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of the Pamaque (Solis, Diario, 1767-68, 



MS.). (H. E. B.) 



Pi^canes.— Solis, op. cit. (identical?). Pihni- 

 ques.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 17, 1863 (mis- 

 print). Pihuiques. — Garcia, op. cit., 17tJ0. 



Pihcha. The Skunk clan of the Chua 

 (Snake) phratrv of the Hopi. 

 Pi'h-tca.— Stephen'in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 38, 1891. 



Pihkash, The Young Corn Ear clan of 

 the_Hopi. 



Pihkash. — Dorsey and Voth, Mishongnovi Cere- 

 monies, 175, 1902. 



Piiru. A former Chumashan village 

 on Piru cr. or arroyo emptying into 

 Saticoy r., Ventura co., Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, July 24, 1863. 



Pikakwanarats ( Pi-ka-kwa^-na-rats ) . A 

 division of the Ute, of whom 32 were 

 found in 1873 on the Uinta res., Utah, 

 where they were known under the gen- 

 eral name of Uinta Ute. — Powell in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep. 1873, 51, 1874. 



Pikalps. A former village of the Semi- 

 ahmoo Salish at Camp Semiahmoo, on 

 Semiahmoo bay, n. w. Wash. — Gibbs, 

 Clallam and Lummi, 37, 1863. 



Pikiiltthe {Pl^-ki-ll^-t'^^) . A former 

 Yaquina village on the s. side of Yaquina 

 r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 III, 229, 1890. 



Pikirlu. An Ita Eskimo winter village 

 on Foulke fjord, n. Greenland. — Mark- 

 ham in Trans. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., 126, 

 1866. 



Fikialak. A winter and spring settle- 

 ment of the Aivilirmiut Eskimo on Depot 

 id., N. E. of Chesterfield inlet, Hudson 

 bay. 

 Pikiulaq.— Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888. 



Pikiutdlek. A southern settlement of 

 the Angmagsalingmiut Eskimo in e. 

 Greenland, who there seek stone for mak- 

 ing lamps and vessels. 



Pikiudtlek.— Nansen, First Crossing, i, 250, 1890. 

 Pikiutdlek. — Meddelelser ora Gronland, x, 369, 

 1888. 



Pikmiktaligmiut. A subdivision of the 

 Unaligmiut Eskimo of Alaska, whose vil- 

 lage is Pikmjktalik. 



Pikmikta'lig-mut. — Dall in Cont. X. A. Ethnol., I, 

 17, 1877. 



Pikmiktalik. An Unaligmiut Eskimo 

 village near the mouth of Pikmiktalik r., 

 Alaska, just n. of C. Romanoff; pop. 10 in 

 1880. 



Pichmichtalik. — Holmberg, Ethnog. Skizz., map, 

 1855. Pietmiektaligmiut.— Baker, Geog. Diet. 

 Alaska, 1902 (Russian spelling). Pikmigtalik. — 

 Whymper, Alaska, 269, 1869. Pikmiktal'ik.— Dall 

 in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., i, 17, 1877. 



Pikta. A coast village of the Kinugu- 

 miut Eskimo near C. Prince of Wales, 

 Alaska. 



Pikhta.— Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Vov., 5th s., 

 XXI, map, 1850. 



Pikyaiawan (Zufii: Fi-k^yai-a-iran, 

 'town of the water-cresses'). An ancient 

 pueblo which, with Kyatsutuma, was 

 the northernmost home of the Snail 

 people and one of the outposts or strong- 

 holds of Matyata (q. v.) that were con- 

 quered by the Zuni in prehistoric times. 

 See Kyamakyakwe. (f. ii. c. ) 



Pilaklikaha. A former Seminole town 

 in the e. part of Sumter co., Fla., near 

 Dade's battle ground of Dec. 28, 1835. 

 A town of the same name is shown on 

 Taylor's war map of 1839. It was burned 

 by the U. S. troojjs in 1836. Here chief 

 Micanopy lived, and the town was often 

 called by his name, from the Creek 

 miko, 'chief; unapa, 'above'. Ft Defi- 

 ance was established here. There is a 

 Micanopy town now in Alachua co., Fla., 

 12 m. s. of Gainesville. (h. w. h. ) 



Inicanopa.— Belton (1836) in Drake. Bk. Inds., bk. 

 4, 77, 1848 (misprint of Micanopa). Inocanopy. — 

 Drake, Ind. Chron., 206, 1836. Micanopy. — Call 

 (1835) in Sen. Doc. 278, 26th Cong., 1st sess., 30, 

 1840. Micanopy's town. — Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 76, 

 1848. Miconopy.— H. R. Doc. 78, 25th Cong., 2d 

 sess., map, 768-69, 1838. Pe-lac-le-ka-ha.— Bell in 

 Morse, Rep. to See. War, 307, 1822. Pelaklekaha.— 

 Scott's map in H. R. Doc. 78, 25th Cong., 2d sess., 

 408-09, 1838. Pelaklikhaha.— Gad.sden (1836), 

 ibid., 399. Pilaklikaha.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 

 4,92,1848. Pinclatchas.— Swan (1791) in School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, v, 262, 1855. Pyaklekaha.— 

 Peni4re quoted bv Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 311, 

 1822. 



Pilalt. A Cowichan tribe on lower 

 Chilliwack r. and part of Eraser r., Brit. 

 Col. According to Hill-Tout they num- 

 bered 25 in 1902. Their villages were 

 Chutil, Kwalewia, Skelautuk, Skwala, 

 and Schachuhil. Boas adds Cheam, but 

 if he is right that town must contain 

 several tribes. 



Pallalts.— Mavne, Brit. Col., 295, 1862. PEla'tlQ.— 

 Boas in Rep. 64th Meeting B. A. A. S., 454, 1894. 

 Pilalt. — Tolmie and Dawson, Vocabs. Brit. Col., 

 120b, 1884. Pila'tlq.— Hill-Tout in Ethnol. Surv. 

 Can., 48, 1902. 



Pilatka ('going into the water'). A 

 former town, probably Seminole, on the 

 w. bank of St Johns r., Fla., n. w. of 

 Drums (now Crescent) lake, on or near 

 the site of the present Palatka. — H. R. 

 Doc. 78, 25th Cong. , 2d sess. , map, 768, 

 1838. 



Pilawa (Pl-la-wd'' , 'turkey'). A gens 

 of the Miami. — Morgan, Anc. Soc, 168, 

 1877. 



Pile dwellings. Primitive dwellers 

 along the shallow margins of the sea, on 

 the banks of bayous, tide-water rivers, 



SEMINOLE HOUSE, FLORIDA. (macCAULEY 



and lands in general subject to inunda- 

 tion found it necessary to raise the floors 

 of their dwellings above the reach of tide 

 and flood. This was done by erecting 

 mounds of earth or shells, or by planting 

 poles or piles in the yielding earth to 

 which floor timbers could be attached at 

 suitable levels. Pile dwellings were ob- 

 served by early Spanish explorers of the 

 Caribbean sea, and Venezuela ( ' Little 



