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HOBOMOKO HOG CREEK 



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Hobomoko. Whittier, in the notes to 

 his Poems (464, 1891) cites the saying 

 concerning John Bonython: 



Here lies Bonython, the Sagamore of Saco, 



He lived a rogue and died a knave, and went 

 to Hobomoko. 

 Mentioned by early writers as an evil 

 deity of the Massachnset and closely re- 

 lated Algonquian tribes. (a. f. c. ) 



Hoccanum. jNIentioned as a band for- 

 merly in East Hartford township, Hart- 

 ford CO., Conn., where they remained, 

 according to Stiles, until about 1745. 

 Thej' were probably identical with or a 

 part of the Podunk (q. v.). De Forest 

 locates the Podunk here, but does not 

 mention the Hoccanum. 

 Hoccanums.— stiles (1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 1st s., X, 105, 1809. Hockanoanco.— Mason (1659), 

 ibid., 4th s., vii, 423, 1865 (perhaps the name of 

 the village). 



Hochelaga (dialectic form of Hochelayi, 

 *at the place of the [bea^fer] dam'). A 

 former Iroquoian town, strongly palisad- 

 ed, situated in 1535 on Montreal id., Can- 

 ada, about a mile from the mountain first 

 called "Mont Royal" by Cartier. At 

 that time it contained about 50 typical 

 Iroquoian lodges, each 50 or more paces 

 in length and 12 or 15 in breadth, built 

 of wood and covered with very broad 

 strips of bark, neatly and deftly joined. 

 Estimating 12 fires and 24 firesides, each 

 of three persons, to every lodge, the total 

 population would have been about 3,600. 

 The upper portion of the lodges was 

 used for storing corn, beans, and dried 

 fruits. The inhabitants pounded corn 

 in wooden mortars with pestles and 

 made a paste of the meal, which was 

 molded into cakes that were cooked 

 on large hot rocks and covered with hot 

 pebbles. They also made many soups of 

 corn, beans, and peas, of which they had 

 a sufficiency. In the lodges were large 

 vessels in which smoked fish was stored 

 for winter use. They were not travelers 

 like those of " Canada" and "Saguenay," 

 although, according to Cartier, "the said 

 Canadians are subject to them with 8 or 

 9 other peoples along the river." 



(j. N. B. n.) 

 Hochelaga.— Cartier (1545), Bref R^cit, 9, 1863. 

 Hochelagenses. — De Laet (1633) quoted by Barton, 

 New Views, xlii, 1798 (Latin name of the inhabi- 

 tants). Ochelaga. — Map (ca. 1.543) in Maine Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., I, 354, 1869; Jes. Rel. 1642, 36, 1858. 



Hochelayi ( ' at the place of the [beaver] 

 dam'). A former Iroquoian town, situ- 

 ated in 1535 in a flat country not far from 

 the junction of Jacques Cartier r. with 

 the St Lawrence, and probably near the 

 present Pt Platon, Quebec. ( j. n. b. h. ) 



Achelaci.— Cartier (1535), Bref Recit, 56a, 1863. 

 Achelacy, — Ibid. Achelaiy. — Ibid. Achelayy. — 

 Ibid. Hochelai.— Cartier (1.535) quoted by Hak- 

 luyt, Voy., II, 115, 1889. Hochelay.— Ibid., 129. 

 Ochelay.— Cartier, Bref RiJcit, op. eit. 



Hochonchapa ('alligator'). A Chicka- 

 saw clan of the Ishpanee phratry. 

 Ho-chon-chab-ba.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 163, 1877. 



Hotchon tchapa. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 96, 



1884. 



Hockhocken ('place of gourds.' — Hew- 

 itt). A former Delaware village on Hock- 

 ing r., Ohio. 



Hackhocken. — La Tour, map, 1779. Hockhocken.— 

 Ibid., 1782. Hockhocken.— Lattr(S, map, 1784. 

 Mockhoeken. — Esnauts and Rapilly, map, 1777 

 (misprint). 



Hoes and Spades. Agricultural imple- 

 ments in general are referred to under 

 Agriculture (q. v.) , special mention being 

 here made of certain numerous, large, 

 bladelike, chipped implements of flint 

 found in the rich alluvial bottom lands 

 of the middle -Mississippi valley, whose 

 polished surfaces in many cases unmis- 

 takably indicate long-continued use in 

 digging operations; and this, in connec- 

 tion with their suggestive shape, has 

 caused them to be classified as hoes and 

 spades. Extensive quarries of the flint 

 nodules from which implements of this 

 class were shaped, have been located in 

 Union co., 111. (see Quarries). Great 

 numbers of the hoes and spades, origi- 

 nating in these or in similar quarries, are 

 distributed over an extensive area in 

 Missouri, Illinois, and the neighboring 

 states. The most common form has an 

 oval, or elliptical outline, with ends 

 either rounded or somewhat pointed; a 

 modified form has the lower end strongly 

 curved, with the sides in straight or 

 slightly concave lines and the same 

 pointed top. Beginning with the ex- 

 tremes of this type, it is possible to ar- 

 range a series which will pass by insen- 

 sible gradations into small scrapers and 

 scraper-like celts. Another type, not un- 

 usual, has a semi-elliptical blade with a 

 square or flat top, in the sides of which 

 deep notches are cut for securing the 

 handle. An allied form is without the 

 notches but has projecting points at the 

 top, which answer the same purpose. 

 The larger implements of this class, often 

 reaching a foot in length, are generally 

 denominated spades, and the shorter, or 

 notched, forms hoes; but as both had the 

 handles put on either parallel with the 

 longer axis or at an angle with it, allow- 

 ing all alike to be used in the same man- 

 ner, the distinction is without particular 

 significance. 



Consult Fowke in 13th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1896; Moorehead, Prehist. Implements, 

 1900; Rau, Archfeol. Coll. Nat. Mus., 1876; 

 Thruston, Antiquities of Tenn., 1897; 

 Willoughby in Am, Anthrop., viii, 130, 

 1906. (g. f. w. h. h. ) 



Hog. See Quahog. 



Hogan. A Navaho house; adapted 

 from qoghdn (Mindeleff in 17th Rep. B. 

 A. E., 475, 1898), in the Navaho dialect 

 of the Athapascan stock. See Habitations. 



Hog Creek. A former Shawnee settle- 

 ment on a branch of Ottawa r., in Allen 



