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Croghan (1759) quoted by Proud, Penn., ii, 296, 

 1798. Putawatimies.— Treaty of 1800 in U. S. Ind. 

 Treat., 373, 1873. Putawatimis.— Ibid. Putawato- 

 mie. — Brown, W. Gaz., 45, 1S17. Putawawtaw- 

 maws.— Dalton (1783) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st 

 s., X, 123. 1809. Pu-te-wa-ta.— Riggs, Dak. Gram, 

 and Diet., 184, 1852 (Sioux form). Pii-te-wa-ta- 

 dag. — Ibid. (Santee form). Putewatimes. — Cro- 

 ghan (1759) quoted by Rupp, W. Penn., app., 132, 

 1846. Putowatomey's. — Croghan (1760) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., ix, 289, 1871. Puttawatti- 

 mies. — Grouseland treaty (1803) in U. S. Ind. 

 Treat., 370, 1873. Puttcotungs.— Beatty, Jour., 63, 

 1798 (misprint). Puttewatamies. — Croghan (1765) 

 in N.Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vii, 781, 1856. Puttowata- 

 mies. — Bouquet (1760) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 4ths.,lx,295,lS71. Puttwatimees. — Croghan (1760), 

 ibid., 262. Tcheshtalalgi.— Gatschet, Koassati MS., 

 B. A. E., 1885 ('watermelon people,' from Creek 

 tchl'stali, 'watermelons': Koassati name adopted 

 from tlie Creeks). TJndatomatendi. — Gatschet, 

 Wyandot MS., B. A. E., 1881 (Wyandot name). 

 Wah-ho'-na-hah.— Dunn, True Ind. Stories, 299, 

 1908 (Miami name). Wahiuiiiaqa. — Uorsey in 

 Cont. N. A. Ethnol.,vi, pt. 2,664, 1890 (Omaha 

 name). Wahiuyaha. — Dorsey, Kansas JNIS. v^ocab., 

 B. A. E., 1S.S2 (Kausa name). W'l-h o-na-hi,. — 

 Long, Exped. St Peter's R., i, 92, 1824 ('tire-mak- 

 ers': Miami name). Wapoos. — La Salle (1680) 

 q^uoted by Parkman, La Salle, 180, 1883 (iden- 

 tical'?). Woraqa. — Dorsey, Tciwere MS. vocab., 

 B. A. E., 1879 (Iowa, Oto, and Missouri name). 

 Wo-ra-qe. — St Cyr, inf'n, 1886 (Winnebago name). 



Potawatotni of Huron. A division of the 

 Potawatomi, formerly living on Huron 

 r., in s. E. Michio^an. Tliey participated 

 in the treaty of Greenville, Ohio, Aug. 3, 

 1795, and they are also specially men- 

 tioned in the treaty of Detroit, Nov. 17, 

 1807. Their number has been small from 

 the time they first came into notice. The 

 population given in 1871 is 50; in 1886, 

 79; in 1888, the last enumeration, 77. An 

 itinerary of about 1770 (Mi('h. Pion. Coll., 

 XIII, 49, 1889) says their village then con- 

 sisted of six large cabins, and gives the 

 distance from Detroit as 40 m. By 1886 

 these Potawatomi had all taken lands 

 in severalty and had become citizens. 

 When the Potawatomi ceded the greater 

 portion of their lands to the United States 

 and moved w. of the Mississippi, this 

 band and some of the tribe living in In- 

 diana refused to join in the movement 

 and have remained on their early home 

 lands. (c. t. ) 



Potawatomi of the Wabash. A group of 

 Potawatomi bands having their villages 

 on the headwaters of Tippecanoe r., Ind. 

 By the treaty of Chippewavnaung (U. S. 

 Ind. Treat., 713, 1873) they sold their 

 reserves in 1836 and agreed to remove 

 within two years across the Mississippi. 

 They were the bands under the chiefs 

 known as Ashkum, Chechawkose, Meno- 

 quet, Mota, Kinkash, Weesionas, and 

 Wesaw. 



Potchushatchi {potclmsvia 'hatchet', 

 hdtchi ' stream ' ) . A former Upper Creek 

 town on Hatchet or., probably in Coosa 

 CO., Ala. 



Hatchet-Creek.— Parsons(1833) inSchoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, iv, 578, 18.54. Po chis hach cha.— Ibid. Po- 

 chuse-hat-che.— Hawkin.s (1799), Sketch, 50, 84, 

 1848. Pockuschatche.— Pickett, Hist. Ala., ii, 267, 



1851. Potchus'-hatchi. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. 

 Leg., I, 143, 1884. 



Poteskeet. An Algonquian tribe or band 

 living in 1700 on the n. shore of Albe- 

 marle sd., N. C. — Mooney, Siouan Tribes 

 of the E., 7, 1894. 



Potic ( probably an equivalent of Abnaki 

 and Mohegan I'owntucMik, 'country about 

 the falls' ). A Mechkentowoon village w. 

 of the present Athens, Greeneco., N. Y. It 

 was temporarily occupied by the fugitive 

 Pennacook after their flight from New 

 England about 1676. 



Potateuck. — Ruttenber, Ind. Geog. Names, 173, 

 1906. Potatik.— Ibid. Potic— Ibid. Potick.— Deed 

 of 1678 in N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., xiii, 54.5, 1881. 

 Potik.— Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 86, 1872. 



Potlapigua. Mentioned by Orozco y 

 Berra (Geog., 58, 348, 1864) as a division 

 of the Pima Alta, inhabiting the region 

 about Babispe, Baserac, and the frontier, 

 in Sonora, Mexico. This was Opata ter- 

 ritory. The name was also applied to 

 their principal settlement. 



Patlapiguas. — Hamy in Bull. Soc. d' Anthropolo- 

 gic, VI, 787, map, 18S3. Potlapiguas. — Mango (1716) 

 in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., I, 401, 1856. 



Potlas [Po'tlas). A gens of the Nuhalk 

 people, a Bellacoola subdivision of the 

 coast of British Columbia. — Boas in 7th 

 Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 3, 1891. 



Potlatch, The great winter ceremonials 

 among the tribes of the n. Pacific coast 

 from Oregon to Alaska. The word has 

 passed into popular speech along the N. W. 

 coast from the Chinook jargon, into which 

 it was adopted from the Nootka word 

 paisJiatl, 'giving,' or 'a gift.' 



Although varying considerably in dif- 

 ferent parts of the coast, these potlatches 

 were mainly marked, as the name implies, 

 by the giving away of quantities of goods, 

 commonly blankets. The giver some- 

 times went so far as to strip himself of 

 nearly every possession except his house, 

 but he obtained an abundant reward, in 

 his own estimation, in the respect with 

 which his fellow-townsmen afterward 

 regarded him, and when others "pot- 

 latched" he, in turn, received a share of 

 their property with interest, so that po- 

 tentially he wag richer than before. 

 During the festival in which the gifts were 

 made, housesand carved poles were raised, 

 chiefs' children were initiated into the 

 secret societies, their ears, noses, and lips 

 were pierced for ornaments, and sales of 

 copper plates, which figured prominently 

 in the social and economic life of the 

 people of this region, took place. Among 

 the Haida, children were then tattooed. 

 All was accompanied with dancing, sing- 

 ing, and feasting. Consult Boas in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. for 1895. See Fasting, Feasts, 

 Hospitality. (j. r. s. ) 



Potoashees. A division of the Salish 

 mentioned by Lewis and Clark as resid- 



