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his head in token of thanks for the sym- 

 pathy shown. The song continue<l until 

 the last twig was thrown to the ground. 

 The music of the song was in strange con- 

 trast to the bloody spectacle. It was a 

 blithe major melody with no words, but 

 only breathing vocables to float the voice. 

 According to the Indian explanation the 

 song was addressed to the spirit, bid- 

 ding it go gladly on its way ; the blood 

 shed was the tribute of sorrow — grief for 

 the loss of a friend and sympathy for the 

 mourners. The same idea underlies the 

 Omaha custom of ceasing the loud wail at 

 the close of the burial ceremonies lest the 

 sound make it harder for the spirit who 

 must go to leave behind its earthly kin- 

 dred. See 3fortuary cust.o))is. (a. c. f. ) 



Mous ( Mo>'s, ' moose ' ) . A gens of the 

 Chippewa, q. v. 



Mons.— Gatschet, Chippewa MS., B. A. E., 1882. 

 Mons. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1900. Moons.— Tanner, 

 Narrative, 314, 1830. Mous.— Warren (1852) in 

 Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 45, 1885. 



Mousonee ( 3fo»sone, ' moose ' ) . A phra- 

 try of the Chippewa (q. v.). The Mous 

 (Moose) gens is one of its leading gentes, 

 as is also the Waubishashe (^Marten). 

 Warren calls the phratry the Waubishashe 

 group. (j. M. ) 



Gens de Orignal.— Dobbs, Hudson Bay, 33, 1744 

 (same?). Monsone.— Warren in Minn. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., V, 44, 188t (misprint?). Monsone,— Wm. 

 Jones, inf'n, 1906. Monsoni.— Dobbs, Hudson Bay, 

 33, 1744 (same?). Mosonique.— Ibid, (same?) 

 Mous-o-neeg. — Warren in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 Y, 50, 18.85.. 



Movas. A former Nevome pueblo and 

 the seat of the mission of Santa Maria, 

 founded in 1622; situated on one of the 

 s. tributaries of the Rio Yaqui, lat. 28° 

 10^, Ion. 109° 10', Sonera, Mexico; 

 pop. 308 in 1678, and 90 in 1730. Its 

 inhabitants, known as Mova, or Moba, 

 from the name of their settlement, prob- 

 ably spoke a dialect differing slightly 

 from Nevome proper. ( f. w. h. ) 



Concepcion Mobas. — Sonora Materiales (1730) 

 quoted bv Bancroft, No. Mex. States, I, 514, 1884. 

 Mobas.— Zapata (1678) in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., 

 ni, 361, 1857. Movas.— Rudo Ensayo {ca. 1762), 

 124, 1863. Santa Maria Mobas. — Zapata, op. cit., 

 360. 



Movwiats ( Mo-rwl^-ats). A Paiute band 

 formerly living in s. e. Nevada; pop. 57 

 in 1873. 



Mo-vwi'-ats.— Powell in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1873, 50, 

 1874.— Mowi'ats,— Gatschet in Wheeler Surv. Rep., 

 VII, 410, 1879. 



Mowhawa {Mahivdiv", 'wolf.') A gens 

 of the Miami, q. v. 



Ma''hwaw». — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1906. Mo- 

 wha'wa.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 168, 1877. 



Mowha'wissouk [MaJiwdimsowng,. 'they 

 go by the name of the wolf.' — W. J.). 

 A gens of the Sauk and Foxes. See Sauk. 

 Ma'hwawisowag. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1906. Mo- 

 wha-wis'-so-uk.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 170, 1877. 



Mowkowk. See Mocuck. 



Moxus. A chief of the Abnaki, called 

 also Agamagus, the first signer of the 

 treaty of 1699, and seemingly the successor 

 of Mad okawando (Drake, Inds. of N. Am., 



294, 1880). He signed also the treaty 

 witli Gov. Dudley in 1702, but a year 

 afterward unsuccessfully besieged the 

 English fort at Casco, Me. He treated 

 with the English in 1713, and again in 

 1717. It was he who in 1689 captured 

 Pemaquid from the English, (a. f. c. ) 



Moyawance. A tribe living in 1608 on 

 the N. bank of the Potomac, about Prince 

 George co., Md. Their principal village, 

 of the same name, was about Broad cr. 

 They numbered about 400, but their 

 name drops from history at an early date. 

 They were probably a division of the 

 later Conov. 



Moyaoncs.— Smith (1629), Va., II, 86, repr. 1819. 

 Moyaonees.— Bozman, Md., I, 119, 1S37. Moya- 

 ones.— Simons in Smith (1629), Va., I, 177, repr. 

 1819. Moyaons. — Ibid., map. Moyawance, — Ibid., 

 lis. Moyoones.— Strachey (ca. 1612), Va., 38, 1849. 

 Moyowahcos.— Macauley, N. Y., ii, 168, 1829. 

 Moyowance. — Bozman, Md., I, 139, 1837. 



Moytoy. A Cherokee chief of Tellico, 

 Tenn., who became the so-called "em- 

 peror" of the seven chief Cherokee 

 towns. Sir Alexander Cuming, desirous 

 of enlisting the Cherokee in the British 

 interest, decided to place in control a 

 chief of his own selection. Moytoy was 

 chosen, the Indians were induced to ac- 

 cept him, giving him the title of em- 

 peror; and, to carry out the program, all 

 the Indians, including their new sover- 

 eign, pledged themselves on bended knees 

 to be the faithful subjects of King George. 

 On the next day, April 4, 1730, "the 

 crown was brought from Cireat Tennessee, 

 which, with five eagle- tails and four scalps 

 of their enemies, Moytoy presented to Sir 

 Alexander, empowering him to lay the 

 same at His ^Majesty's feet." Neverthe- 

 less, Moytoy afterward became a bitter 

 enemy of the whites, several of whom he 

 killed' without provocation at Sitico, 

 Tenn. SeeMooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 

 pt. 1, 1900. 



Mozeemlek. A problematic people who, 

 according to Lahontan, dwelt somewhere 

 in the region of w. Dakota or Wyoming, 

 in 1700. They wore beards, were 

 clothed like the whites, had copper axes, 

 and lived on a river which emptied into 

 a large salt lake. 



Moseem-lek. — Vaugondv, map, 1778. Mozam- 

 leeks. — Featlicr.stonhaiigh, Canoe Voy.,I, 280, 1847. 

 Mozeemleck. — Lahontan, New Voy., I, 125, 1703. 

 Mozeemlek.— Ibid., 119. Mozeenlek.— Barcia, En- 

 sayo, 297, 1723. Mozemleks.— Harris, Voy. and 

 Trav., II, 920, 1705. 



Mriksah. The eldest son of Canonicus, 

 the celebrated Narraganset chief; known 

 also as Mexam, Mixam, Mixanno, and 

 Meika. After the death of his father in 

 1647 he was made chief sachem of the 

 tribe. He married a sister of Ninigret, 

 who was the noted Quaiapen, called also 

 Old Queen, Sunk Squaw, and Magnus 

 (q. V. ). Mriksah was one of the sachems 

 to whom the English commissioners at 

 Boston sent interrogations regarding their 



