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MASSI MATANAKONS 



[b. a. e. 



came in over the ground now occupied 

 by houses, but the latter were then situ- 

 ated on higher ground just back of the 

 present site. At that time, too, there was 

 an independent town around a hill called 

 Edjao C^I^djao), which stands at the east- 

 ern end. Until lately the band holding 

 possession was the Skidaokao. Accord- 

 ing to John Work's estimate, made be- 

 tween 1836 and 1841, there were 160 

 houses and 2,473 people at Masset, but 

 this enumeration must have included all 

 the neighboring towns, and probably num- 

 bered the smokehouses. The number of 

 houses, enumerated by old people, in the 

 two towns, Masset proper and Edjao ( 27 

 and 6 respectively) would indicate a total 

 population of about 528, 432 in the former 

 and 96 in the latter. Adding to these 

 figures the estimated numbers in the two 

 neighboring towns of Yan and Kayung, 

 the grand total would be 1,056, or less 

 than half of Work's figure. It is prob- 

 able, however, that the population had 

 decreased between Work's time and that 

 which the old men now recall. Accord- 

 ing to the Canadian Report of Indian 

 Affairs for 1904 there were 356 people at 

 Masset; these include the remnant of all 

 the families that lived once between 

 Chawagis r. and Ilippa id. A few people 

 have moved to the neighboring town 

 of Kayung. A mission of the Anglican 

 Church is maintained at Masset, the oldest 

 on the Queen Charlotte ids., and all the 

 Indians are nominal Christians. 



(j. R. S.) 

 sAte'was.— Swanton, Cont. Haida, 281, 1905 (na- 

 tive name). G'at'aiwa's. — Boas, Twelfth Report 

 N. W. Tribes Canada, 23, 1898. Gatgaxiwas.— Ibid. 

 (Skidegate dialect). Maasets. — Scouler (lS4ti) in 

 Jour. Ethnol. Soc. Loud., l, 233, 1848. Masseets.— 

 Scouler in Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc, xi, 219, isii. 

 Massets.— Dunn, Hist. Oregon, 281, 1844. Mas- 

 sett.— Can. Ind. Aff.l904,pt.2,69,1905. Massetta.— 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 489, 18r>5 (after 

 Work, 1836-41). Massettes.— Scoulerin Jour. Roy. 

 Geog. Soc, XI, 219, 1841. Mass hade,— Krause, 

 Tlinkit Indianer, 304, 1885. Mossette. — Kane, 

 Wand, in N. Am., app., 18.59 (after Work, 1836-41). 

 TJt-te-was.— Dawson, Q. Charlotte Ids., 183, 1880. 



Massi. A former town on the e. bank 

 of Tallapoosa r., Ala. (Bartram, Voy, i, 

 map, 1 799 ) . Not identified, but probably 

 Creek. 



Massikwayo. The Chicken-hawk clan 

 of the Pakab (Reed) phratry of the Hopi. 

 Mas-si' kwa'-yo. — Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 39, 

 1891. 



Massinacac. A tribe of the Monacan 

 confederacy, formerly living in Cumber- 

 land and Buckingham cos. , Va. Strachey 

 speaks of their village as the farthest 

 town of the Monacan. 



Massinacack. — Smith (1629), Virginia, I, map,repr. 

 1819. Massinacacs. — Jefferson, Notes, 179, 1801. 

 Massinnacac"ks.— Strachey (1012), Va., 102, 1849. 



Massomuck. An Indian location in 

 1700, mentioned as if near the Waba- 

 quasset country, in s. Massachusetts 

 (Doc. of 1700 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., iv, 

 615, 1854). Probably identical with Ma- 



shamoquet ( Massamugget, Mashamugget, 

 Mashamugket, Machi-mucket, Moshamo- 

 quett), given by Trumbull (Ind. Names 

 Conn., 25, 1881) as the name of a tract 

 and a small tributary of Quinebaug r. at 

 Pomfret, n. e. Conn., and rendered by 

 him 'at the great fishing place.' 



Mastohpatakiks ( Ma-ntoJi' -pa-ta-laJ:s, 'ra- 

 ven bearers') . A society of the Ikunuh- 

 kahtsi, or All Comrades, in the Piegan 

 tribe of the Siksika. — Grinnell, Blackfoot 

 Lodge Tales, 221, 1892. 



Masut. A former northern Pomo village 

 on Forsythe cr., one of the headwaters of 

 Russian r., about 3 m. n. w. of the present 

 Calpella, Mendocino co., Cal. (s. a. b. ) 

 Masu-ta-kaya.— Gibbs (1851) in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, ni, 112, 1853. Ma-su-ta-kea.— Ibid. 



Mata. A former rancheria, probably of 

 the Soba, n. of Caborca, which is on the 

 Rio de la Asuncion, between Quitobac 

 and Aribaiba, n. w. Sonora, Mexico. The 

 place M^as visited by Anza and Font in 

 1776. 



Santa Maita.— Hardy, Travels, 422, 1829 (.same?). 

 S. Juan de Mata. — Anza and Font (1776) quoted hy 

 Bancroft, Ariz, and N. M., 393, 1889. 



Matachic. A Tarahumare settlement 

 on the headwaters of the Rio Yaqui, lat. 

 28° 45^ Ion. 107° 30', w. Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. — Orozco y Berra, Geog., 323, 

 1864. 



Mataguay. A former Diegueiio ran- 

 cheria on upper San Luis Rey r., San 

 Diego CO., Cal.; later on Agua Caliente 

 No. 1 res., occupied by Warner's ranch. 

 By decision of the U. S. Supreme Court 

 the Indians were dispossessed of their 

 lands, and by act of May 27, 1902, an addi- 

 tional tract was purchased at Pala, and 

 the Mataguay j^eople, who numbered 11 

 in 1903, were removed thereto in that 

 year. 



Mataguay. — Jack.son and Kinnev, Rep. Miss. Ind., 

 24, 18S3. Matahuay.— Hayes (1850) cited bv Ban- 

 croft, Nat. Rac, l, 4.'i8, 1882. Matajuiai,— H. R. Ex. 

 Doc. 76, 34 Cong., 3dsess., 133, 1857. Mootaeyuhew. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Parmer, May 11, 1860. 



Mataitaikeok ( Ma-tal-tai-ke-61:, ' many 

 eagles'). A former Cree band, named 

 from their chief, who was known to the 

 French as Le Sonnant. In 1856 they 

 roamed and hunted in the country along 

 the "Montagues des Bois," and traded 

 with the fur companies on Red r. of the 

 North and on the Missouri near the 

 mouth of the Yellowstone. They num- 

 bered about 300 lodges. — Havden, 

 Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Val., 237,'l862. 



Matamo. A Diegueno rancheria near 

 San Diego, s. Cal.; probably the same as 

 Matmork la Puerta, represented in the 

 treaty of 1852 at Santa Isabel. 

 Matamo.— Ortega (1775) cited bv Bancroft, Hist. 

 Cal. I, 253, 1884. Matmork la Puerta,— H. R. Ex. 

 Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d .sess., 132, 18.57. 



Matanakons. Mentioned by De Laet 

 about 1683 (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., 

 I, 303, 1841 ) as a Delaware tribe formerly 

 in New Jersey. The name may have some 



