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competent to assist in the particular line 

 of diseases which are the specialty of 

 their society and therefore may be called 

 by the actual medicine-men for assist- 

 ance. They participate also in the cere- 

 monies of their own society. See Anat- 

 omy, Artificial Head Deformation, Health 

 and Disease, Physiologii. 



For writings on the subject consult 

 Hrdlicka, Physiological and Medical Ob- 

 servations, Bull. 33, B. A. E., 1907 (in 

 press). (a. h. ) 



Medilding ('place of boats'). A Hupa 

 village, the mo.st important of the south- 

 ern division of this people, on the e. side 

 of Trinity r., Cal., 2 m. from the s. end of 

 Hupa valley. (p. e.g.) 



Ipupukhmam, — Goddard, infn, 1903 (Karok name). 

 Kahtetl.— Gibbs, MS., B. A. E., 1852 ( Yurok naiiie). 

 Ka-la-tih. — Mover, Nach dem Sacramento, 282, 

 1855. Ka-tah-te.— McKee (1851) in Sen. Ex. Doe. 

 4, 32d Cong., spec, sess., 194, 1853. Matilden, — 

 Spalding in Ind. Aff. Rep., 82, 1870. Matilton.— 

 Goddard, Life and Cultnre of tlie Hupa, 12, 1903. 

 Uedildin. — Ibid. Mi-til'-ti. — Powers in Cont. N. 

 A. Ethnol., Ill, 73, 1877. Olleppauh'1-kah-teht' 1.— 

 Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, ni, 139, 1853. 



Medoctec. A former Malecite village 

 on St John r., New Brunswick, about 

 10 m. below the present Woodstock. In 

 1721 the name occurs as that of an Abna- 

 ki tribe. (.j. m. ) 



Madocteg.— St Maurice (1760) in N. Y. Doe. Col. 

 Hist., x,10(i4, 18.58. Medocktack.— Gvle.s (1736) in 

 Drake, Trag. Wild., 78, 1841. Medoctec— Writer of 

 1723 in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., vii, 5, 1876. Me- 

 docteck.— Memoir of 1724 in N.Y. Doc. Col. Hist., IX, 

 940, 1855. Medoctek.— Vaudreuil (1721), ibid., 

 904. Medoctet.— Beauharnois (1745), ibid., x, 13, 



1858. Medocthek Iberville (1701), ibid., ix, 733, 



1855 (the river). Medoktek. — Shea, Cath. Miss., 

 143,1855. Medostec. — Lotter, map, ca. 1770. 



Medvednaia (Russ. : 'bearish', from 

 medved, 'bear'). A Yukonikhotana 

 settlement on the s. side of Yukon r., 

 Alaska; pop. 15 in 1880.— Petroff in 10th 

 Census, Alaska, 12, 1884. 



Meecombe. An Abnaki village on lower 

 Penobscot r., Me., in 1602-09.— Purchas 

 (1625) in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 156, 1857. 



Meeshawn. A former Nauset village 

 near Truro, Barnstable co., Mass. In 

 1698 it contained about 50 inhabitants. 

 Meeshawn. — Bourne (1674) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., I, 196, 1806. Meshawn,— Freeman, 

 ibid., 1st S..VIII, 160,1802. 



Meetkeni. A former Tolowa village on 



the s. fork of Smith r., Cal. 



Me'-et-ke'-ni. — Dorsey, Smith RiverMS. vocab., B. 



A. E., 1884 (Khaamotene name). Me'-rxet-ke. — 



Dorsey, Chetco MS. vocab., B. A. E.,1884 (Chetco 



name). 



Meggeckessou. Mentioned as if a Dela- 

 ware village in 1659. The editor of the 

 New York Colonial Documents locates 

 it at Trenton Falls, N. J., on Delaware r. 

 Mecheckesiouw.— Hudde (1662) in N.Y. Doe. Col. 

 Hist., XII, 370,1877. Meggeckesjouw. — Beeckman 

 (1663), ibid. ,446. Meggeckessou. — Beeckman (16,59), 

 ibid., 255. 



Mehashunga {Me-ha-sliun'-ga, 'duck'). 

 A Kansa gens. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 156, 

 1877. 



Meherrin. An Iroquoian tribe formerly 

 residing on the riverof the same nameon 

 the Virginia-North Carolina border. Jef- 

 ferson confounded them with the Tutelo. 

 According to othcial colonial documents 

 they were a remnant of the Conestoga or 

 Susquehanna of upper Maryland, dis- 

 persed by the Iroquois about 1675, but 

 this also is incorrect, as they are found 

 noted under the name "Menheyricks" 

 in the census of Virginia Indians in 1669, 

 at which time they numbered 50 bow- 

 men, or approximately 180 souls (Neill, 

 Virginia, Carolorum, 326, 1886). It is 

 possible that the influx of refugee Cones- 

 toga a few years later may have so over- 

 whelmed the remnant of the original tribe 

 as to give rise to the impression that they 

 were all of Conestoga blood. They were 

 commonly regarded as under the juris- 

 diction of Virginia, although their terri- 

 tory was claimed also by Carolina. They 

 were closely cognate with the Nottoway, 

 q. V. (j. M. ) 



Maharim. — Newnam (1722) in Humphrevs, Acct., 

 140, 1730. Maherin.— Doc. of 17051n N. C. Col. Rec, 

 I, 615, 1880. Haherine.— Doc. of 1703, ibid., 570. 

 Mahering. — Boundary Com'rs (1728), ibid., II, 748. 

 Maherrin. — Council of 1726, ibid., 640. Maher- 

 ring.— Lawson (1710) , Hist. Car., 383, 1860. Maher- 

 ron.— Council of 1726 in N. C. Col. Rec, ii, 640, 

 1886. Meherine.— Council of 1724, ibid., 525. 

 Meherins. — Doc. of 1712, ibid., l, 891. Meheron. — 

 Doc. of 1721, ibid., ii, 426. Meherries. — School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, v, 36, 1855. Meherrin.— Council 

 of 1726 in N. C.Col. Rec, ii, 643,1886. Meherring.— 

 Doc of 1715, ibid., 204. Meherrins.— Pollock 

 (1712), ibid., I, 884. Meherron.— Hyde (1711), 

 ibid., 751. Menchaerink. — l.eilerer (German, 1670) 

 in Hawks, N. C, il, 52, 18.58. Menderink.— Ogilby 

 map (1671), ibid, (misprint after Lederer's 

 map). Mendoerink. — Lederer, map (1670), ibid. 

 (German form misprinted). Mendwrink. — Led- 

 erer (1670) Disco v., map, repr. 1902. Menher- 

 ring.— Doc. of 1722 in N. C. Col. Rec, ii, 475, 1886. 

 Menheyricks.— Census of 1669 quoted by Neill, 

 Va. Carolorum, 326, 1886. Meterries. — Keane in 

 Stanford, Compend., 522, 1878 (misprint). 



Mehkoa ('squirrel'). A gens of the 

 Abnaki, q. v. 



Meh-ko-a'.— Morgan, Anc Soc, 174, 1877. 

 Mi'kowa, — J. D. Prince, infn, 1905 (modern St 

 Francis Abnaki form). 



Meipontsky. A former tribe of pied- 

 mont Virginia, probably of Siouan stock, 

 incorporated about 1700 with the Chris- 

 tanna Indians. See Mooney, Siouan 

 Tribes of the East, Bull. B. A. E.,1894. 



Meipontsky. — Albany eonf. (1722) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., V, 673, 1855. Meipoutsky.— Byrd, Hist. 

 Div. Line, ii, 2.57, 1866. 



Mejia. A hacienda 5 leagues below 

 Isleta, N. Mex., on the Rio Grande, in 

 1692. At this date it probably contained 

 a few Piros, or perhaps some Tigua from 

 Isleta. — Vargas (1692) quoted by Davis, 

 Span. Conq. N. Mex., 351, 1869; Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. Mex., 200, 1889. 



Mekadewagamitigweyawininiwak ( Mak- 

 addira(ja))ut1gircya-ii:otmTirug, ' people of 

 the black water river.' — W. J. ). A Chip- 

 pewa band formerly living on Black r., 

 s. E. Mich. 



