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B. A. E., 1899; Nordenskiold, Cliff Dwell- 

 ers of the Mesa Verde, 1893; Putnam in 

 Peabody Mus. Reps.; Read and Whittle- 

 sey in Ohio Centen. Rep., 1877; School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, i-vi, 1851-57; Squier 

 and Davis in 

 Smithson. Cont., 

 1, 1848; J. Steven- 

 son (1) in 2d Rep. 



MOUND VASES; HUMAN FORMS, ft, Arkansas; Height ef in. 

 '*) Missouri; Height 9+ in. 



B. A. E., 1883, (2) in 3d Rep. B. A. E., 

 1884; M. C. Stevenson in 11th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1894; Stites, Economics of the Iro- 

 quois, 1905; Thomas in 12th Rep. B. A. 

 E., 1894; Thrnston, Antiq. Tenn., 1897; 



ANCIENT PUEBLO WARE; DESIGNS IN BLACK ON WHITE GROUND 

 a, Height 8 m. ; '', Height 6 in. 



Will and Spinden in Peabody Mus. Pa- 

 pers, III, no. 4, 1906; Willoughby (1) in 

 Jour. Am. Folk-lore, x, no. 36, 1897, (2) in 

 Putman Mem. Vol., 1909; Wyman in 

 Mem. Peabody Acad. Sci., i, no. 4, 1875. 



(W. H. H. ) 



Pottery Hill. The local name of a pre- 

 historic pueblo ruin, oval in shape, meas- 

 uring 228 by 150 ft, situated on the n. 

 side of the Salt and Little Colorado r. 

 watershed, in the White mts., near Lin- 

 den, Navajo co., Ariz. — Hough in Nat. 

 Mus. Rep. 1901, 297, 1903. 



Potzuye ( Fo-tzu-ye) . A prehistoric pue- 

 blo of the Tewa, on a mesa w. of the Rio 

 Grande in n. New Mexico, between San 

 Ildefonso pueblo on the n. and the Rite 

 de los Frijoles on the s. — Bandelier in 

 Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 78, 1892. 



Pouches. See Bags, Receptacles. 



Pouxouoma. A former Costanoan vil- 

 lage, said to have been connected with 

 San Juan Bautista mission, Cal. — Engel- 

 hardt. Franc, in Cal., 398, 1897. 



Powcomonet. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy in 1608, on the n. bank of 

 Rappahannock r., in Richmond co.,Va. — 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. 



Powell. See Osceola. 



Poweshiek (properly Pdwtshik", 'he who 

 shakes [something] off [himself],' a mas- 

 culine projjer name in the Bear clan, the 

 ruling clan of the Foxes). A Fox chief 

 at the period of the Black Hawk war in 

 1832. It was he, rather than Keokuk, to 

 whom was due the weakening of Black 

 Hawk's fighting power. The tie which 

 held together the Sauk and Foxes hud for 

 sometime been growing weak, and when 

 Kwaskwamia, a subordinate Sauk chief, 

 ceded away the Rock River country in 

 Illinois, without the knowledge or con- 

 sent of the rest of the people, Poweshiek 

 with most of the Foxes withdrew from 

 the others and crossed the Mississippi to 

 the vicinity of the present Davenport, 

 Iowa. When the fighting began they 

 were joined here by Keokuk and the 

 fleeing Sauk, and later also by the de- 

 feated hostiles, to whom they gave pro- 

 tection. Poweshiek died in Kansas. In 

 behalf of his tribe he signed the treaty 

 of Ft Armstrong, Rock Island, 111., Sept. 

 21, 1832; treaties made in the same local- 

 ity, Sept. 27 and 28, 1836; Washington, 

 Oct, 21, 1837; and Sac and Fox agency, 

 Iowa, Oct. 11, 1842. A county of Iowa 

 takes its name from him. (w. j. ) 



Powhatan (Southern 'Rena.Tpe patra'tan, 

 'falls in a current' of water. — Gerard). 

 A confederacy of Virginian Algonquian 

 tribes. Their territory included the tide- 

 water section of Virginia from the Po- 

 tomac s. to the divide between James r. 

 and Albemarle sd., and extended info 

 the interior as far as the falls of the prin- 

 cipal rivers about Fredericksburg and 

 Richmond. They also occupied the Vir- 

 ginia counties e. of Chesapeake bay and 

 possibly included some tribes in lower 

 Maryland. In the piedmont region w. 

 of them were the hostile Monacan and 

 Manahoac, while on the s. were the 

 Chowanoc, Nottoway, and INIeherrin of 

 Iroquoian stock. Although little is known 

 in regard to the language of these tribes, 

 it is believed they were more nearly re- 

 lated to the Delawares than to any of the 

 northern or more westerly tribes, and 

 were derived either from them or from 

 the same stem. Brinton, in his tentative 



