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MAERISKINTOM MASCOUTENS 



[b. a. e. 



chase is not common. The marriage bond 

 is loose, and may, with few exceptions, 

 be dissolved by the wife as well as by the 

 husband. The children generally stay 

 with their mother, and always do in triljes 

 having maternal clans. See Adoption, 

 Captlre.% Child life, Clan and Gens, Gov- 

 ernment, Kinslii]), Women. 



Consult Crantz, History of Greenland, 

 1767; Boas, Central Eskimo, bS88; Nel- 

 son, Eskimo a1)out Bering Strait, 1899; 

 Krause, Tlinkit-Indianer, 1885; Boas, 

 Reps, on N. W. Tribes of Can. to Brit. 

 A. A. S., 1889-98; Powers, Tribes of Cali- 

 fornia, 1877; J. O. Dorsey, (1) Omaha 

 Sociology, 1884; (2) Siouan Sociology, 

 1897; Farrand, Basis of American His- 

 tory, 1904; Goddard in Univ. Cal. Pub., 

 Am. Archpeol. and Ethnol., i, no. 1, 

 1903; Mooney, Calendar Hist. Kiowa, 

 1900; Grinneli, (1) Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 

 1892, (2) Pawnee Hero Stories, 1889; 

 Gushing, Adventures in Zufii, Century 

 Mag., 1883; Powell, Wyandot Govern- 

 ment, 1881; Morgan, League of the Iro- 

 quois, 1851; Heckewelder, Hist. Man- 

 ners and Customs Indian Nations, 1876; 

 Voth in Am. Anthrop., ii, no. 2, 1900; 

 Owen, Musquakie Folk-lore, 1904; Dixon 

 in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xvii, pt. 3, 

 1905; Kroeber in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XVIII, pt. 1, 1902; Holm, Descr. 

 New Sweden, 1834. (r. n. l. l. f.) 



Marriskintom. A village marked on 

 Esnauts and Kapilly's map of 1777 on the 

 E. side of lower Scioto r. in Ohio. It 

 may have belonged to the Shawnee or to 

 the Delawares, and is distinct from Mus- 

 kingum, (j- M. ) 



Martha's Vineyard Indians. Martha's 

 Vineyard id., off the s. coast of .Massachu- 

 setts, was called l>y the Indians Nope, 

 or Capawac. These may have ))een the 

 names of tribes on the island and the 

 smaller islands adjacent. The Indians 

 thereon were subject to the Wampanoag 

 and were very numerous at tlie period of 

 the first settlement, l)ut their dialect dif- 

 fered from those on the mainland. They 

 seem not to have suffered by the great 

 pestilence of 1617. In 1642 they were 

 estimated at 1,500. The Mayhews car- 

 ried on a('tive missionary work among 

 them and succeeded in bringing nearly 

 all of them under church regulations and 

 secured their friendship in King Philip's 

 . war. In 1698 they were reduced to 

 about 1,000, in 7 villages: Nashanekam- 

 muck, Ohkonkemme, Seconchqut, Gay 

 Head, Sanchecantacket or Edgartown, 

 Nunnepoag, and Chaubaqueduck. In 

 1764 there were only 313 remaining, and 

 about this time they began to inter- 

 marry with negroes, and the mixed race 

 increased so that in 1807 there were about 

 360, of whom only about 40 were of pvire 

 blood. At that time they lived in 5 vil- 



lages on or near the main island, the 

 majority being at Gay Head. Soon 

 thereafter they ceased to have any sepa- 

 rate enumeration as Indians. (j. m. ) 

 Vineyard Indians.— Aldfii (1797) in Mass. Hist. 

 Sof. Coll., Ists., V, 06, liSlO. 



Martinez. A small village on Torres 

 res., under the Mission agency, s. Cal. — 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 170, 1904. 



Martoughquaunk. A village of the Pow- 

 hatan confederacy, in 1608, on Matta- 

 pony r., in Caroline co., Va. — Smith 

 (1629), Virginia, I, map, repr. 1819. 



Marychkenwikingh (from Men'achkha- 

 nn.h--inl-, ' at his fenced or fortified house,' 

 referring, no doubt, to its being the resi- 

 dence of the sachems. — Tooker) . A vil- 

 lage formerly on the site of Red Hook, 

 in what is now the twelfth ward of Brook- 

 lyn, Long Island, N. Y., in Canarsee 



territorv. 



Mareehhawieck.— Treaty of ICAb in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist ,xin, IS, IsSl. Marechkawick. — Doc. of 1643 

 qnoted hv Tooker, AlRonq. Sen, ii, 10, 1901. 

 Marechkawieck.— lior. of l(il4 in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., XIV, 5f>, 1S83. Marychkenwikingh.— Deedof 

 1637, ibid., 5. Merechkawick. — Doc. of 1645 cited 

 by Tooker, op. cit. Merrakwick. — Doc. of 1648 

 cited by Tooker, ibid. 



Marysiche. A small Opata settlement 

 in Sonora, Mexico. — LIrdlicka in Am. 

 Anthrop., vi, 72, 1904. 



Masacauvi. A small Opata settlement 

 in Sonora, Mexico. — Hrdlicka in Am. 

 Anthro].., vi, 72, 1904. 



Masac's Village. A former Potawatomi 

 village on the w. bank of Tippecanoe r., 

 in the n. e. part of Fulton co., Ind., on a 

 reservation sold in 1836. The name is 

 also written Mosack. (j. m.) 



Masamacush. A name of Hood's 

 salmon (Salmo lioodii), found in the 

 fresh- water lakes of the Atlantic slope of 

 Canada (Rep. U. S. Com. Fish., 1872-73, 

 p. 159) : from mammegos or masamekus, 

 a name of the salmon-trout in the Chip- 

 pewa and Cree dialects of Algonquian. 

 The word signifies, 'like a trout,' from 

 naiiu'kiis, 'trout,' and the prefix ?««s-, 

 which has somewhat the force of the 

 English suffix -iftJt. (a. f. c.) 



Mascalonge. See 3faskinonge. 



Maschal. A Chumashan village given in 

 Cabrillo's Narrative as on San Lucas id., 

 Cal., in 1542; locate<l on Santa Cruz id. 

 by Taylor in 1863 and by San Buenaven- 

 tura Indians in 1884. 



Maschal.— Tavlor in ('al. Farmer, Apr. 24, 1863. 

 Mas-teal.— Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. vocab., 

 B A. E.,1S84. Maxul,— Cabrillo, Narr. (1542), in 

 Smith, Colec. Doc. Fla., 181, 1S57. 



Mascoming. A Weapomeioc village, in 

 1585, on the north shore of Albemarle sd., 

 in Chowan co., N. C, adjoining the ter- 

 ritorv of the Chowanoc. (.i. m. ) 

 Mascoming.— Smith (1629). Virginia, i, map, repr. 

 1819. Muscamunge.— Lane (15S6), ihiA., I, 87. 



Mascoutens ( ' little prairie people,' from 

 mnskuta (Fox) or mashcode (Chippewa), 

 ' prairie ' ; ens, diminutiveending. By the 

 Hurons they were called Assistaeronon, 



