889, 268. 

 Hastings Saw-mill.— Ibid., 1898, 413. Hastings Saw 

 Mills.— Il)id., 1886, 229. 



Hastwiana ('he was a little man.' — 

 Hewitt). A former Onondaga settle- 

 ment on the site of the present village of 

 Onondaga Valley, Onondaga co., N. Y. 



Gis-twe-ah'-na. — Morgan, League Iroq., 421, 1851. 

 Has-twi'-a'-na. — Hewitt, inf'n, 1886 (Onondaga 

 form). Touenho.— Denonville (1688) in N. V. Doc 

 Col. Hist., IX, 375, 1855. 



Hata. A Tsawatenok village at the 

 hea<l of Bond sd., Brit. Col. 

 Ha-ta. — Dawson in Can. Geol. Surv., map, 1888. 



Hataam ('rider'). A Diegueiio ran- 

 cheria in N. w. Lower California, near 

 Santo Tomas mission; visited in 1867 by 

 Wm. (labb, who o})tained a vocabulary 

 published in Ztschr. f. Ethnologic, 1877. 



Hatakfushi ( ' bird ' ) . A Chickasaw clan 

 of the Koi phratry. 



Fushi.— Giatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 96, 1884. 

 Ha-tak-fu-shi. — Morgan, Anc Soc, 163, 1877. 



Hatawa. A former LuiseiTo village in 

 the neighborhood of San Luis Rev mis- 

 sion, s. Cal. (Taylor in Cal. Farmer, May 

 11, 1860). Possibly the same as Ehutewa. 



Hatchcalamocha. A former Seminole 

 village near Drum swamp, 18 m. w. of 

 New ^Mickasuky town; probably in the 

 present Lafayette co., Fla. — H. R. Ex. 

 Doc. 74 (1823), 19th Cong., 1st sess., 27, 

 1826. 



Hatchets. These implements, made of 

 iron or steel, and hafted with wood, were 

 an important factor in the colonization 

 of northern America, and the value of 

 the hatchet, as well as that of the ax, 

 was soon recognized by the natives, 

 who ol)tained these tools through trade. 

 Large numbers of hatchets and axes of 

 both French and English manufacture are 

 obtained from aboriginal dwelling sites. 

 It is not known with certainty just what 

 al)origi- 

 n a 1 i m - 

 l^lements 

 and weap- 

 ons were 

 supplant- 

 ed by the 

 I'Airopean 

 hatchet, 

 but it 

 probably 

 super- 

 seded in """""" ■""■"" 



. oicci, in Bowlder; Vir&ima 



large part, 



the grooved ax, the celt, and probably the 

 tomahawk or war club among tribes that 

 used these implements. So far as can be 

 judged by tlie forms, theterm " hatchet" 

 may be applied with equal pro]iriety to 

 both the hafted ax and the hafted celt, 

 as both were wielded usually with one 

 hand and were e(jually effectual in war 

 and in the arts of laeace. So far as colo- 

 nial literature refers to the u.ses of these 

 implements, it would appear that the 

 tomahawk or club, among the eastern 

 tribes, was the weapon of war par excel- 

 lence, while the ax and the celt were em- 

 ployed more especially in domestic work 

 and for otherordinary industrial purposes 

 (McCulloch). Both" the hatchet and the 

 war club doubtless rose on occasion to the 

 dignity of ceremonial objects. 



It is clear, not only from the practice 

 of the living tribes and of primitive peo- 

 ples generally, but from traces of handles 

 remaining on both stone and copper 



^V 



CELT-HATCHET WITH WOODEN HANDLE, FROM A MICHIGAN 

 MOUND. (dodge coll.) 



specimens obtained from the mounds, 

 that the celt was hafte<l after the manner 

 of the hatchet. An interesting group of 

 implements showing that this was the ar- 



