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HOMHO ABIT HONANI 



[b. a. e. 



in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 37, 1892; Hew- 

 ett in Bull. 32, B. A. E., 39, 1906. 



Homhoabit. Given by Rev. J. Caballeria 

 (Hist. San Bernardino Val., 1902) as a 

 former village, probably of the Serranos, 

 at a place now called Homoa, near San 

 Bernardino, s. Cal. 



Hominy. From the Algonquian dia- 

 lects of New England or Virginia, applied 

 to a dish prepared from Indian corn 

 pounded or cracked and boiled, or the 

 kernels merely hulled by steeping first 

 in lye or ashes and afterward boiled, with 

 or without fish or meat to season it. The 

 first mention of the name in print occurs 

 in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, 43, 

 1630. Some forms of the name given by 

 early writers are tackhummin, 'to grind 

 corn (or grain) ,' and pokhommin, ' to beat 

 or thresh out.' Josselyn (N. E. Ear., 53, 

 1672) defined hominy as what was left 

 after the flour had been sifted out of 

 cornmeal. Beverley (Virginia, bk. 3, 

 1722) says that hornomj is "Indian corn, 

 broken in a mortar, husked, and then 

 boiled in water over a gentle fire for ten 

 or more hours to the consistency of furm- 

 ity." The name "hominy grits" is 

 sometimes applied to the cracked variety. 

 Tooker suggests as the radicals ahdm, 'he 

 beats or pounds'; min, 'berry or fruit,' 

 'grain.' The name may be a reduction 

 of some of the words in which it occurs, 

 as rockohominy. Dr Wm. Jones (inf'n, 

 1906) says: "It is plain that the form of 

 the word hominy is but an abbreviation, 

 for what is left is the designative suffix 

 -mui, 'grain,' and part of a preceding 

 modifying stem." For a discussion of 

 the etymology see Gerard in Am. An- 

 throp., VI, 314, 1904; vii, 226, 1905; 

 Tooker, ibid., vi, 682. See Samp. 



(a. f. c. j. n. b. h. ) 



Homna (Ho-mna, 'smelling like fish'). 

 A division of the Brule Teton Sioux. — 

 Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 218, 1897. 



Homnipa. Given as a Karok village on 

 Klamath r., n. w. Cal., inhabited in 1860. 

 Home-nip-pah. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Mar. 23, 

 1860. 



Homolobi {Hd-moV-6bi, 'place of the 

 breaBt-like elevation'). A group of ru- 

 ined pueblos near Winslow, Ariz., which 

 were occupied by the ancestors of various 

 Hopi clans. See Fewkes in 22d Rep. B. 

 A. E., 23, et seq., 1904; Mindeleff in 8th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 29, 1891. 



Homolua. A former Timucua village, 

 situated, according to Laudonniere, on 

 the s. side of St Johns r., Fla., at its 

 mouth, in 1564. De Gourgues placed a 

 town of similar name about 60 leagues 

 inland on the same river. 

 Emola. — Laudonniere (1564) in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., n. s., 306, 1869. Homoloa.— Ibid., 331. Homo- 

 loua. — De Bry, Brev. Naf., map, 1590. Molloua. — 

 Laudonniere, op. cit., 242. Holoa. — Foiitaiieda 

 (1.575), ibid., 2d s., 264, 1875. Molona.— Laudon- 

 niere, op. cit, 245. Monloua.— Gourges, ibid., 2d 

 s., 276, 1875. Omoloa.— Laudonniere, op. cit., 253. 



Homosassa ( ' abundance of pepper ' ) . A 

 Seminole town in Hernando co., Fla., in 

 1837. There are now a river and a town 

 of the same name in that locality. 

 Homa Susa. — Drake, Ind. Chron., 215, 1836. 



Homuarup. A former Karok village on 

 Klamath r., Cal. 



Home-war-roop. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, Mar. 23, 

 1860. 



Homulcliison. A Squawmish village 

 community at Capilano cr., Burrard inlet, 

 Brit. Col. ; the former headquarters of the 

 supreme chief of the tribe. Pop. 45 in 

 1904. 



Capalino.— Can. Ind. Aff., 276, 1894. Capitano 

 Creek.— Can. Ind. Aff., 308, 1879. Homu'ltcison.— 

 Hill-Tout In Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 475, 1900. Kapi- 

 lano.— Can. Ind. Aff., 357, 1897. 



Honabanou. Coxe (Carolana, 14, 1741) 

 says that "fifteen leagues above the Ho- 

 hio ... to the w. is the river Hona- 

 banou, upon which dwells a nation of the 

 same name, and another called Amicoa." 

 On the map accompanying his work this 

 river is represented as in s. e. Missouri, 

 entering the Mississippi immediately 

 above or nearly opposite the mouth of 

 the Ohio. As there is no stream on the 

 w. side between the mouth of the Ohio 

 and St Genevieve co. that can be called 

 a river, and no Indians of the names 

 mentioned are known to have resided in 

 that section, both must be rejected as un- 

 authentic, and indeed mythical so far as 

 the locality is concerned. This river has 

 evidently been laid down from Henne- 

 pin's map of 1697, relating to the "New 

 Discovery," which is admitted to be un- 

 authentic so far as it relates to the region 

 s. of the mouth of Illinois r. It is evident, 

 however, that Coxe has attempted to give 

 the name Ouabano (q. v. ), which La Salle 

 applied to some Indians who visited Ft St 

 Louis, on Matagorda bay, Texas, from a 

 westerly section. (j. m. c. t. ) 



Honani. The Badger phratry of the 

 Hopi, comprising the Honani (Badger), 

 Muinyan ( Porcupine) , Wishoko (Turkey- 

 buzzard), Bull ( Butterfly ),Buliso (Even- 

 ing Primrose), and Kachina (Sacred Dan- 

 cer) clans. According to Fewkes this 

 people settled at Kishyuba, a spring 

 sacred to the Kachinas, before going to 

 Tusayan. The Honani and Kachina 

 phratries are intimately associated. The 

 former settled Walpi when the village 

 was on the old site, and some of them 

 wentonto Awatobi, whence they returned 

 after the fall of that pueblo. The arrival 

 of the Honani in Tusayan was probably 

 not earlier than the latter part of the 17th 

 century. 



Ho-na-ni-njru-mu. — Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vii, 

 405, 1894 (7i,(/it-niM=' phratry'). 



Honani. The Badger clan of the Hopi. 

 Honani. — Bourke, Snake Dance, 117, 1884. Honani 

 wiriwu.— Fewkes in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 584, 1900 

 (wmM'M='clan'). Ho-na'-ni wiin-wu. — Fewkes in 

 Am. Anthrop., VII, 405, 1894. Hon'-wiin-wu.— Ibid., 

 404. 



