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HATCHEUXHAU HATHAWEKELA 



[B. A. E. 



chaic method of hafting celt-like objects, 

 are the monolithic hatchets in which the 

 blade and the handle are carved of a sin- 

 gle piece of stone. Several specimens of 

 this type are on record; one, found by 



MONOLITHIC HATCHET OF GREENSTONE, FROM A TENNESSEE 

 MOUND. LENGTH 13 1-2 IN. (jONEs) 



Joseph Jones, in Tennessee, is made of 

 greenstone, and is ISh in. in length; 

 another, from a mound in York district, 

 S. C, now in the National Museum, is 

 also of greenstone; the third is from Mis- 

 sissippi CO., Ark., and is owned by Mr 

 Morris of that county (Thruston); the 

 fourth, from a mound in Alabama, and 

 now in possession of INIr C. B. Moore, 



of Philadelphia, is 11 2 

 in. long, of greenstone, 

 and a superb example of native lapi- 

 darian work. Specimens of this class are 

 much more numerous in the Bahamas 

 and the West Indies. As all are carefully 

 finished, some being provided with a 

 perforated knob or projection at the end 

 of the handle for the insertion of a thong, 

 it is jjrobable that they served as maces 

 or for some other ceremonial use. On the 

 Pacific coast the stone war club some- 

 times took the form of a monolithic 

 hatchet (Niblack). 



The combination of the iron hatchet 

 with the tobacco pipe as a single imple- 

 ment, often called the tomahawk pipe, 

 became very general in colonial and later 

 times, and as no counterpart of this de- 

 vice is found in aboriginal art, it was 

 probably devised by the whites as a use- 

 ful and profitable combination of the .sym- 

 bols of peace and war. To "take up 

 the hatchet" was to declare war, and "to 

 bury the hatchet" was to conclude peace. 

 According to some authors the hatchet 

 pipe was a formidable weapon in war, but 

 in the forms known to-day it is too light 

 and fragile to have taken the place of 

 the stone ax or the iron hatchet. It has 

 passed entirely out of the realm of weap- 

 ons. See Axes, Calumet, Celts, Pipes, Tom- 

 ahawks. 



Consult C. C. Jones, Antiq. So. Inds., 

 1873; Jos. Jones, Aboriginal Remains of 

 Tenn., 1876; McCulloch, Researches, 

 1829; McGuire in Rep. Nat. Mus., 1897; 

 Moore, various memoirs in Jour. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1894-1905; Morgan, 

 League of the Iroquois, 1904; Niblack in 

 Rep. Nat. Mus. 1888, 1890; Thruston, 

 Antiq. of Tenn., 1897; Wilson in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. 1896,1898. (w. n. h.) 



Hatcheuzhau. — A former Upper Creek 

 village near the site of La Grange, Troup 

 CO., Ga. — Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E. , 

 Ga. map, 1899. 



Hatchichapa ('half-way creek'). A 

 former branch settlement of the Upper 

 Creek town Kailaidshi, between Coosa 

 and Tallapoosa rs., Ala. Hawkins states 

 that the Creeks hostile to the United 

 States burned it in 1813, but it was prob- 

 ably relniilt as it is mentioned in Parsons' 

 census list of 1832 as having 62 heads of 

 families. 



Halchuchubb.— U. S. Ind. Treat. (1827), 420, 1837. 

 Half-way Creek. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 

 131, 18S1. Hatchchi chubba.— Parsons (1S32) in 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tri))es, iv, 578, 1S54. Hatche- 

 chubba.— Corlev (1835) in H. R. I)oc. 452, 25th 

 Cong., 2d sess., 66, 1S38. Hat-che chub-bau,— 

 Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 49, 1S4S. Hatchechub- 

 •bee.— Creek paper (1836) in H. R. Rep. 37, 31st 

 Cong., 2d sess,, 122. 1851. Hatch ee chub ba.— 

 Abbott (]S32) in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iv, 580, 

 1854. Hatcheechubbas. — Simpson (1836) in H. R. 

 Doc. 80, 27th CXing., 3d sess., 50, 1843. Hatchi 

 tchapa. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., 1, 131, 1884. 



Fatchichapa. A township in the Creek 

 Nation, Ind. T., near North fork of Cana- 

 dian r. 



Hatch Point. A local name for a body 

 of Salish of Cowichan agency, Vancouver 

 id. ; po]). 4 in 1896, the last time reported. 

 Haitch Point.— Can. Ind. Aff. for 1896, 433. Hatch 

 Point.— Ibid. ,1883, 197. 



Hatchukuni ( ' wolf ' ) . A Tonkawa clan. 

 Hatchukuni.— Gatschet, Tonkawe MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1884. 



Hathawekela. A principal division of 

 the Shawnee, the name of which is of 

 uncertain etymolog}'. They emigrated 

 from the S. about 1697, together with 

 other Shawnee bands, and settled with 

 them, partly on Susquehanna and partly 

 on Allegheny r. , Pa., where they are 

 mentioned in 1731. Sewickley, Pa., 

 probably take s its name from them. 

 According to W. H. Shawnee, an edu- 

 cated member of the tribe, the proper 

 form is Ha-tha-we-ke-lah, and they con- 

 stitute one of the original 5 principal 

 divisions of the Shawnee. Together with 

 the Bicowetha (Picpia) and Kispokotha 

 (Kisporocoke) divisions they removed 

 about 1793 to what was then Spanish 

 territory in e. ]\Iissouri, thence into Ar- 

 kansas, and in 1832 into Texas, where 

 with other tribes they settled for a time 

 near Saline r. Being afterward driven 

 out by the new Texas government they 

 removed to the present Oklahoma, where 

 the 3 united bands are now known as 



