18 THE SERI INDIANS [eth.ann.H 



* PuNTA ToRMENTA (Hurriciine point): Name applied in recognition of the nearly 



continuous gales and tide-rips by which navigation is rendered hazardous, and 

 hy which the long saud-spit has been built. 



PuNTA Miguel (Miguel point): Recast from "Sau Miguel point'', partly througli 

 association with the name of a Papago guard accompanying the expedition of 

 18115 : in the old form the name is of long standing, was probably applied by 

 Escalantc in 1700, and was adopted by the Hydrogiaphlc Office, U. S. N., 1873. 



*PUNTA Granita (Granite point) : A descriptive designation. 



*PuNTA Blanca (White, point) : A descriptive designation. 



"Punta Narragansett (Narragansett point): Specific (of Algonquian Indian deri- 

 vation) applied in commemoration of the vessel employed in the surveys by the 

 Ilydrographic Office, I'. S. N., in 1873, the point being that at which the commander 

 of the Narragansett located the principal Seri ranoheria of that time and made 

 observations on the tribe. 



* PtJNTA Ygnacio ( Ygnacio point) : Specific applied in honor of Don Ygnacio Lozania, 



a trusted aid in the 189.'5 expedition, who had visited this point in connection with 

 the Andrade expedition of 184-1 ; described as "Dark bluff" on charts of the Hydro- 

 graphic Office, U. S. N. 



'Punta Antigualla (Antiquity point — i. e., Point of Antiquities) : Name applied in 

 recognition of a great shell-monnd which has retarded the transgression of the 

 sea and produced the point. 



Punta Kino (Kino point): Name of long standing; specific in honor of the early 

 missionary; used by the Hydrographic Office, U.S.N. 



*PuNTA Mashem (Mashcm point) : Specific in honorof the Seri chief Mashim (some- 

 times called Francisco Estorga or Juan Estorga), who speaks Spanish and acted 

 as Seri-Spanish interpreter in 1894. 



Punta Monumenta (Monument point) : Named by the Hydrographic office, U. S. N. 



Punta Colorada (Red point) : Recast from the "Red Bluff point" of the Hydro- 

 graphic Office, U. S. N. 



Punta Willard (Willard point): Origin of name unknown; used by the Hydro- 

 graphic Office, U.S.N. 



*EmbarcaI)ERO Andrade (Andrade landing): Named in memory of the embarca- 

 ti<ra for Tiburon of Colonel Francisco Andrade, 1844. 



*CaMpo NAVlDAD.(Christnias camp) : Named in memory of a camp occupied Decem- 

 ber 24-26 by the expedition of 189.5. 



•SiKRRA Seri (Seri raugel: Generic Spanish, specific the extra-vernacular tribe 

 name. 



•Sierra Kunkaak (Kunkaak range) : Specific the vernacular tribe name. 



•Sierra Menor (Minor range) : A descriptive designation. 



•Cerros Anacoretos (Anchorite hills): A designation suggested to Topographer 

 Johnson by the solitary series of spurs rising singly or in scattered groups from 

 the sheetflood-oarved desert plain. 



•Johnson PEAK : Name applied in commemoration of the first and only ascent of 

 the peak, and of its occupation as a survey station, December 7 and 8, 1895, by 

 Willard D. Johnson, accompanied by .lohn Walter Mitchell and Miguel (Papago 

 Indian). 



•Desierto Encinas (Encinas desert): Generic Spanish, specific in honor of the 

 intrepid settler on the outskirts of the desert, Sefior Pascual Encinas. 



•Playa Noriega (Noriega playa) : Generic Spanish, specific in honorof Don Andres 

 Noriega, kinsman of Seilora Anita Encinas, a resident on the outskirts of the 

 desert, and the leading Mexican aid in the expedition of 1895. 



•Arenales de Gil (Gil sandbanks) : Generic Spanish, specific in honorof Fray .hum 

 Crisostomo Gil de Beruabe, sole missionai'y to Seriland, massacred at this point 

 in 1773. 



'RiO SoxoRA (Sonora river):. Generic Spanish, specific a long standing .and origi- 

 nally colloquial corruption of Seuora, a designation said to have been applied 



