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Nurumberg,— Rusnelli, map (1501), ibid., 2d .s., i, 

 233, isti9 ((.■vidently a form suggested by the name 

 of the German city Nuremberg). Nvrvmbega,— 

 Gastaldi, map (iri.56), as reprodueed l)y Kohl, op. 

 fit., 226. 



Norwalk. A band holding lands on 

 Norvvalk and Saugatuck rs., s. w. Conn., 

 which they .«old in 1640 and 1G41, Ma- 

 hackemo being then the principal chief 

 (De Forest, Inds. Conn., 177, 1851). No 

 tribal name is given this people, but thej' 

 were probably closely connected with the 

 Pangusset, al)Out Stratford, or with the 

 more important Quiunipiac about New 

 Haven. (j.m.) 



Norwootuc. An Algonquian tribe or 

 baiul whose possessions extended from 

 the "great falls" at South Hadley to 

 Mt Sugar Loaf, in the Connecticut val- 

 ley, Mass. They were attacked by the 

 Mohegan about 1656, and were at war 

 with the Montauk and Narraganset. 

 They were probal>ly a part of the In- 

 dians who took part in King Philip's 

 war of 1675 and afterward fled the coun- 

 try, as " Norwootuck plantations" are 

 mentioned in 1678 as if a new English 

 settlement. The Norwootuc were prob- 

 ably the "Nowonthewog or the East- 

 ward Indians," who in 1700 combined 

 with the Mohawk against the English 

 colonists. (.1. M.) 



Nalvotogy.— Pvnchon (1677) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., xin, 611, 1881. Nalwetog.— Pynchon (IOCS), 

 ibid., 308. Narwootuck. — Leete (107.')) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., vil, 579, 1S65. Korwoo- 

 tuck.— Bishop (1078), ibid., vni, 306, 1868. Nor- 

 wottock.— Doc. (ca. 1057) in N. H. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., HI, 96, 1832. Norwottucks.— White, Old-time 

 Haunts, 7, 1903. Norwuthick.— Quanapaug (1675) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., VI, 207, 1800. No- 

 ■wonthewoR. — Doc. of 1700 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 IV, 611, 18.54. 



Noscaric. A Maricopa rancheria on the 

 Rio ( Jila, Arizona, in 1744. — Sedehnair 

 (1744) cited bv Bancroft, Ariz, and N. 

 Mex., 366, 1889. 



Nostic. A former settlement of the 

 Tepecano or of a related tribe who may 

 have Ijeen re})laced by Tlaxcaltec intro- 

 duced by the Spaniards in the 18th cen- 

 tury as a defence against the "Chichi- 

 mecs." Situated on the Kio de Bolailos, 

 al^out 4J m. s. of Mezquitic, in Jalisco, 

 Mexico. — Hrdlicka in Am. Anthrop., v, 

 888, 409, 1903. 



Nastic— Mota Padilla (1742), Hist, de la Conq., 

 354, )S70. 



Notaloten. A Koyukukhotana village 

 on Yukon r., Alaska, 20 m. above the 

 mouth of Koyukuk r. Pop. 37 in 1844; 

 15 in 1890. 



Natulaten.— Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, map, 

 1884. Nohtalohton. — Post-route map, 1903. Notag- 

 lita. — Zagoskiu cuioted bv Petrolf, op. cit., 37. No- 

 taloten.— Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1901. 



Notched plates. Stone platesofdiscoidal 

 or rectangular form olitained mainly from 

 ancient mounds in the Ohio valley and 

 the Southern states. Heretofore these 

 plates have been classed with problemat- 

 ical objects (q. v.), and the significance 



of some specimens remains j'et in doubt; 

 but Moore has shown that those obtained 

 in Alabama were uiuloubtedly used in 

 grindingpigments. Itisalsoobservedthat 

 a closeanalogy exists between these tablets 

 and the pigment plates employed by the 

 Pueblos and other Southwestern tribes, 

 and also frequently encountered among 

 the ancient ruins of the S. W. ( Fevvkes, 

 Russell). The rectangular specimens 

 rarely exceed 10 in. in width by about 15 

 in length, and the discoidal variety ranges 

 from 6 to 15 in. in diameter. The thick- 

 ness does not exceed 1 .V in. The central 

 portion of one face is of ten slightly concave, 

 a few are quite flat on both faces, while a 

 smaller number are doubly convex in a 

 slight degree. The margins are square or 

 roundish in section. With rare excep- 

 tions the periphery of the discoidal plates 

 is notched or scalloped. In many casesone 

 or more engraved lines or grooves encircle 

 the face of the ])late near the margin, and 

 not infrequently the marginal notches 

 extend as shalk)w grooves inward over 



the surface of the plate, terminating 

 against the outer encircling band, or con- 

 nect as loops forming what may be re- 

 garded as reversed scallops. The most 

 striking feature of these i^lates, occurring 

 perhaps in one case in ten, is certain 

 engraved designs occupying the reverse 

 side of the plate, the grinding surface 

 being regarded as the obverse. These 

 subjects are undoubtedly of mythologic 

 origin and include highly conventional 

 representations of the human hand, the 

 open eye, the rattlesnake, death's-head 

 symbols, etc. The rectangular plates have 

 notches or scallops at the ends only, and 

 the surface, excepting in the Ohio sjieci- 

 mens (which are tentatively included in 

 this group), has no embellishment other 

 than simjile engraved lines extending 

 across the plate near the ends or continu- 

 ing around the four sides just inside the 

 border. 



The most noteworthy of the rectangu- 

 lar plates are the Cincinnati tablet, from 

 a mound in Cincinnati, Ohio, described by 



