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Earlv Vov., 58, 1S61. Peauguicheas. — McKeiinev 

 and "Half, Ind. Tribes, iii, 79, 18.>I. Pecankee- 

 shaws.— Hough in Indiana Geol. Rep., map, 1883. 

 Pehenguichias.— McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 m, 80, 1854. Pelagisia. — Gat.schet, Shawnee MS., 

 B. A. E., 1879 (Shawnee name; plural, Pelagis- 

 iagi). Peouanguichias. — Bacqueville de la Poth- 

 erie, II, 335, 17.53. Piancashaws. — Vater, Mlth., 

 pt. 3, sec. 3, 351, 181(). Piangeshaw. — Jones, Ojeb- 

 way Inds., 178, 1861. Pianguichia. — Coxe, Caro- 

 lana, map, 1741. Pianguisha.— Croghan (1767) 

 in N. y. Doc. Col. Hi.st. , vil, 208, 1856. Pianka- 

 shaws. — Johnson (1763), ibid. ,583. Piankaskouas. — 

 Tailha!!, Perrot M6m., 222, note, 1864. Pianke- 

 shas.— McCoy, Ann. Reg., 21, 1836. Pianke- 

 shaws.— German Flats conf. (1770) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., Viii, 233, 18.57. Piankichas.— Vater, 

 Mith.,pt. 3, sec. 3, 361,1816. Piankishas.— Croghan 

 ( 17.59) quoted by Jefferson, Notes, 146, 1825. Pian- 

 kishaws. — Harri.son ( 1814 ) quoted bv Drake, Tecum- 

 seh, 160, 18.52. Piankshaws.— De Butts (1795) in 

 Am. St. Papers. Ind. Aff., l, 582, 1832. Pianquicha.— 

 Smith, Bouquet's Exped., 64, 1766. Pianquiches. — 

 Perkins and Peck, Annals of the West, 687, 1850. 

 Pianquishaws. — Croghan (17.59) quoted by Rupp, 

 West.Penn., 146, 1846. Pi-auke-shaws.— Beckwith 

 in Indiana Geol. Rep., 41, 1883. Piawkashaws. — 

 Vater, Mith., pt. 3, sec. 3, 344, 1816. Pinkeshaws.— 

 Kelton, Ft Mackinac, 38, 1884. Piouanguichias. — 

 Bacqueville de la Potherie, ii, 346, 1753. Plan- 

 kishaws.— Dalton ( 1783) In Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. ,1st 

 s., X, 123, 1809 (misprint). Poiiankikias.— Tailhan, 

 Perrot M(?m., 222, note, 1864. Pyankashees. — Es- 

 nauts and Rapilly Map, 1777. Pyankeeshas. — 

 Croghan (1765) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vii, 781, 

 1856. Pyankehas.— Croghan (176.5) quoted in Am. 

 Jour. Geol., 272, 1831. Pyankesnaws.— Croghan 

 (1765), ibid., 265. Pyankishaws.— Volney, View 

 of U. S. A., 362, 1804. Tukachohas.— Loskiel (1794) 

 quoted by Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 336, 

 1872. 



Piankatank. A tribe of the Powhatan 

 confederacy on Piankatank r., Va. They 

 numbered about 200 in 1608. Their prin- 

 cipal village, also called Piankatank, was 

 on the river of the same name in Middle- 

 sex CO. 



Payankatanks. — Simons in Smith (1629), Va., I, 

 160, 1819. Payankatonks.— Jefferson, Notes, 138, 

 1801. Piankatanks.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 9, 

 1848. 



Piasa (probably cognate with Cree 

 piyesiw, referring to an imaginary bird, a 

 name of the thunderbird, and also cognate 

 \vith the Chippewa 6me5.'«, 'alargebird.' — 

 Hewitt). Thenainegiventoa prehistoric 

 pictograph formerly on the face of the 

 rocky bluff where Alton, HI., is now situ- 

 ated. It was first mentioned and described 

 by Marquette, in the account of his journey 

 down the Mississippi in 1673, who, how- 

 ever, speaks of two (Jes. Eel. 1673-75, 

 Thwaitesed., lix, 139, 1900; Shea, Discov. 

 Miss., 39, 1852): "While skirting some 

 rocks, which by their height and length 

 inspired awe, we saw upon one of them 

 two painted monsters which at first made 

 us afraid, and upon which the boldest 

 savages dare not long rest their eyes. 

 They are as large as a calf; they have 

 horns on their heads like those of deer, 

 a horrible look, red eyes, a beard like a 

 tiger's, a face somewhat like a man's, a 

 body covered with scales, and so long a 

 tail that it winds all around the body, 

 passing above the head and going back 

 between the legs, ending in a fish's tail. 

 Green, red, and black are the three colors 



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composing the picture." Marquette fur- 

 ther says that the painting was well done. 

 Douay , who visited the locality on his jour- 

 ney from Texas in 1686, considers this de- 

 scription as exaggerated, saying: "This 

 frightful monster is a horse painted on a 

 rock with matachia [an old term for paint] 

 and some other wild beasts made by the 

 Indians" (Shea, Discov. Miss., 223, 1852). 

 He says he reached them without diflB- 

 culty, and adds: "The truth is that 

 Miamis pursued by Mitchigamias having 

 been drowned here the Indians since then 

 offer tobacco to these figures. ' ' St Cosme, 

 who journeyed down the Mississippi in 

 1699, says that the figures were then almost 

 erased (Shea, Early Voy., 66, 1861). In 

 1836 John Russell published what he 

 claimed to be the Indian "tradition of 

 the Piasa," which is copied by McAdams 

 in his Records of Ancient Races, 1887. 

 The tradition is admitted to be chiefly 

 imaginary, and is substantially the same 

 as that given by Jones (Illinois and the 

 West, 54-56, 1838). McAdams, who had 

 studied the literature and local traditions 

 relating to these figures, states that a figure 

 made in 1825 by a Mr Dennis represented 

 the animal as winged, and adopts this 

 form in his book. The figure as seen by 

 Marquette appears to have been almost 

 precisely of the form and detail of the 

 "medicine animal of the Winnebago" 

 given by Schoolcraft (Ind. Tribes, ii, 

 pi. 55, fig. 224, 1852), and hence is 

 probably connected with some "myth. 

 The latter author says the figure was 

 drawn for him by Little Hill, a Winne- 

 bago chief, who stated that the animal 

 was seen only by medicine-men. Park- 

 man (Discov. Great West, 59, 1874) says 

 that when he passed the place in 1867 

 "a part of the rock had been quarried 

 away, and instead of Marquette's mon- 

 ster, it bore a huge advertisement." See 

 also Mallery in lOth Rep. B. A. E., 77-79, 

 1893; Armstrong, The Piaza, or, the 

 Devil among the Indians, 1887; Bavliss in 

 Rec. of the Past, vii, pt. 2, 1908. (c. t.) 



Piato. Mentioned as a division of the 

 Pima who inhabited the region of Ca- 

 borca and Tubutama, in Sonora, Mexico 

 (Orozco y Berra, Geog., 348, 1864). 

 They were really a branch of the Papago, 

 and probably the same as the Soba. 



Piattuiabbe (Pi-at-tuV-ub-be). A tribe of 

 the Paviotso, consisting of five bands, 

 near Belmont, s. central Nevada; pop. 

 249 in 1873.— Powell in Ind. Aff. Rep. 

 1873. 52, 1874. 



Piba. The Tobacco phratry of the Hopi, 

 which comprises the Piba and Chongyo 

 (Pipe) clans. According to Stephen 

 these form part of the Rabbit (Tabo) 

 phratry. The Piba people were strong 

 at Awatobi before its destruction. 

 Piba.— Bourke, Snake Dance, 117, 1884. Pi-ba nyu- 

 mu.— Fewkes in Am. Anthrop., vil, 405, 1894 



