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NAMEUILINI NAMPA IMAGE 



[b. a. e. 



of persons in authority of native cus- 

 toms and methods of reckoning descent. 

 According to Mooney, Setimkia, 'Bear 

 bearing down (an antagonist),' the lion- 

 orable war name of a noted Kiowa 

 cliief, is mistranslated 'Stumbling- Bear.' 

 Tenei^abi, 'Bird coming into sight', has 

 been popularly known as 'Humming- 

 bird' since he was a prisoner in Florida 

 in 1875, probably a mistake for 'Coming 

 bird.' Hajo, a Creek war title signifying 

 'recklessly brave,' is popularly rendered 

 'crazy,' as in the case of Chito Hajo, 

 leader of the Creek opposition to allot- 

 ment, whose name is popularly and offi- 

 cially rendered 'Crazy Snake.' Even 

 when translated correctly an Indian name 

 often conveys an impression to a white 

 man quite the reverse of the Indian con- 

 notation. Thus 'Stinking Saddle Blanket' 

 (Takaibodal) might be considered an op- 

 probious epithet, whereas it is an honor- 

 ary designation, meaning that the bearer 

 of it, a Kiowa, was on the warpath so con- 

 tinuously that he did not have time to 

 take off his saddle blanket. 'Unable-to- 

 buy,' the name of a Haida chief, instead 

 of indicating his poverty, commemorates 

 an occasion when a rival chief did not 

 have enough property to purchase a cop- 

 per plate he offered for sale. 



In recent years the Office of Indian Af- 

 fairs has made an effort to systematize 

 the names of some of the Indians for the 

 purpose of facilitating land allotments, etc. 

 By circular issued Dec. 1, 1902, the office 

 set forth the following principles govern- 

 ing the recording of Indian names on 

 agency rolls, etc.: (1) The father's name 

 should be the family surname; (2) the 

 Indian name, unless too long and clumsy, 

 should be preferred to a translation; 

 (3) a clumsy name may be arljitrarily 

 shortened (b)"^ one familiar with the lan- 

 guage) without losing its identity; (4) 

 if the use of a translation seems neces- 

 sary, or if a translation has come into 

 such general and accepted use that it 

 ought to be retained, that name should 

 be written as one word. 



Consult Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 

 1897; Cookinlnd. Aff. Kep. 1904, 423-427, 

 1905; Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XVII, pt. 3, 1905; J. 0. Dorsey in 3d 

 Rep. B. A. E., 1884; Fletcher in Am. 

 Anthrop., Jan. 1899; Hill-Tout (1) in Rep. 

 Brit. A. A. S., 1902, (2) in Am. Anthrop., 

 VII, no. 4, 1905; Gatschet, Creek Migr. 

 Leg., I, II, 1884-88; Loskiel, Hist, of Mis- 

 sions of United Brethren, 1794; Mooney, 

 Calendar Hist. Kiowa, 17th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1898; Riggs, Dakota-Eng. Diet., 1852; 

 Sapir in Am. Anthrop., ix, no. 2, 1907; 

 Speck, ibid.; Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., II, no. 4, 1900. (j. e. s.) 



Nameuilini [Numdiiylnirii, 'sturgeon 

 man.' — W. J.). A band living n. w. of 



L. Superior, between Rainy lake and L. 

 Nipigon, in Algoma, Ontario, about 1760. 

 Chauvignerie says their totem was a stur- 

 geon. They are probably the Nama gens 

 of the Chippewa. 



Kinongeouilini. — St Pierre (1753) in Margry, D6c., 

 VI, 644, 1886. Nakonkirhirinous.— Dobbs, Hudson 

 Bay, 23, 1744. Namawinini. — Wm. Jones, inf'n, 

 1906. Nameanilieu. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, ill, 

 556, 1S53 (misprint). NameSilinis, — Chauvignerie 

 (1736) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., i.x, 1054, 1855. 

 Namewilinis. — Doc. of 1736 in Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 XVII, 246, 1906. Sturgeon lojUans, — Dobbs, Hudson 

 Bay, 13, 1744. 



Namoit. A village of a tribe of the 

 Chinookan family formerly situated on 

 the Columbia side of Sauvies id., Oreg., 

 near its lower end. According to Lane 

 (Ind. Aff. Rep., 161, 1850) the inhabitants 

 in 1850 were associated with the Cathla- 

 cumup and Katlaminimim. Nothing 

 more is known of them. (l. f. ) 



Mamnit. — Gairdner, after Framboise (1835), in 

 Jour. Geog. Soc. Lond., xi, 255, 1841. Nah-moo- 

 itk.— Lyman in Oreg. Hist. Soc. Quar., i,322, 1900. 

 Namo'itk, — Boas, inf'n, 1905. Namowit. — Ross, 

 Adventures, 106, 1849. Naw-moo-it.— Ibid., 236. 



Namontack. A trusted Powhatan Ind- 

 dian whom Powhatan gave to Capt. New- 

 port in 1608 in return for the English boy, 

 Thomas Savage, left with the former for 

 the purpose of gaining knowledge of the 

 language, manners, customs, and geog- 

 raphy of tidewater Virginia. Namontack 

 was of shrewd and subtle character, and 

 proved of service to the English in pre- 

 venting attack and in obtaining needed 

 corn (Smith, Works, Arber ed. , 128, 1884 ) . 

 He was subsequently sent to England, 

 and on the way back, in 1610, was mur- 

 dered in the Burmudas by an Indian 

 companion. 



Nampa image. A.small human figure of 

 baked clay, 1\ in. in height, apparently in- 

 tended to represent a female. It is so 

 much injured by exposure that the fea- 

 tures are entirely destroyed and the 

 hands and feet are missing. It derives its 

 archeological interest from the fact that it 

 is said to have been brought from a depth 

 of 320 ft by an artesian well sand-pump, 

 at Nampa, Idaho, in 1889. According to 

 Emmons, the formations in which the 

 pump was operating are of late Ter- 

 tiary or early Quaternary age; and the 

 apparent improbability of the occurrence 

 of a well-modeled human figure in de- 

 posits of such great antiquity has led to 

 grave doubt as to its authenticity. It is 

 one of those discoveries which, on ac- 

 count of the importance of the prob- 

 lems involved, requires definitive veri- 

 fication. It is interesting to note that 

 the age of this object, supposing it to be 

 authentic, corresponds with that of the 

 incipient man whose bones were recently 

 recovered by Dubois from the late Ter- 

 tiary or early Quaternary formations of 

 Java, and it follows that the autochthon- 

 ous American sculptor had produced this 



