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HUMALIJA HUTSTA 



[b. a. e. 



Humalija. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage near Santa Barbara, Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Fanner, Apr. 24, 1863. 



Humarisa ( from // I'l inatih I, ' to run ' ) . A 

 rancheria of 288 Tarahumare, not far from 

 Norogachic, Chihuahua, Mexico. — Lum- 

 holtz, inf n, 1894. 



Humawhi. A Shastan tribe or subtribe 

 formerly living on the s. fork of Pit r., 

 Modoc CO., Cal. According to Curtin 

 they were a portion of the Ihnawi, living 

 a short distance n. of Hot Spring, Modoc 



CO. 



Hama'wi. — Curtin, llmawi vocab., B. A. E., 1889. 

 Hu-ma'-whi.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., ni, 

 267, 1877. 



Humbo. A New Hampshire word for 

 maple syrup. Horatio Hale sought to 

 bring it into relation with ombigamisigem 

 Chippewa and closely related Algonquian 

 dialects, a term signifying ' he makes the 

 mt^ple syrup boil,' or 'boiled sugar drink,' 

 the chief element being the radical omb, 

 'to boil.' (a. f. c] 



Humboldt Indians. The Paviotso living 

 around Humboldt lake, Nev. — Simpson, 

 Rep. of Explor. Across Utah, 38, 1876. 



Hume. A former tribe of s. Texas, prob- 

 ably Coahuiltecan, the chief of which was 

 encountered in 1675 by Fernando del 

 Bosque 7 leagues beyond the Rio Grande. 

 Jume.— Fernando del Bosque (1675) inNat.Geog. 

 Mag., XIV, 344, 1903. Jumees. Revillagigedo, MS. 

 (1793) quoted by Orozco y Berra, Geog., 306, 1864. 



Humelsom (fFuiiiElsoin). ~ A Squawmish 

 village community on Burrard inlet, Brit. 

 Col.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Brit. A. A. S., 

 475, 1900. 



Humkak (Hum-l-aF). An important 

 Chumashan village formerly near Pt Con- 

 ception, Santa Barbara co., Cal. — Hen- 

 shaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 1884. 



Humor. It has been so commonly the 

 fashion to describe the American Indian 

 as "the stoic of the woods without a 

 tear," that he has generally been denied 

 as well the possession of a sense of humor. 

 That he does not lack such, however, will 

 readily be admitted by any one who has 

 come to know the Indian as he is, has 

 shared his meals and his camp fire, and 

 had the opportunity of enjoying the real 

 wit and humor abounding in common 

 speech and in ancient legend. The pun, 

 the jest of all kinds, the practical joke, 

 the double-entendre, of which he is some- 

 times past-master, are all known to him. 

 Particularly does the awkward action or 

 the mexpert movement of the white man 

 incite him to laughter. Like the white 

 man, he has a fund of wit at the expen,se 

 of the weaker sex and its peculiarities. 

 The Eskimo and the Pueblos especially are 

 merry, laughingpeople, who jestand trifle 

 through all the grades from quiet sar- 

 casm to the loudest joke. This appears 

 in their songs and legends, in which 

 humor and satire are constantly cropping 



out. That the Micmac and closely re- 

 lated Indian tribes of the Algonquian 

 stock in N. E. North America have a keen 

 sense of the humorous and ridiculous any 

 one may convince himself by reading 

 some of the tales in Leland and Prince's 

 Kuloskap (1902), especially the episode of 

 the master and the babe, and the story of 

 the wizard and the Christian priest. The 

 mythic trickster is, in fact, found in every 

 tribe, sometimes as a misshapen person- 

 age, sometimes as a .supernatural coyote, 

 rabbit, or other animal, and the relation 

 of his adventures provokes the greatest 

 mirth. Around their camp fires, and 

 " when the spirit moves them," the Chip- 

 pewa and related tribes can jestand trifle 

 in real fashion. The episodes in many 

 of their tales and legends also prove their 

 possessir)n of witand humor. The Chero- 

 kee sense of humor is proved by their 

 ravths and legends (Mooney in 19th Rep. 

 B." A. E., 1900), and that of the Zuni by 

 the folklore of that tribe (Cushing, Zuni 

 Folk Tales, 1901 ). The Kutenai of Brit- 

 ish Columbia and Idaho are not without 

 the virtues of humor and sarcasm (Cham- 

 berlain, Rep. on N. W. Tribes of Can., 

 70, 1892). Puns and mistakes in pronun- 

 ciation easily set them into fits of laugh- 

 ter. The Pueblos, Iroquois, Apache, some 

 of the Plains tribes, and those of the n. w. 

 Pacific coast had regular clowns or fun- 

 makers at some of their dances and other 

 ceremonies. Some Plains tribes had the 

 custom of marking the spot where 

 any amusing accident occurred while on 

 the march in order that later travelers 

 might inquire and learn the joke. See 

 Amnsenieiils. (a. f. c. ) 



Hnmptulips (said to mean 'chilly re- 

 gion'). A body of Chehalis on a river 

 of the same name emptying into Chehalis 

 r., Wash. They are under the supervi- 

 sion of the Pu\allup school superinten- 

 dent and numbered 21 in 1904. 

 Hamtolops.— Keane in .Stanford, Compend., .o74, 

 1878. Humptulip.— Ind. AfY. Rep., pt. I. 702, 1901. 

 Hump-tu-lups.— Ross in Ind. Aff. Rep., 18, 1870. 

 tTm-too-leaux.— Ford, ibid., 250, 1858. 



Huna. A Tlingit tribe on Cross sd., 

 Alaska, camping in summer northward 

 to and beyond Lituva bav. Pop. 1,300 

 in 1870, 908 in 1880, and 592 in 1 890. For 

 1900 the entire population of Gaudekan, 

 the chief Huna village, was given as 447. 

 Other towns in their country are Akvet- 

 skoe, Hukanuwu, Klughuggue, Kukan- 

 uwu, and Tlushashakian. Their .social 

 divisions are Chukanedi, Koskedi, Tak- 

 dentan, and Wushketan. 

 ChQna-kon.— Krau.se, Tlinkit Ind., 118, 1885. 

 Cross Sound Indians. — Kane, Wand N. A., app., 

 18.59 (traders name). Grass Sound Indians. — 

 Colyer in Ind. Aff. Rep., 535, 1870. Hoonah 

 Kow.— Emmon.s In Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ni, 

 232. 1903. Hoone-ahs.— Seott in Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 314, 1868. Hoone-aks.— Halleck in Rep. Sec. War, 

 pt. I, 39, 1868. Hooniahs — Scidmore, Alaska, 127. 

 1885. Hoonid —Colyer in Ind. AfT. Rep., 635, 

 1870. Hoonyah.— Peirofi in Tenth Census, Alaska, 



