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vation at the head of Wicomico r. The 

 following is an account of a religious 

 ceremony in their temple, from the Re- 

 latio Itineris of White: "On an ap- 

 pointed day all the men and women of 

 every age, from several districts, gathered 

 together round a large fire; the younger 

 ones stood nearest the fire, behind these 

 stood those who were older. Then they 

 threw deer's fat on the fire, and lifting 

 their hands to heaven and raising their 

 voices they cried out Yaho! Yaho! Then 

 making room some one brings forward 

 quite a large bag; in the bag is a pipe and 

 a powder which they call Potu. The 

 pipe is such a one as is used among us for 

 smoking tobacco, but much larger; then 

 the bag is carried round the fire and the 

 boys and girls follow it, singing alter- 

 nately with tolerably pleasant voices, 

 Yaho ! Yaho ! Having completed the cir- 

 cuit the pipe is taken out of the bag and 

 the powiler called Potu is distributed to 

 each one as they stand near; this is 

 lighted in the i)ipeand each one drawing 

 smoke from the pipe blows it over the 

 several members of his body and conse- 

 crates them." 



Patuxents.— Bozman, Md., 11, 421, 1837. Pautvix- 

 untes.— Smith (1629), Va., I, 135, repr. 1819. 



Patuxent. The principal village of the 

 Patuxent, situated on the e. bank of Pa- 

 tuxent r., Md. Capt. John Smith esti- 

 mated the number of warriors at 40 in 

 1608. 



Barchuxem.— White (1634), Relatio Itineris, 41, 

 1874. Barcluxen. — Wliite quoted hv Shea, Cath. 

 Miss., 487, 1855. Patuxent.— Writer of 1639 quoted 

 in Relatio Itineris, 63, 1874. Patuxunt. — Yong 

 (1634) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., ix, 105, 1871. 

 Pawtuxunt.— Smith (1629), Va., i, 118, repr. 1819. 



Patuxet (prob. Pdiul-esef, 'at the little 

 fall. ' — Gerard). A Massachuset village on 

 the site of Plymouth, Mass. It was depop- 

 ulated by the great pestilence of 1617, 

 which seems not to have extended much 

 farther south. 



Acawmuck. — Smith, map (ca. 1616), cited in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll. ,2ds., Ill, 175, 1846 ('to go by water': 

 used in describing a place more easily reached by 

 water than by land). Accomack.— Smith (1616), 

 ibid., 3d s., vi, 108, 1837. Accoomeek.— Wiiithrop 

 (ca. 1625), ibid., in, 175, 1846. Apaum.— Williams' 

 deed (ca. 1635) in R. I. Col. Rec, 1, 18, 1856 (Nar- 

 ragansetname). Ompaam. — Cotton (1708) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s.. 11,^232, 1830 (Massachuset 

 name). Patuckset.— Pratt (1662), ibid., 4th s., iv, 

 480, 1858. Patusuc— Kendall, Trav., ii, 45, 1819. 

 Patuxet.— Smith (1629), Va., II, 183, repr. 1819. 

 Patuxite.— Dermer (1620) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 4th s.,iii, 97, 1856. Patuyet.— Dee in Smith (1629), 

 Va., II, 228, repr. 1819. TJmpame.— Writer of 

 1815 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., ill, 175, 1846 

 (so called by Mashpee Indians). 



Patwin ('man,' 'person'). A name 

 adopted by Powers to designate a division 

 of the Copehan family (q. v. ). They oc- 

 cupied the area extending from Stony cr. , 

 Colusa CO., to Suisun bay, Solano co., 

 Cal., and from Sacramento r. to the 

 boundary of the Kulanapan family on 

 the w., but excluding the so-called 

 Coyote Valley Indians on the headwaters 



of Putah cr. in the s. part of Lake co. , 

 determined bj' Barrett to be Moquelum- 

 nan and not Copehan. The dialects of 

 this division differ considerably from 

 those of the Wintun. Powers believed 

 the Patwin were once very numerous. 

 The manners and customs of the tribes 

 in the interior and on the mountains dif- 

 fered greatly from those near the shore. 

 On the plains and in the valleys in build- 

 ing a dwelling they excavated the soil for 

 about 2 ft, banked up enough earth to 

 keep out the water, and threw the remain- 

 der on the roof in a dome. In the moun- 

 tains, where wood was more abundant 

 and rain more frequent, no roofing of 

 earth was used. In war the Patwin used 

 bows and arrows and flint-pointed spears; 

 no scalps were taken, but the victors are 

 said often to have decapitated the most 

 beautiful maiden they captured. They 

 had a ceremony for "raising evil spirits" 

 and dances to celebrate a good harvest of 

 acorns or a successful catch of fish. The 

 dead were usually buried, though crema- 

 tion was practised to some extent by some 

 of the tribes. For the Patwin villages, 

 see Copehayi Family. 



Patchawe. — Powers in'Cont. N. A. Ethnol., in, 95, 

 1877 (Chimariko name). Patwae. — Ibid. j?at- 

 weens. — Powers in Overland Month., xiii, 643, 

 1874. Pat-win. — Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., 

 Ill, 218, 1877. 



Patzau. A tribe, probably Coahuilte- 

 can, mentioned as early as 1690 by Mas- 

 sanet in his list of tribes met between the 

 presidio of Coahuila and the Hasinai 

 country of Texas. The tribes were given 

 in the list in geographical order, and the 

 indication is that the Patzau then lived 

 N. E. of the Rio Grande (Velasco, Dicta- 

 men Fiscal, Nov. 30, 1716, in Mem. de 

 NuevaEspana, xxvii, 183, MS.). In the 

 following year Massanet found them 11 

 leagues e. of Nueces r. with the Pataguos, 

 Pachales, and others (ibid., 94). This 

 tribe is evidently distinct from the Putzai 

 as well as from the Pachales, but it is dif- 

 ficult to distinguish some of the variants 

 of these two names. Some of the Patzau 

 entered San Francisco Solano mission on 

 the Rio Grande as early as 1712, and be- 

 tween 1723 and 1750 a number of them 

 were baptized at San Antonio de Yalero 

 ( Valero Bautismos, passim) . (h. e. b. ) 

 Pacha. — Valero Bautismos, 1730, partida 327, MS. 

 Pacha. — Ibid., 1737, partida 433. Pachac. — Ibid., 

 1735, partida 407. Pachai.— Ibid., 1732. pariida363. 

 Pachaug.— Ibid., 1731, partida351. Pachaxa. — Ibid., 

 172S, ])artida 227. Paisau.— Ibid., 1723, partida — . 

 Paiztat.— Ibid., 1733, partida 378. Pasaju.— Ibid., 

 1728, partida 239. Pasxa.— Ibid., partida 432. 

 Pattsau.— Massanet(1690)in Dictamen Fi.scal.Nov. 

 30, 171ti, MS. ( mi.scopv ) . Patzar. — ValeroBautismos, 

 1727, partida 178. Paza.— Ibid., 1741, partida 540. 

 Pazac— Il)id., 1732, partida 367. Pazajo. — Ibid., 

 1733, partida 371. Pazaju. — Ibid., partida 374. 

 Pazaug. — Ibid., 1732, partida 356. Pazhajo. — Ibid., 

 1712, partida 7. Psaapsau. — Ibid., 1730, partida 

 319 (identical?). 



Paughaden. See Pauhagen. 



Paugie. See Porgy. 



