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JACUENCACAHEL JATONABINE 



[b. a. e. 



Jacuencacahel. A former rancheria un- 

 der the mission of San Francisco Xavier 

 de Biaundo, in Lower California. — Writer 

 of 1728 in Doc. Hist. Max., 4th s., v, 187, 

 1857. 



Jade. See Xephrite. 



Jagavans. Tiie name of a small tribe 

 formerly on the Texas coast: mentioned 

 by Harris (Coll. Voy., i, 802, 1705) as 

 one of those visited about 1530 by Cabeza 

 de Vaca, as not far from the Chorruco, 

 and as neighbors of the Mariames. Pos- 

 sibly the Yguases of Cabeza de Vaca's 

 Relation (Smith trans., 92, 1S71). 



Jagaya. A former village in a well- 

 watered country 50 leagues from Santa 

 Helena and 20 leagues from the sea, in 

 N. w. South Carolina; visited by Juan 

 Pardo in 1565. — Yandera (1567) in Smith, 

 Colec. Doc. Fla., i, 16, 1857. 



Jakobshavn. A Danish missionary sta- 

 tion and trading post on Disko bay, w. 

 Greenland, established in 1741. Pop. 300 

 in 1867. 



Jacobs-haven. — Crantz, Hist, of Greenlanrl, I, 15, 

 1767. 



Jamac. A former rancheria, probably 

 of the Sobaipuri of s. Arizona, and a vi- 

 sita of the mission of Guevavi in 1732. — 

 Alegre quoted by Bancroft, No. Mex. 

 States, I, 524, 1884. 



Jamaica. A former pueblo of theOpata 

 in N. E. Sonora, Mexico, under the juris- 

 diction of the municipality of Cumpus, 

 in the district of Moctezuma (Orozco y 

 Berra, Geog., 343, 1864). It contained 9 

 civilized inhabitants in 1900. 



Jameco. The supposed name of " a small 

 tril)e or family of Indians subject to some 

 other," thought to have dwelt formerly 

 on Long Island, N. Y., near Jamaica, 

 which derives its name from the band. 

 Jameco, — Thompson, Long Id., 382, 1839. Jemaco, — 

 Flint, Early Long Id., 198, 1896. 



Janemo. See Ninigrel. 



Janos. An extinct tribe which, with 

 the Jocomes, inhabited the region of Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico, between Casas Grandes, 

 Chihuahua, and Fronteras. Bandelier 

 (Nation, July 2, 1885) classes them as 

 the most southerly band of the Apache, 

 called after presidio Janos in n. w. 

 Chihuahua. He believes that the tribe 

 slowly arose after 1684 and was composed 

 of Lipan, INIescalero, and other Apache 

 stragglers, together with renegade Suma, 

 Toboso, Tarahumare, and Opata Indians, 

 and Spanish captives. Missions were 

 established among them at an early date 

 at Janos and Carretas, but were aban- 

 doned on account of the incursions of the 

 Apache proper, with whom the Janos 

 were subsequently merged. Frequent 

 mention is made of the Janos by Jesuit 

 missionaries during the first half of the 

 18th century, but of their language and 

 customs almost nothing is known. 

 Hanes. — Lin.schoten, Descr. de I'Ani.. map 1, 1638. 

 Hanos. — Beaavides, Memorial, 7, 1630. Jamos. — 



Duro, Peiialosa, 63, 1882. Janeros. — Bandelier in 

 N. Y. Nation, July 2, 1885. Janos.— Kino (1690) 

 in Doc. Hist, Mex., 4th s., i, 230, 1856, Yanos.— 

 Mtihlenpfordt, Mejioo, ii, 521, 1844. 



Jantamais. Mentioned by Domenech 

 (Deserts of N. Am., i, 441, 1860) in a list 

 of tribes without further notice. Possibly 

 the Yanktonai; otherwise unknown. 



Japazaws. A Powhatan Indian, chief 

 of Potomac and a friend of the English. 

 In 1611 he inveigled Pocahontas on board 

 an English ship to be detained as a hos- 

 tage for the good behavior of Powhatan, 

 her father.— Drake, Bk. Inds., 357, 1880. 



Jappayon. A former village connected 

 with San Carlos mission, Cal., and said 

 to have been Es.selen. — Tavlor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. 



Japul. Given by the Y''avapai to Fray 

 Francisco Garccs in 1776 (Diary, 405, 

 1900) as the name, seemingly, of a Yuman 

 tribe; locality not recorded, but possibly 

 in the vicinity of the Rio Colorado. 

 Japiel. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 349, 1864 (misprint- 

 ingOarcc's). Japui. — Gare^s,op.cit.,444. Tapiel. — 

 Cortez (1799) in Whipple, Pac. R. R. Rep., in, pt. 3, 

 126, 1856 (misprint). 



Jars. See Dishes, Pottery, Receptacles. 



Jasniga. A former village, presumably 

 Costanoan, connected with San Juan 

 Bautista mission, Cal. — Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, Nov. 25, 1860. 



Jasper. An impure, opaque form of 

 chalcedony displaying various shades of 

 color, the yellow, red, and brown hues 

 predominating. When grayish or green- 

 ish and mottled with red the name blood- 

 stone is sometimes applied. It was much 

 used by the native tribes for flaked im- 

 plements of several varieties, and more 

 rarely for hammers, celts, axes, and orna- 

 ments. It occurs in irregular masses, or 

 pockets, in connection with other forma- 

 tions in many sections of the United 

 States, and was often obtained by the 

 Indians in the f( rm of fugitive pebbles 

 and bowlders; but in Pennsylvania, and 

 perhaps in other states, it was quarried 

 from the original beds. The best known 

 quarries are in Bucks, Lehigh, and Berks 

 COS., E. Pa. Jasper was extensively worked 

 by the ancient inhabitants of Converse 

 and neighboring counties of Wyoming, 

 who found this material as well as the 

 translucent varieties of chalcedony in con- 

 nection with the quartzite of the region. 

 See Chalcedony. 



Consult Dorsey in Field Columb. Mus. 

 Pub., Anthrop. ser., ii, no. 4, 1900; 

 Holmes in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 1897; Mer- 

 cer in Am. Anthrop., vii, 80, 1894. 



(w. H. H.) 



Jatonabine ( 'people of the rocks'). An 

 Assiniboin band living in 1808 in n. w. 

 Manitoba, and having 40 tipis. 

 E-an-to-ah. — Denig quoted bv Dorsey in 15th Rep. 

 B.A.E.,222, 1897 ('Stone Indians': "the original 

 appellation for the whole nation"). Eascab. — 

 Franklin, Narr., 104, 1823. Gens de Roche.— Ibid., 

 306. Gens des Roches. — Havdeii, Ethnog. and 

 Philol. Mo. Val., 387, 1862. Gens des rosches.— Ind. 



