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NAVASINK NAWITI 



[b. a. : 



the Navaho (q. v.)- Consult Hewett (1) 

 in Am Anthrop.,yiir, 193, 1906; (2) Bull. 

 32, B. A. E., 16, 1906. 



Navasink ('at the promontory'). A 

 tribe of the Unami branch of the Dela- 

 wares formerly living in the highlands 

 of Navesink, N. J., claiming the land 

 from Barnegat to the Raritan. Hudson, 

 who encountered them immediately after 

 entering the bay of New York, describes 

 them as "clothed in mantles of feathers 

 and robes of fur, the women clothed in 

 hemp; red copper pipes, and other things 

 of copper they did wear about their 

 necks. ' ' Theyappear to have passed out 

 of history soon after their lands were sold. 

 Na-ussins.— Nelson, Inds. N. J., 101, 1894 (early 

 form). Navecinx.— Tom (1671) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., XII, 49:^, 1877. Navesand,— Needham (1666), 

 ibid., XIII, 398, 1881. Navesinck.— Winfield, Hud- 

 son Co., 44, 1874. Navesinks.— Nelson, op. cit. 

 Navisinks.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Trilics, vi, 100, 1857. 

 Navison.— Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson K., 159, i872. 

 Neuwesink.— Stuyvesant (1660) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., Xill, 163, 1881. Neversincks.— Ruttenber, 

 Tribes Hudson R., 89, 1872. Neversinghs.— N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., xill, 99, 1881. Neversink,— Van der 

 Donck (1656) quoted bv Ruttenber, Tribes Hud- 

 son R., 51, 1872. Nevesin.— Beekman (1660) in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xii,308, 1877. Nevesinck.— 

 Van Werckhoven (1651), ibid., xiii, 29, 1881. 

 Neve-Sincks.— Van der Donck (1656) quoted by 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 72, 1872. Neve- 

 sings.— Doc. of 1674 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ii, 

 694, 18.'i8. Nevesinks.— Doc. of 1659, ibid., XIll, 

 99, l.HSl. Nevisans.— Lovelace (1669), ibid., 423. 

 Newasons.— Ogilbv (1671) quoted by Nel.son, 

 Inds. N. J., 101, 1894. Newesinghs.— Doc. of 1659 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xill, 100, 1881. Newe- 

 sink.— Stuyvesant (1668), ibid., 84. Nieuesinck.— 

 Doc. of 1652, ibid., 34. Nieuwesinck,— Ibid., xiv, 

 188,1883. Novisans.— Lovelace (1665) quoted by 

 Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 68, 1872. 



Navawi (Na-va-wi^ ' placeof the hunting 

 trap ' ) . A group of ancient Tewa ruins 

 w. of the Rio Grande, situated between 

 the Rito de los Frijoles and Santa Clara 

 canyon, s. w. of San Ildefonso, N. Mex. 

 They consist of two large buildings about 

 200 yils. apart, several clan houses on the 

 mesa near by, and a cliff village cf con- 

 sideral)le extent in the base of the low 

 mesa to the s. and w. The ruin takes its 

 name from a pitfall (nam) on the narrow 

 neck of mesa about 300 yds. w. of the 

 pueblo ruin, at the convergence of four 

 trails. 



Navakwi. — Hewett in Am. Anthrop., vi, 645,1904. 

 Navawi.— Hewett in Bull. 32, B. A. E., 22, 1906. 

 Navekwi— Hewett in Am. .\nthrop., op. cit., map. 



Navialik ('place of the long-tailed 

 duck ' ) . An Ita Eskimo village on Smith 

 sd., N. Greenland. 



Navialik.— Kane, Arctic Explor., ii, 199, 1856. 

 Nerdla'rin, — Stein in Petermanns Mitt., no. 9, map, 

 1902. 



Navigation. See Boats, Travel. 



Navisok. A former Aleut village on 

 Agattu id., Alaska, one of the Near id. 

 group of the Aleutians, now uninhabited. 



Navojoa ('prickly-pear house'; from 

 nabo 'prickly pear,' houa 'house.' — 

 Buelna). One of the principal settle- 

 ments of the Mayo on Rio Mayo, s. w. 



Sonora, Mexico. Of a total population 

 of 8,500 in 1900, 744 were Cahita (Mayo), 

 69 "Cahuillo," and 28 Yaqui. 

 Nabojoa. — Kino map (1702) in Stocklein, Neue 

 Welt-Bott, 1726. Natividad Navajoa,— Orozco y 

 Berra, Geog., 3.'i6. 1864. Navahoa. — Hardy, Travels 

 in Mexico. 438, l,S29. Navohoua. — Orozco y Berra, 

 op. cit. Navojoa. — Censo de Sonora, 94, 1901 (pres- 

 ent official designation). 



Nawaas. An unidentified tribe or band 

 occupying a stockaded village, under a 

 chief named Morahieck, on the e. side 

 of Connecticut r. between the Scantic 

 and the Podunk, near the mouth of tlie 

 latter, in Hartford co., Conn., in the 17th 

 century. 



Nawaas.— Map of 1616 in N. Y'. Doc. Col. Hist., I, 

 13, 1856. Nawas.— Macaulev, N. Y., II, 162, 1829. 

 Nawes.— De Laet (1633) iuN.Y.Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 2d s., I, 307, 1841. Newashe.— Trumbull Ind. 

 Names Conn., 38, 1881. 



Nawacaten. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, on the n. bank of the 

 Rappahannock, in Richmond co., Va. — 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1S19. 



Nawake. A place marked as an Indian 

 fort on Lattre's map of 1784, on the upper 

 Scioto, in Ohio. It may have belonged 

 to the Shawnee. 



Nawat ( 'Left-hand ' ) . The i^rincipal 

 chief of the Southern Arapaho since the 

 death of Little Raven (q. v.) in 1889. He 

 was born about 1840, and l)ecame noted 

 as a warrior and buffalo Inmter, taking 

 active part in the western border wars 

 until the treaty of Medicine Lodge in 

 1867, since which time his people, as a 

 tribe, have remained at peace with the 

 whites. In 1890 he ti lok the lead in sign- 

 ing the allotment agreement oiiening the 

 reservation to white settlement, notwith- 

 standing the Cheyenne, in open coimcil, 

 had threatened death to anyone who 

 signed. He several times visited Wasli- 

 ington in the interest of his tribe. Having 

 become blind, he has recently resigned 

 his authority to a younger man. (.r. m. ) 



Naw-gaw-nub. See Nagonuh. 



Nawiti. A term with three applica- 

 tions: (1) A Kwakiutl town formerly at 

 C. Comnierell, n. coast of Vancouver id.; 

 (2) a modern town, properly called Me- 

 loopa, a short distance s. of the preced- 

 ing, from which it received its name; (3) 

 by an extension of the town name it came 

 to be a synonym for the Nakomgilisala 

 and Tlatlasikoala collectively, whose 

 language constitutes the "Newettee sub- 

 dialect" of Boas. Pop. 69 in 1906. 

 Mel'oopa. — Dawson in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can:, sec. ii, 

 70,1887. Nah-witte.— Can. Ind. Aff., 145, 1879. Nah- 

 wittis.— Scott in Ind. Aff. Rep., 316,1868. Nauete.— 

 Boasin Bull. Am. Geog. Soc, 227, 1887. Na-wee-tee. — 

 Kane.Wand.inN. A.,app.,1859. Nawiti.— Tolmie 

 andDawson.Vocabs.Brit. Col., 118b. 1S84. Neu-wit- 

 ties. — Dunn, Oregon, 242, 1844. Newatees.— Sproat, 

 Savage Life, 314, 1868. Neweetee.— Irving, Asto- 

 ria, 107, 1849. Neweetees.— Lee and Frost, Oregon, 

 64, 1844. Neweetg.— Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, July 

 19, 1862. Newettee.— Dunn, Oregon, 242, 1844. 

 Newitlies.— Armstrong, Oregon, 136, 1857. Newit- 

 tees.-Grant in Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc, 293, 1857, 



