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To Commissioner Manypenny, who was 

 with him when he died, he presented his 

 pipe and tobacco pouch, desiring him to 

 take them to Washington. He was 

 buried, Sept. 9, in the Catholic cemetery 

 at La Pointe. 



A Chippewa chief of the St Croix band, 

 also named "Peezhickee," or Buffalo, 

 signed tlie treaties of Prairie du Chien, 

 Wis., Aug. 19, 1825; Fond du Lac, Wis., 

 Aug. 5, 1826, and St Peters r.. Wis., July 

 29,1837. . (c. T.) 



Pkhulluwaaitthe {Pkqul-W -wa-ai-V q'i) . 

 A former Yaquina village on the s. side 

 of Yaquina r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. 

 Am. Folk-lore, iii, 229, 1890. 



Pkipsissewa. See Pipsissewa. 



Pkuuniukhtauk {PJcu-u^ -ni-uqt-au¥ ) . A 

 former Yaquina village on the s. side of 

 Yaquina r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, iir, 229, 1890. 



Plaikni ( P'laikni, ' uplanders ' ) . A col- 

 lective name given by the Klamath to all 

 the Indians on Sprague r. , above and be- 

 low Yaneks, on the Klamath res., s. w. 

 Oreg. They comprise the majority of the 

 Modoc, many Klamath, and the Shosho- 

 nean Walpapi and Yahuskin settled in 

 these parts. — Gatschet in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., II, pt. I, XXXV, 1890. 

 Uplanders. — Gatschet, ibid. 



Plaquemine. See Persimmon. 



Plaques. See Receptacles. 



Playwickey ('town of the turkey'). 

 A former Delaware village in Bucks co. , 

 Pa. It probably belonged to the Una- 

 lachtigo division, and may have been on 

 Neshaminy cr. 



Planwikit. — Brinton, Lenape Leg., 39, 1885. Play- 

 wickey. — Deed of 1737 quoted by Day, Penn., 

 507, 1843. 



Pluggy's Town. A former village, named 

 from its chief, which occupied the site of 

 Delaware, Delaware co., Ohio, in 1776. 

 It belonged to a marauding band of In- 

 dians, who seem to have been chiefly 

 Mingo. See Butterfield, Washington- 

 Irvine Corn, 9, 1882. 



Plummets. A group of prehistoric pen- 

 dant-like objects of stone, bone, shell, 

 hematite ore, copper, and other materials 

 the origin and use of which have been 

 much discussed ( see Problematical objects) . 

 The name plummet is applied because of 

 the resemblance of many specimens to 

 the ordinary builder's plummet, but the 

 shapes are greatly diversified, numerous 

 variants connecting the well-established 

 type forms with other groups of objects, 

 as net sinkers, club heads, pestles, bird- 

 stones, boat-stones, pendant ornaments, 

 etc. Numerous specimens are rudely 

 shaped, but thegreater number are highly 

 finished and symmetric, and often grace- 

 ful in contour. Eccentric forms are some- 

 times encountered, especially in Florida, 

 and rather rarely the' body i.s carved to 



(moohe) 



represent in formal fashion the head of 

 a duck. LTsually there is a shallow en- 

 circling groove; occasionally there are 

 two, at the upper end; and in rare cases 

 one or more grooves or ridges encircle the 

 body of the longer specimens at different 

 points, giving a spindle-like effect. Some 

 are grooved at both ends, while many ter- 

 minate below in conical or nipple-like 

 points. A few are truncated or 

 have a slight depression at the 

 upper end, and rare specimens of 

 the long slender variety have one 

 side flat or slightly hollowed out, 

 suggesting the form of a dugout 

 canoe. Perforations for suspen- 

 sion are observed in numerous 

 cases, indicating affiliation with 

 ordinary pendant ornaments, 

 while some well-finished speci- 

 mens have neither grooves nor 

 perforations. 



The plummets are widely dis- 

 tributed over the country, occur- 

 ring in great profusion in Florida, 

 in the Mississippi valley, and in 

 California, and are often found 

 associated with human remains in burials. 

 Some were undoubtedly M^orn on the 

 person, after the manner of pendant orna- 

 ments, but there is good reason to believe 

 that many of them were devoted to magic 

 and ceremony, be- 

 ing invested by 

 their owners with 

 extraordinary 

 powers as charms, 

 talismans, amu- 

 lets, fetishes, etc., 

 capable in one way 

 or another of ex- 

 erting profound influence on the wel- 

 fare of the individual, the society, the 

 clan, or the tribe. The Indians of s. 

 California, in whose possession some of 

 these objects are found, believe them to 

 be helpful in war and 

 the chase, in producing 

 rain, in curing the sick, 

 in games of chance, etc. 

 (Henshaw, Yates). It 

 has been suggested that 

 the original plummets 

 may have been net sink- 

 ers, or other objects 

 having at first only prac- 

 tical functions, which 

 in time came to be re- 

 garded as luck stones or 

 charms, passing gradu- 

 ally into general use as such, with many 

 shades of significance and widely di- 

 vergent forms. It is worthy of note 

 that the aborigines generally are dis- 

 posed to attribute magical significance 

 to all old worked stones as well as to all 



Copper; Flor- 



(moore) 



stone; Florida; 

 . J" (moore) 



a SPECULAR Iron; Louisi- 

 ana (1-4); b Specular 

 iron; Tennessee (i). 



