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MAYl — MAYO 



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Karankawa country. In 1779 the Spanish 

 government feared an alhance of Mayeye, 

 Coco, Karankawa, and Arkokisa (Croix 

 to Cabello, Dec. 4, MS.). The Mayeye 

 were inchided in the census of 1790, and 

 were in the juriydiction of Nacogdoches. 

 Sibley, in 1805, says the "]\Iayes" were 

 then living on San Gabriel cr., near the 

 mouth of the Guadalupe, on St Bernard 

 bay, Tex., and numbered about 200 men; 

 they were hostile to the Spaniards, but 

 professed friendship for the French; 

 they were surrounded by tribes speak- 

 ing languages different from their own 

 and were adept in the sign language. 

 The last trace of the tribe was found by 

 Gatschet in 1884 (Karankawa Inds., Sfi, 

 1891), when he met an old Indian who 

 had known this people in his early days 

 on the Texas coast, and who stated that 

 they spoke a dialect of the Tonkawa. 



(a. c. f. h. e. b. ) 

 Macheyes. — Mezieres (1772) quoted by Bimilla in 

 Tex. Hist. Ass'n Quar., vni, 66, 1905". Maghai.— 

 Joutel (1687) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 1, 137, ls4(;. 

 Maheyes,— Mezieres ( 1772), op. cit. Maieces.— ( Jro- 

 bio y Basterra (1738), op. cit. Maieyes.— Span. 

 Doc, Mar. 6, 1768, in Bexar archives. Malleyes. — 

 Rivera, Diario, leg. 2602, 1736. Mayeces.— Barrios, 

 Informe, MS., 1771. Mayees.— Brackenridge, 

 Views La. ,87, 1814. Mayes.— tiibley. Hist.. Sketches, 

 72, 1806. Mayeyes.— Census of 1790 quoted by 

 Gatschet, Karan- 

 kawa Inds., 35, 1S91. 

 m e g h a y . — .lo u t c 1 

 cited by Shea, note 

 in Charlevoix, New 

 France, IV, 78, 1870. 

 Me gh ey . — .lout el 

 (1687) in Margrv. 

 Dec, III, 288, 1878. 

 M e gh ty . — Joutel 

 (1687) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., 1, 1.52, 

 1846. Meihites.— 

 Barcia, Ensayo, 271, 

 1723. Meye.— Gat- 

 schet, op. cit., 36,1891 

 (Tonkawa name). 

 Miyi.— Ibid. Mule- 

 yes. — Morfl, Mem. 

 Hist. Tex., ca. 1782. 



Mayi. An im- 

 portant Pomo vil- 

 lage on upper 

 Clear lake, Cal. — 

 A. L. Kroeber, 

 Univ. Cal. MS., 

 1903. 



Mayndeshkish ('Coyote pass'). An 

 Apache clan or band at San Carlos agency 

 and Ft Apache, Ariz., in 1881 ( Bourke in 

 Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 112, 1890). The 

 corresponding clan of the Navaho isMai- 

 theshkizh. 



Mayne Island. The local name for a 

 body of Sanetch on the s. e. coast of Van- 

 couver id ; pop. 28 in 1904. — Can. Ind. 

 Aff. for 1902 and 1904. 



Mayo ('terminus', because the Mayo 

 r. was the dividing line between them 

 and their enemies. — Ribas). One of the 

 principal tribes of the Cahita group of 

 the Piman stock, residing on the Eio 



Mayo, Sinaloa, Mexico. Their language 

 differs only dialectically from that of the 

 Yaqui and the Tehueco. The first notice 

 of the tribe is probably that in the "Se- 



o MEN. (am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) 



gunda Relacion Anonima" of the jour- 

 ney of Nuno de Guzman, alxmt 1530 (in 

 Icazbalceta, Coleccion de Documentos, 

 IT, 300, 1866), where it is stated that 

 after passing over 

 the Rio de Tam- 

 achola (Fuerte) 

 and traveling .30 

 leagues (north- 

 ward) they came 

 to a river called 

 ]\Iayo on which 

 lived a people of 

 the same name. 

 Ril)as(i). 237) de- 

 clares that in his 

 day it was the 

 most populous of 

 all the tribes of 

 Sinaloa, estimat- 

 ing their number 

 at 30,000, some 

 8,000 or 10, 000 of 

 whom were war- 

 riors. He did not 

 consider them so 

 warlike as the surrounding tribes, but 

 in their customs, dwellings, and other 

 respects tlie Mavo resembled them. 

 Hardy (Travels in Mexico, 424, 1829) 

 states that at the time of his visit there 

 were 10 towns on the Rio Mayo, with an 

 estimated population of 10,000. Accord- 

 ing to Davila (Sonora, 315, 1894) their 

 industries were reduced to the cultivation 

 of the soil, the raising of sheep and do- 

 mestic birds, and the manufacture of 

 woolen shawls. He says the Mayo 

 pueblos are larger than those of the Yaqui, 

 but the number of people of the latter is 

 now greater than that of the former. The 



