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lived in brush shelters while hunting and 

 collecting food. Their social organization 

 was rather loose, the authority of the 

 chief or leader being but nominal. Like 

 the Shasta, whom they resembled in many 

 of their customs and practices, it was not 

 rare for a woman to be a shaman or 

 priest. They had but few religious cere- 

 monies and dances, but like the INIaidu 

 had an elaborate creation myth in which 

 the coyote played the most important 

 role. Very few individuals of the family 

 remain. Some of them were removed to 

 Round Valley res., Cal., and these, with 

 some natives from Potter valley, num- 

 bered 34 in 1889. (r. b. d. f. w. h.) 

 Mo-e-twas.— Palmer in Ind. Aff. Rep., 470, 1854. 

 Palaihnih.— Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 218, 

 184(;. Palaiks.— Ibid., 199. Pitt river Indians.— 

 Russell (IS.iS) in H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th Cong., 3d 

 sess., 74, 1857. Yuca's. — Ibid. ( = ' enemies'). 



Falakahu. A division of the Umpqua 

 according to Parker (Jour., 257, 1840); 

 not identified, but evidently either Atha- 

 pascan or Yakonan. 



Palaquesson. A village or tribe visited 

 by La Salle in Feb. 1687, w. of Brazos 

 r., Texas, having a chief named Pala- 

 quechaure. According to La Salle the 

 speech of the people resembled that of 

 the Ceni ( Asini, Hasinai=Caddo) whom 

 he had visited the year before. Joutel 

 states that the Palaquesson had no fixed 

 dwelling place, but hunted over aconsider- 

 able stretch of country, yet when the 

 people came to a fertile tract they settled 

 there, the men preparingthe soil for plant- 

 ing and the women sowing the maize. So 

 long as the crops were good the i)eople 

 remained sedentary, but when these 

 failed hunting was resumed, at which 

 times they divided into groups to insure 

 greater success. It is probable that the 

 French encountered these people during 

 one of their hunting periods, as Douay 

 says they were in 10 villages. They 

 knew the Spaniards, from whom they 

 obtained horses, and were allies of the 

 Ceni, joining their war excursions to the 

 s. and E. 



The houses of the Palaquesson were of 

 dried grass. On the death of an occupant 

 the dwellingwas burned and the survivors 

 erected a new one on another site. Men 

 and women tattooed their faces in lines and 

 their bodies with plant and animal figures. 

 Their boats were similar to those used 

 on the Missouri — a skin stretched over a 

 light framework of wood. Nothing is 

 known of their beliefs. (a. c. f.) 



Alakea.— Cavelier (1687) quoted by Shea, EaHy 

 Voy., 39, 1861. Palagueques. — Orozco y Berra, 

 Geofc., 293, 1864. Palaguessons. — Coxe, Carolana, 

 map, 1741. Palaquechaune. — Charlevoix, New 

 France, IV, 90, 1870. Palaquechaure.— .Toutel (1687) 

 in Margry, Dec, in, 305, 1X78. Palaquechone. — 

 Barcia, En.sayo, 271, 1723. Palaquesones.— Ibid., 

 273. Palaquesson. — Douav (1687) quoted by Shea 

 in French. Hist. Coll. La.^ iv, 212, 1852. Palaques- 

 80U8.— McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, in, 81, 



3456— Bull. 30, pt. 2—07 13 



1854. Paloguessens. — Coxe in French, Hist. Coll. 

 La., II, 241, 1850. Palquesson.— Charlevoix, New 

 France, iv, 90, 1870. 



Falatki (Hopi: 'red house')- A pre- 

 historic cliff village in the valley of Oak 

 cr. , in the "Red-rock " country, s. of Flag- 

 staff, Ariz. ; believed to have been one of 

 the stopping places of the Patki or Cloud 

 clans of the Hopi in their migration from 

 the S. — Fewkes in 17th Rep. B. A. E., 

 553-58, 1898. 



Falatkwabi ('red land of the south'). 

 The place inhabited by the Patki or 

 Cloud clans of the Hopi prior to their 

 settlement in Tusayan, n. e. Ariz. The 

 locality is somewhere in the great cactus 

 region of s. Arizona. 



Pa-lat'-kwa-bi. — Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vii, 

 402, 1894, and 17th Rep. B. A. E., 568, 1898. Palat- 

 kwapi.— Voth, Traditions of the Hopi, 47, 1905. 



Paleolithic implements. The term ap- 

 plied to implements, usually of stone, 

 belonging to the Paleolithic age as first 

 defined in Europe and afterward identi- 

 fied in other countries. In America the 

 Paleolithic, as chronologically distinct 

 from the Neolithic age, is not established, 

 and the more primitive forms of imple- 

 ments, corresponding in general to the 

 Paleolithic implements of Europe, can be 

 properly referred to only as of Paleolithic 

 type. In this connection it should be 

 noted that implements of the most primi- 

 tive type were made and used by the 

 American tribes, whatsoever their stage 

 of culture progress. See Antiquity, Neo- 

 lithic age. (w. h. h.) 



Paleuyami. A Yokuts (Mariposan) 

 tribe, now extinct, formerly living on 

 Poso cr., Cal. Recorded by Powers, 

 under the name Paleummi, as the Yokuts 

 name of a tribe related to the Paiute. 

 Their dialect was quite different from 

 that of the other Yokuts tribes. See 

 Altinin. 



Boder'wiumi. — Hoffman in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, 

 XXIII, 301, 1886. Pal-e'-um-mi.— Powers in Cont. 

 N. A. Ethnol., iii, 393, 1877. Paleuyami.— Kroeber 

 in Univ. Cal. Pub., Am. Ethnol. and Archaeol., ii, 

 5, 1907. 



Palewa {pe-h-wa' , 'turkey'). A gens of 

 the Shawnee. 



Pa-la-wa'.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 168, 1877. Palewa.— 

 Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1906. 



Palin. A former Luiseno village in 

 lower San LviisRey valley, San Diego co., 

 Cal. (Grijalva, 1795, cited by Bancroft, 

 Hist. Cal., I, 563, 1886). Possibly iden- 

 tical with the present Pala (q. v.), in 

 which event the name was seemingly 

 corrupted by the Spaniards. 



Palisades. See Fortification and Defense. 



Palisema. A district w. of the Missis- 

 sippi, five days' march from the province 

 of Coligoa; visited in 1541 by De Soto's 

 troops. — Gentl. of P^lvas ( 1557) in French, 

 Hist. Coll. La., ii, 178, 1850. 



Palladium. This term was the name of 

 thestatue of thegoddess Pallas or Minerva, 



