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NAMEAUG NAMES AND NAMING 



[b. a. b. 



Nambi.— Cooper in Ind. Aff. Rep., 161, 1870. 

 Namburuap.— Hodge, field notes, B. A. E., 1895 (Is- 

 leta name of pueblo). Kami Te. — Simpson, Rep. 

 to Sec. War, 2d map, 1S50. Nampe. — Domenech, 

 Deserts N. Am., i, 443, 1860. Nome'e.— Hodge, 

 field notes, B. A. E., 1895 (Acoma name of pueblo). 

 Numi.— Stephen in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 37, 1891 

 (Hano name of pueblo). San Francisco. — Villa- 

 Senor, Theatro Am., ii, 425. 1748 (mission name). 

 San Francisco de Nambe. — Ward in Ind. Aff. Rep. 

 1867, 213, 1868. San Francisco Nambe. — Vctancurt 

 (ca. 1693) in TeatroMex., in, 317, 1.S71. St. Fran- 

 cis.— Shea, Cath. Miss., SO, 1855. Vampe.— Pike, 

 Exped., 3d map, 1810. 



Nameaug (Mahican: name-auk, 'fishing 

 place,' or 'where fish are taken.' — Trum- 

 bull). A former village near the site of 

 New London, Conn., in which some of 

 the conquered Pequot were settled in 1647 

 under the dominion of the Mahican. The 

 last chief died about 1740, but there were 

 still a considerable number of Indians 

 there in 1755. (j. m. ) 



Mameag.— Kendall, Trav., I, 292, 1809. Mame- 

 eag.— Stiles (1762) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., 

 X, 101-103, 1809. Namcet.— Mason (16.59), ibid., 

 4th s., VII, 423, 1865. Nameacke. — Poc. cited by 

 Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 34, 1881. Name- 

 age.— Mason (1648), ibid., 413. Nameaug. — Hovt, 

 Antiq. Res., 62, 1824. Nameeag. -Deed (1651) 

 quoted bv Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 2, 110, 1848. 

 Nameock.— Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 34,1881. 

 Nameocke. — Hopkins (1646) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 4th s., VI, 334, 1863. Nameoke,— Drake, Bk. 

 Inds., bk. 2, 95, 1848. Nameug.— Williams (1647) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., IX, 268, 1846. 

 Nameugg. — Doc. cited by Trumljull, Ind. Names 

 Conn., 34, ISSl. Nammiog. — Ibid. Namyok. — 

 Ibid. Tawawag. — Ibid., 72. Tawawog. — Deed of 

 1654 in I\Iass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., X, 101-103, 1809. 

 Htwawog.— Kendall, Trav., i, 292, 1809. 



Namequa. The only daughter of Black 

 Hawk (q. v.), regarded as one of the 

 handsomest of the Sauk maidens of her 

 time. A j'oung Baltimorean of high so- 

 cial standing, being on a visit to Ft Madi- 

 son, Iowa, became enamored of her and 

 would have made her his wife but for the 

 opposition of his friends. Namequa ap- 

 pears to have been ever faithful to her 

 father's interests and to his memory, and 

 after reaching maturer j'ears, and even 

 after her marriage, was a constant help 

 to her mother, especially during her fath- 

 er's imprisonment and after his death in 

 1838. _ (c. T.) 



Nameroughquena. A vil lage of the Pow- 

 hatan confederaej' in 1608, in the present 

 Alexandria CO., Va., on the s. bank of the 

 Potomac, opposite Washington, D. C. — 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. 



Names and Naming. Among the In- 

 dians personal names were given and 

 changed at the critical epochs of life, such 

 as birth, puberty, the first war expedi- 

 tion, some notable feat, elevation to chief- 

 tainship, and, finally, retirement from 

 active life was marked by the adoption 

 of the name of one's son. In general, 

 names may be divided into two classes: 

 (1) True names, corresponding to our 

 personal names, and (2) names Avhich 

 answer rather to our titles and honorary 

 appellations. The former define or indi- 

 cate the social group into which a man is 



born, whatever honor they entail being 

 due to the accomplishments of ancestors, 

 while the latter mark what the individual 

 has done himself. 



There are characteristic tribal differ- 

 ences in names, and where a clan system 

 existed each clan had its own setof names, 

 distinct from those of all other clans, and, 

 in the majority of cases, referring to the 

 totem animal, plant, or object. At the 

 same time there were tribes in which 

 names apparently had nothing to do with 

 totems, and some such names were apt 

 to occur in clans liaving totemic names. 

 Most Siouan clans and bands had names 

 that were applied in a definite order to the 

 boys and girls born into them. A Mohave 

 child born out of wedlock received some 

 ancient name, not commonly employed 

 in the tribe. Among the interior Salish, 

 where there were no clans, names were 

 usually inherited in both the male and 

 female lines for several generations, 

 though new names were continually in- 

 troduced that were taken from dreams 

 or noteworthy events. Loskiel records 

 that a Delaware child was often named 

 in accordance with some dream that had 

 come lo its father. According to Ross, 

 a father among some of the northern 

 Athapascan tribes lost his name as soon 

 as a male child was born and Mas hence- 

 forth called after the name of his sou; 

 aThlingchadinne changed his name after 

 the birth of each successive child, while 

 an unmarried man was known as the 

 child of his favorite dog. Among the 

 Maidu infants might be named with ref- 

 erence to some incident occurring at the 

 time of birth, but many received no 

 names other than such general appella- 

 tions as 'child,' 'baby,' or 'boy,' until 

 they were old enough to exhibit some 

 characteristic which suggested something 

 appropriate. The father and mother ad- 

 dressed a boy all his life by his boyhood 

 name. A gifl, however, received differ- 

 ent successive names at puberty, child- 

 birth, and in old age. The Kiowa, being 

 without clans, received names suggested 

 by some passing incident or to commemo- 

 rate a warlike exploit of some ancestor. 

 Sometimes, however, they were heredi- 

 tary, and in any case they were bestowed 

 by the grandparents to the exclusion of 

 the parents. Young men as they grew 

 up usually assumed dream names, in obe- 

 dience to visions. 



The naming of a rich man's child 

 among the coast Salish was accompanied 

 by a great feast and distribution of prop- 

 erty, and an invited chief publicly an- 

 nounced the name given. Names even 

 originally belonging to the higher class 

 were bestowed upon young people 

 among the Haida and Tlingit when 

 their relatives had potlatches, and it 



