BCLL. 30] 



PARCHED CORN INDIANS PARKER 



203 



Dictamen Fiscal, Nov. 30, 1716, ibid., 

 183). (h. e. b.) 



Pachaques. — Fernando del Bosque (1675), op. cit. 

 Parchacas. — Massanet, lti91, op. cit. 



Parched Corn Indians. A name indef- 

 initely applied. "In most of our Ameri- 

 can colonies there yet remain a few of 

 the natives, who formerly inhabited those 

 extensive countries . . . We call 

 them 'Parched-corn-Indians,' because 

 they chiefly use it for bread, are civilized 

 and live mostly by planting." — Adair, 

 Am. Inds., 343, 1775. 



Parchinas. Mentioned Ijy Rivera 

 (Diario, leg. 2602, 1736) as a tribe or 

 village apparently near the lower Rio 

 Grande in s. Texas. Probably Coahuil- 

 tecan. 



Parfleche (pron. par^-Jieslt). The ordi- 

 nary skin box of the Plains and Rocky 

 mtn. tribes, made of stiff-dressed raw- 

 hide from which the hair has been re- 

 moved. It is usually of rectangular 

 shape, varying from 2 by 3 ft in size for 

 the largest boxes — used as clothes trunks, 

 for storing food, etc. — to small pouches 



PARFLECHE PACKING-CASE OF THE PLAINS TRIBES. ( Mason) 



for holding paints, mirrors, or other toilet 

 articles. Those used for storing cloth- 

 ing are made in pairs, two to each bed 

 in the tipi, by trimming the rawhide to 

 proper form while still pliable, folding 

 over the edges upon each other, and 

 fastening them in place by means of 

 strings of skins passed through holes near 

 the sides. The surface is painted with 

 designs in various colors, and at times a 

 fringe is added. Round boxes, somewhat 

 resembUng a quiver in shape, are made 

 of the same material for holding feathers 

 and decorative war-bonnets. In other 

 sections baskets of various kinds, boxes of 

 bark or matting, or bags of grass or soft- 

 dressed skin, took the place of parfleche. 

 The word is of doubtful origin, but as 

 commonly spelled appears in French nar- 

 ratives as early as 1700, and is probably 

 from some old French root, possibly from 

 parer ' to parry, 'feche 'arrow, ' in reference 

 originally to the shield or body-armor of 

 rawhide. See Boxes and Chests, Rawhide, 

 Receptacles, Skin-dressing. (j. m. ) 



Pariscar. One of the four divisions of 

 the Crow tribe, according to Lewis and 

 Clark. 



Pa-rees-car.— Lewis and Clark, Discov., 40, 1806; 

 Orlg. Jour. Lewis and Clark, vi, 103, 1905. 



Parka. A dress of bird orseal skin worn 

 as an outside garment by the Eskimo of 

 the N. W. coast of America; from the name 

 of this article in the Aleut dialect of the 

 Eskimo language. (a. f. c. ) 



Parkeenaum ( Par-kee-na-um, ' water peo- 

 ple ' ) . Given by Neighbors ( Schoolcraft, 

 Ind. Tribes, ii, 127, 1852) as a division of 

 the Comanche. The name, which is not 

 recognized by the Comanche, may possi- 

 bly have been intended for Pagatsu, q. v. 



Parker, Eli Samuel. A mixed -blood 

 Seneca of the Wolf clan, son of Chief 

 William Parker and grandson of the 

 celebrated Red Jacket; born on the 

 Tonawanda res., N. Y., in 1828. His 

 Seneca name was Hasanoanda, ' Coming 

 to the Front,' but on receiving the ofh- 

 cial title Deionin'hoga'^wg" ('it holds 

 the door open), when he became 

 eighth chief of the tribe, he laid the 

 other aside. Parker was educated in 

 the common schools, studied civil engi- 

 neering, and at the outbreak of the Civil 

 War was employed as engineer on a Gov- 

 ernment building at Galena, 111., then 

 the home of Ulysses S. Grant. A friend- 

 ship sprung up between the two which 

 continued after both joined the Union 

 Army at the outbreak of the Civil War. 

 Parker's distinguished service in the 

 Vicksburg campaign led to his selection 

 by Grant as a member of his staff. In 

 May, 1863, he became assistant adjutant- 

 general, with the rank of captain, and 

 was afterward secretary to Gen. Grant 

 until the close of the war. On Apr. 9, 

 1865, he became brigadier -general of 

 volunteers; in 1866, a first lieutenant of 

 cavalry in the United States Army, and 

 on Mar. 2, 1867, captain, major, lieutenant- 

 colonel, and brigadier-general. By rea- 

 son of their intimate relations, as well 

 as of Parker's excellent handwriting. 

 Grant intrusted him while his secretary 

 with both his personal and official cor- 

 respondence. It was thus that at Lee's 

 surrender Parker engrossed the articles 

 of capitulation that were signed by 

 Grant and accepted by the Confeder- 

 ate general. Parker resigned from the 

 Army in 1869 to accept from President 

 Grant an appointment as Commissioner 

 of Indian Affairs. He retired from pub- 

 lic life in 1871, and practised his profes- 

 sion until his death, at Fairfield, Conn., 

 Aug. 21, 1895. General Parker was an 

 intimate friend of Lewis H. Morgan, the 

 ethnologist, and his efficient coworker 

 in preparing his ' ' League of the Iroquois, ' ' 

 first published in 1851. "The recog- 



