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pewa of the Sault, who were distinguished 

 by the name Pahouitigoufhirini. The 

 Marumeg are mentioned under the name 

 Mahimechs in the Proces-verbal of the 

 Prise de Possession in 1671 as jtresent at 

 the conference on that occasion. Accord- 

 ing to Shea they are mentioned in the M8. 

 Jesuit Relation of 1672-73 as being near 

 the Mascoutin, who were then on Fox 

 r., Wis. If, as supposed, tlie people of 

 this tribe are those referred to by La 

 Chesnaye (Margry, vi, 6) under the name 

 "Malaiias ou gens de la Barbue," they 

 must have resided in 1697, in part at least, 

 at Shaugawaumikong (the present Bay- 

 field, Wis.), on the s. shore of L. Su- 

 perior. The attempt to identify them 

 with the "Miamis of Maramek" men- 

 tioned in a document of 1695 (N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., IX, 619) as residing on Mara- 

 mec (Kalamazoo) r., in Michigan, is cer- 

 tainly erroneous, (j. M. c. T. ) 

 Gens de la Barbue.— La Chesnaj-e ( 1697) in Mar- 

 gry, Die., VI, 6, 1886. Malamechs.— I'rise de Pos- 

 session (1671), ibid., i, 97, 1S75. Malanas. — La 

 Chesnave, op. cit. Marameg. — Jes. Rel. 1669-70, 

 Thwaites ed., liv, 133, 1899. 



Maramoydos. A former Diegueno ran- 

 cheria near San Diego, s. Cal. — Ortega 

 (1775) quoted by Bancroft, Hist. Cal., i, 

 254, 1884. 



Maraton. A Chowanoc village in 1585 

 on the E. bank of Chowan r., in Chowan 



CO., N. C. 



Maraton.— Smith (1629), Va., 1, map, repr. 1819. 

 Mavaton.— Martin, N. C.,l, 13,1829. Waratan.— 

 Dutch map (1621) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 1,1856. 



Marble. The various forms of the car- 

 bonates of lime and magnesia, classed as 

 marbles, were used to some extent by 

 the Indian tribes for carvings, utensils, 

 and ornaments. They include many va- 

 rieties of ordinary marbles such as are 

 used for building, as well as the cave 

 forms known as stalactite, deposited as 

 pendent masses by dripping water, and 

 stalagmite, which is deposited by the 

 same agency upon the floor. Travertine 

 formed l)y rivers and springs is of nearly 

 identical character. These deposits fre- 

 quently present handsome translucent and 

 banded effects. The purer, less highly 

 colored varieties are sometimes called 

 alabaster (see Gj/psum), and thecomj>act, 

 beautifully marked forms are known as 

 onyx. See Mines and Quarries. 



(w. H. H.) 



Maria. A Micmac settlement in Maria 

 township, Bonaventure co., Quebec, con- 

 taining 80 Indians in 1884, 93 in 1904. 



Mariames. A tribe mentioned by Ca- 

 beza de Vaca as living, in 1528-34, "be- 

 hind" the Quevenes, probably in the 

 vicinity of Matagorda bay, Texas. The 

 people subsisted mainly on roots and 

 seem never to have enjoyed plenty ex- 

 cept in the season of the prickly pears. 

 They ground the bones of fish, mixed 

 the dust with water, and used the paste 



as food. They are said to have killed 

 their female infants to prevent their fall- 

 ing into the hands of their enemies, and 

 also, because of their continued warfare, 

 to avoid the temptation of marrying 

 within their tribe. The region where 

 the Mariames lived was within the later 

 domain of the Karankawan tribes, which 

 are now extinct (see Gatschet, Karan- 

 kawa Inds., 46, 1891). Manzanet (1670) 

 mentions a tribe called the IMuruam, 

 jirobably identical with this, and Orozco 

 y Berra"(Geog., 303, 1864) mentions the 

 Mahuamesasa former tribe of N.E.Mexico 

 ors. Texas, which was gathered into the 

 mission of San Juan Bautista, Coahuila, 

 in 1699. These also may be identical. 



(A. C. F.) 

 Mahuames.— Orozco y Berra, op. cit. (identical?). 

 Mariames.— Cabeza de Vaca (1542), Bandelier 

 trans., 82, 1905. Marianes.— Cabeza de Vaca, Narr., 

 Smith trans., .58, 1851. Marians. — Harris, Voy. and 

 Trav., I, 802, 1705. Mariarves.— Cabeza de Vaca, 

 Narr., Smith trans., 93, ls71. Muruam.— Manzanet 

 (1690), MS., cited by H. E. Bolton, iiif'n, 1906 (.iden- 

 tical?). 



Marian. The Christian Hurons, so 

 called by their pagan l)rethren on account 

 of their frequent repetition of the name 

 of Mary.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 183, 1855. 



Maricopa. An important Yuman tril)e 

 which since early in the 19th century has 

 lived with and below the Pima and 

 from about lat. 35° to the mouth of Rio 



MARICOPA KA 



Gila, s. Ariz. In 1775, according to Gar- 

 ces, their rancherias extended about 40 

 m. along the Gila from about the mouth 

 of the Hassayampa to the Aguas Cali- 

 entes, although Garces adds that "some 

 of them are found farther downriver." 

 They call themselves Pipatsje, 'people,' 



