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MUSKlNaUM MUSWASIPI 



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Aiitiq. Soc, II, 100, 306, 1836. =Chata-Muskoki.— 

 Hale in Am. Antiq., 108, Apr. 1883. >Choctah.— 

 Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 337, 1850 (includes 

 Choctahs, Muscogulges, Muskohges); Latham in 

 Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond., 103, 18.56: Latham, 

 Opuscula,366, 1860. >Chocta-Muskhog.— Gallatin 

 in Trans Am. Ethnol. Soc, ii, pt. 1, xcix, 77, 

 1848. >Choctaw Muskhogee. — Gallatin in Trans. 

 Am. Antiq. Soc, li, 119, 1836. >Coshattas.— 

 Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 349, 1850 (not clas.si- 

 fied). >Flat-heads.— Prichard, Phys. Hist. Man- 

 kind, V, 403, 1847. >Humas.— Latham, Nat. 

 Hist. Man, 341, IsbO (E. of Mississippi above New 

 Orleans). =Maskoki. — Gatschet, Creek Migr.Leg., 



I, 50, 1884. >IIobilian. — Bancroft, Hist. U. S., 249, 

 1840. >Muscogee. — KcaneinStanford. Compend.. 

 app., 460, 187S. >Muskhogee. — Gallatin in Trans. 

 Am. Antiq. Soc., ii, 94, 1836. Muskhogies, — Berg- 

 haus (1845), Phvsik. Atlas, map 17, 1^848. >Tschah- 

 tas.— ll)id.; ibid., 18.52. 



Muskingum ('moose eye or face.' — 

 Hewitt). A Delaware (?) village marked 

 on old maps as on the w. bank of Mus- 

 kingum r. , Ohio. 



Muskingom. — La Tour, map, 1779. Muskingum. — 

 Giissefeld, map, 1784. Muskingun. — Alcedo, Die. 

 Gcog.. in, 274, 1788. Muskinkum.— Esnauts and 

 Rapilly, map, 1777. 



Muskwawasepeotan ( ' the town of the 

 old redwood creek'). A Potawatomi 

 village formerly near Cedarville, Allen co., 

 N. E. Ind. , on land sold in 1828, and com- 

 monly known as Metea's Village from 

 the name of its chief. (.i. m.) 



Metea's Village. — Mississinewa treaty (1826) in 

 U. S. Ind. Treat , 670, 1873. Muskwawasepeotan,— 

 Long cited bv McKennev and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 



II, 61, 1849. 



Muskwoikakenut ( Mus-kwoi-kd-ke-nut, 

 ' He shoots bears with arrows' ). A Cree 

 band, so called after its chief, living in 

 1856 in the vicinity of Ft de Prairie, 

 Northwest Ter., Canada. — Hayden, Eth- 

 nog. and Philol. Mo. Val., 237, 1862. 



Muskwoikauepawit ( Mns-k%mi-kdu-e-pa- 

 loit, ' Standing bear'). A Cree band, so 

 called after its chief, living in 1856 al)Out 

 Ft de Prairie, Northwest Ter., Canada.— 

 Hayden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Val., 

 237, 1862. 



Musme {Mus-me'). A former village of 

 the Chastacosta on Rogue r., Oreg. — 

 Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, iii, 234, 

 1890. 



Muspa. A Calusa village on the s. w. 

 coast of Florifcla about 1570 (Fontaneda), 

 probably about the mouth of Caloosa- 

 hatchee r. The people of Muspa were 

 among the last of the Calusa to retain 

 their name and territory. C. Romano is 

 marked on old English maps as Punta de 

 Muspa and the coast strip extending thence 

 northward to the entrance of Caloosaha- 

 tchee r. is marked on some Spanish majis 

 as La Muspa (B. Smith). The Muspa 

 Indians, according to Brinton (Flor. 

 Penin., 114, 1859), occupied the shore 

 and islands of Boca Grande, the main 

 entrance of Charlotte harbor, until 

 toward the close of the 18th century, 

 when they were driven to the keys by 

 the Seminole; but according to Douglas 

 (Am. Antiq., vii, 281, 1885) they were 

 still in the vicinity of Pine id., in Char- 



lotte harbor, as late as 1835. There is 

 even reasoil to believe that they took 

 part in some of the raiding in the Semi- 

 nole war as late as 1840. (.i. m. ) 

 Muspa. — Fontaneda {ca. 1575), Memoir, Smith 

 trans., 19, 1854. 



Musquarro. A former Montagnais ren- 

 dezvous and mission station on the n. 

 shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence, opposite 

 Anticosti id. The Indians deserted it in 

 recent years for Romaine. 

 Mashquaro. — McLean, Hudson Bay, ii, 53, 1849. 

 Maskouaro.— Hinil, Lab. Penin., il, 180, 1863. Mas- 

 quarro. — Ibid., 26. Musquahanos. — Can. Ind. AfT. 

 1880, 313, 1881 (applied to the band there; mis- 

 print?). Musquarro. — Hind, Lab. Penin., ii, 133, 

 1863. 



Musquash. A name for the muskrat 



( Filter zibethicus) , used in Canada and n. 

 and w. parts of the United States. In 

 early writings on Virginia the forms 

 rmissascus and imisrjuassus (Capt. John 

 Smith, 1616), timscassus (Hakluyt, 1609), 

 and others, occur. Cognate words in 

 other Algonquian dialects are the Abnaki 

 iimskivei^.m, and the Chippewa niiskivasi, 

 signifying 'it is red,' which was therefore 

 the original signification of the Virginian 

 name whereof Smith's word is a corrup- 

 tion, and referred to the'reddish color of 

 the animal. See Mooi^kirasith. (a.f. c. ) 



Musqueam. A Cowichan tribe occupy- 

 ing the N. part of the Eraser delta, Brit. 

 Col. ; pop. 98 in 1906. Male is their vil- 

 lage. 



Miskwiam.— Tolmie and Dawson, Vocabs., Brit. 

 Col., 119b, 1884. Misqueam.— Can. Ind. Aff. for 

 1880, 316, 1881. Musqueam.— Ibid., 1901, pt. il, 158. 

 Musqueeam. — Ibid., 1877, Li. Musqueom. — Ibid., 

 1902. 72. ftmE' fkoyim.— Boas in 64lh Rep. Brit. 

 A. A. S., 454, 1894. Qmuski'Em.— Hill-Tout in 

 Ethnol. Surv. Can., 54, 1902. 



Mussauco. A former village, probably 

 near Hartford, Conn. Its chief, Arrha- 

 mamet, was conquered by Uncas, the 

 Mohegan chief, about 1654. — Trumbull, 

 Conn., I, 129, 1818. 



Mussundummo ( ' water snake. ' — Tan- 

 ner, Narr., 314, 1830). Given as one 

 of the totems among the Ottawa and 

 Chippewa. It may be an Ottawa totem, 

 as it is not mentioned by Morgan or 

 Warren. 



Mustak. A former village of the Kalin- 

 daruk division of the Costanoan family, 

 connected with San Carlos mission, Cal. 

 Mustac— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860. 



Mustoo, A name given by Dawson to a 

 supposed town on Hippa id., Queen Char- 

 lotte ids., Brit. Col., but in reality the 

 word is a corrui)tion of Nasto, the Haida 

 name for Hippa id., on which there were 

 several towns. See Atanus, Gatf/n-irums, 

 Subi-Ktins. (.J. R. s. ) 



Muswasipi (cognate with Chippewa 

 Monva-sihl, 'moose river.' — W. J.). The 

 name of one of the divisions of the 

 Upeshipow, an Algonquian tribe of Lab- 

 rador, living in 1770 on Moose r., Ruperts 

 Land, Brit. Am. — Richardson, Arctic 

 Exped., II, 38, 1851. 



