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Feixolde. Mentioned as a pueblo of the 

 province of Atripuy (q.v. ), in the vicinity 

 of the lower Rio Grande, New Mexico, 

 in 1598.— Onate (1598) in Doc. Inod., xvi, 

 115, 1871. 



Peixtan. A former Shawnee or Nanti- 

 coke village on or near the lower Susque- 

 hanna, in Dauphin co.. Pa., possibly on 

 the site of the present Paxton or Paxton- 

 ville. — Evans (1707) quoted by Day, Pa., 

 391, 1843. 



Pekaist {PE^qaist, 'white stone'). A 

 village of the Spences Bridge band of the 

 Ntlakyapamuk, on the s. side of Thomp- 

 son r., 32 m. above Lytton, Brit. Col.; 

 pop. 5 in 1897 (the last time the name 

 appears), including Pemainus. 

 Pakeist.— Can. Ind. Aff., 230, 1886. PE'qaist.— 

 Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 173, 1900. 

 'P'kai'st.— Hill-Tout In Rep. Ethnol. Surv. Can., 4, 

 1899. Pukaist'.— Dawson in Trans. Roy. See. Can. 

 1891, sec. II, 44, 1892. 



Pekan. A name of the fisher {Mustela 

 pennanti). The word is used by Charlevoix 

 (Nouv. France, iii, 134, 1744) and came 

 into English through Canadian French, 

 where it occurs also as pecan. It seems 

 to be of Algonquian origin, though not 

 western, for the animal is called in Chip- 

 pewa otchig, in CveeotcJieJ:. It is referred 

 by some to an Abnaki pekane, mentioned 

 by Rasles, which Trumbull ( Natick Diet., 

 Bull. 25, B. A. E., 260, 1903) thinks means 

 this animal. (a. f. c.) 



Pekickery. See Hickory. 



Pekoinoke, A village of the Nanticoke 

 still existing in Maryland in 1755. — Mt 

 Johnson conf. (1755) in N. Y. Doc. Col. 

 Hist., VI, 983, 1855. 



Pekwan. A Yurok village on lower 

 Klamath r., at the mouth of Pekwan cr., 

 N. w. Cal. 



Pack- wans.— McKee (1851) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d 

 Cong., spec, sess., 162, 1853. Pahk-wans. — Meyer, 

 Nach dem Sacramento, 282, 1855. Pak-wan. — 

 McKee op. cit., 194. Pec-quan.— Gibbs (1851) in 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, iii, 138, 1853. Pek'-wan.— 

 Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., iii, 44, 1S77. Tirip'- 

 ama. — A. L. Kroeber, inf n, 1904 (Karok name). 



Pekwiligii (possibly ' place of the Picu- 

 ris people'). A former pueblo of the 

 Jemez in New Mexico, the exact site of 

 which is not known. 



Pe-cuil-a-gui. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, 

 IV, 207, 1892. Pe'-kwil-i-gi-i'.— Hodge, field notes, 

 B. A. E., 1895. 



Pekwuteu. A Yurok village on lower 

 Klamath r., on the tongue of land jutting 

 out between it and the Trinity where 

 they join, opposite Weitspus (Weitch- 

 pec), N. w. Cal. It is called also Pekwu- 

 tutl.— A. L. Kroeber, infn, 1905. 



Pelchiu. Mentioned as a pueblo of New 

 Mexico in 1598, possibly Keresan. 



Pelchin.— Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 136, 1889 

 (misquoting Onate). Pelchiu.— Onate (1598) in 

 Doc. In6d., xvi, 115, 1871. 



Pelheli (Pe'lQeli). Said by the Kwan- 

 tlen to have been a division of their peo- 

 ple who settled on the Pacific opposite 

 Alert bay, Brit. Col. Probably, as Hill- 



Tout suggests (Ethnol. Surv. Can., 55, 

 1902) , they were identical with the Bel- 

 lacoola. 



Pelkatchek (' wherewith one catches 

 fat'). A village of the Ntshaautin on 

 Tchestata lake, Brit. Col. 

 Pel'catzek. — Morice in Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., 109, 

 1892. Pe-x"ka-tcek. — Morice, Notes on W. Den6s, 

 25, 1893. 



Pelones (Span.: 'the hairless ones'). 

 Mentioned by Kivera (Diario, leg. 2602, 

 1736) as a tribe or village apparently 

 near the lower Rio Grande in s. Texas. 

 Probably Coahuiltecan. Mota Pad ilia 

 (Conq. Nueva Galicia, 514, 1870) men- 

 tioned the Pelones in 1742 as a people 

 connected with the missions of Nuevo 

 Leun, ]\Iexico. 



Pemainus {PEmaVnus: according to 

 Teit, 'the flat underneath or near the 

 brow or steep,' because a low tiat ex- 

 tends along the river here for some dis- 

 tance; according to Hill-Tout, 'grassy 

 hills'). A village of the Spences Bridge 

 band of Ntlakyapamuk, on the s. side of 

 Thompson r., 28 m. above Lytton, Brit. 

 Col. Pop. 5 in 1897, including Pekaist. 

 PEmai'nus. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 

 173, 1900. Pimai'niis.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Ethnol. 

 Surv. Can., 4, 1899. Piminos.— Can. Ind. Aff., 196, 

 1885. 



Pemaquid (?'it is precipitous land.' — 

 Hewitt ) . An Abnaki village in 1614 about 

 the present Pemaquid, Lincoln co.. Me. 

 Fort Charles was built there in 1677, after 

 the English occupancy became prominent 

 in the colonial history of New England. 

 It was taken and burned by the Abnaki 

 on Aug. 2, 1689. 



Panaquid.— Strachey (ca. 1612), Va.. 27,1849. Pema- 

 quid. — Strachey, ibid., 169 (the river). Pemma- 

 quid.— Smith (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d 

 s., VI, 97, 1837. Pemmayquid.— Smith, map (ca. 1614) 

 in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 162, 1857. Penaquid.— 

 Smith (1631) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., in, 20, 

 1833. 



Pematuning ('at the Wry-mouth's.' — 

 Hewitt). A village, probably of the 

 Delawares, near Shenango, Pa., in 1764. — 

 Hutchin's map (1764) in Smith, Bouquet's 

 Exped., 1766. 



Pemberton Meadows. The local name 

 for a body of Lower Lillooet living n. of 

 Lillooet lake, Brit. Col. ; pop. 261 in 1906. 



Pembina. A Canadian name for the 

 acid fruit of Viburnum opulus, the high- 

 bush cranberry, a plant growing in low 

 ground, along streams, from New Bruns- 

 wick, far westward, and s. to Pennsyl- 

 vania. The word is a corruption of Cree 

 nipimindn, 'watered-berry,' i. e. the fruit 

 of a plant growing in, or laved by, water; 

 not ' water- berry, ' as has been stated, since 

 that would be nipimin; and, besides, the 

 fruit is not watery. The name of the 

 fruit is derived from the habitat of the 

 plant that bears it. (w. k. g. ) 



Pemmican. A food preparation (also 

 spelled pemican) used in the wilds of the 

 northern parts of North America, and 



