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PUNISHMENT PUEISIMA CONCEPCION 



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Pungoteque.— Beverley, Va. , 199, 1722. Punkotink.— 

 Herrman, map (1670) in Rep. on Bdy. Line be- 

 tween Va. and Md., 1873. 



Punishment. See Captives, Ordeals. 



Punk. See Punkie. 



Punkapog (probably from pankwapog, 

 'shallow pond.' — Gerard). A former vil- 

 lage of Praying Indians near Stoughton, 

 Norfolk CO., Mass. It was settled origi- 

 nally by some Indians who removed from 

 Cohannet in 1654 and who numbered 

 about 60 souls in 1674, and was one of the 

 few Praying towns in existence after King 

 Philip's war in 1675-76. A few Indians 

 were still there in 1792. 



Packemitt.— Gookin (1677) in Trans. Am. Antiq. 

 Soc, 11, 518, 1836. Pakemit.— Harris in Mass. Hist. 

 Soe. Coll., IX, 160, 1804. Pakemitt.— Gookin (1674) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., i, 184, 1806. 

 Pakomit. — Gookin, ibid., 435. Pankapog.— Goo- 

 kin, ibid., 465. Penkapog. — Ibid. Ponkipog. — 

 Eliot (1655) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., iv, 

 270, 1834. Puncapaugs.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 VI, 160, 1857. Puncapoag.— Hubbard (1680) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., VI, 544, 1815. Punckapaug.— 

 Nicholson (1688) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., Ill, 551, 

 1853. Punkapaog. — Gookin (1674) in Mass. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 1st s., I, 148, 1806. Punkapog.— Gookin 

 (1677) in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, ii, 435, 1836. 

 Punkapoge.— Walker (1671) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., VI, 198, 1800. Punkepaog.— Hoyt, 

 Antiq. Res., 95, 1824. Punkipaog.— Cotton (1678) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., Viii, 245, 1868. 

 Punkipoag.— Harris, ibid., 1st s., ix, 160, 1804. 

 Punkipog.— Ibid. Punkqu.— Leverett (1677) in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., XIII, 514, 1881 (part illegible 

 in MS.). Punquapoag.— Rawson (1675) quoted by 

 Drake, Ind. Chron., 17, 1836. Punquapog.— Rawson 

 (1675) in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, Ii, 461, 1836. 



Punkie (also punky, punk). A minute 

 gnat, called also sand-fly or midge {Simu- 

 lium nocumm), the bite of which produces 

 an intolerable itching and smarting sen- 

 sation as if a spark of fire had dropped 

 upon the naked skin. These winged 

 atoms are, says Loskiel, "called by the 

 [Lenape] Indians ponk, or 'living 

 ashes,' from their being so small that 

 they are hardly visible, and their bite 

 as painful as the burning of red-hot 

 ashes." Another species is the black fly, 

 so well known as the scourge of travelers 

 in the N., of which pest Sir Alexander 

 Mackenzie remarks that "it is the most 

 tormenting insect of its kind in nature." 

 Punky, or punkie, is from the Dutch of 

 New York and New Jersey piinki, pi. 

 ptinkin, from (by vocalic addition) Len- 

 ape ptoik or ponk, short for pdnkus, cog- 

 nate with Chippewa ptngosh, Cree pik- 

 kus, Abnaki pekus, etc., all names for the 

 sand-fly, and from the root pfmkw, pingw, 

 plkkw, pSkw, 'to be pulverulent,' 'ashes- 

 like.' (W. R. G. ) 



Punonakanit. A Nauset village near 

 Wellfleet, Barnstable co., Mass. Some 

 Praying Indians were there in 1764. 

 Pononakanit. — Hist, of Eastham in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 1st s., VIII, 159, 1802. Punonakanit.— Bourne 

 (1764), ibid., i, 196, 1806. 



Pnntlatsh. A Saliah tribe on Baynes 

 sd. and Puntlatsh r., e. coast of Van- 

 couver id. In 1893 they numbered 45; 

 in 1896, the last time their name appears 



in the Canadian Reports on Indian Af- 

 fairs, the "Punt-ledge, Sail-up-Sun, and 

 Comox" numbered 69, since which time 

 they have apparently been classed with 

 the Comox. The Puntlatsh dialect em- 

 braces the Puntlatsh, Saamen, and Hwa- 

 hwatl. (j. R. s.) 



P-E'ntlatc— Boas in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 10, 

 1889. Puntlatsh. — Tolmie and Dawson, Vocabs. 

 Brit. Co1.,119b, 1884. Punt-ledge.— Can.Ind.AfiE.for 

 1893, 302, 1894. 



Punuk. A Yuit Eskimo village on 

 Punuk id., e. of St Lawrence id., Bering 

 sea, Alaska. 

 Poonook.— Elliott, Our Arct. Prov., 443, 1886. 



Punxsutawny ( Lenape: Punksuteney, 

 'gnat town.' — Gerard). A former Dela- 

 ware village under the jurisdiction of the 

 Six Nations of New York; situated on Big 

 Mahoning cr. , in Jefferson co. , Pa. , in 1755. 

 It was deserted in 1758. (j. n. b. h. ) 

 Eschentown. — Guss, Hist. Juniata and Susque- 

 hanna Val., chap, ii, 61, 1885. Ponchestanning. — 

 Post, Jour. (1758), in Pa. Archives, in, 542, 1853. 

 Puncksotonay. — Guss, op. cit. 



Punyeestye (Keresan : 'place to the 

 west on the bank of a stream' ) . Formerly 

 a summer village of the Laguna Indians 

 (q. v.), now a permanently inhabited 

 pueblo of that tribe, situated 3 m. w. of 

 Laguna, N. Mex. 



Pun-yeest-ye. — Pradt quoted bv Hodge in Am. 

 Anthr., iv, 346, 1891. Punyistyi.— Hodge, field 

 notes, B. A. E., 1895. Santa Ana.— Pradt, op. cit. 

 (common Spanish name). 



Puretuay. A former Tigua pueblo on 

 the summit of the round mesa of Shiem- 

 tuai, or Mesa de las Padillas, 3 m. n. of 

 Isleta, N. Mex. According to tradition 

 it was abandoned on account of witch- 

 craft before the Spanish discovery of New 

 Mexico, part of the inhabitants moving 

 N. w., the remainder settling at Isleta, 

 where their descendants still dwell. Ac- 

 cording to Bandelier it probably formed 

 one of the pueblos of the province of 

 Tiguex, visited by Coronado in 1541. If 

 this be the case it may be indentical with 

 the Pura of Onate in 1598. 

 Hyem Tu-ay. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, 

 III, 130, 1890; IV, 232, 1892 (probably a misprint of 

 the name of the mesa). Para. — Columbus Mem. 

 Vol. , 155, 1893 (misprint of Onate's Pura) . Poo-reh- 

 tu-ai. — Lummis, Man Who Married the Moon, 

 130, 1894. Pura.— Ofiale (1.598) in Doc. In6d., xvi, 

 115, 1871 (probably identical). Pur-e Tu-ay.— 

 Lummis quoted by Bandelier in Arch. Inst. 

 Papers, iv, 232, 1892. 



Purificacidn. A rancheria, probably 

 Papago, 12 leagues from Agua Escon- 

 dida, near the Arizona-Sonora boundary, 

 probably in a s. e. direction; visited by 

 Anzain 1774. — Anza quoted by Bancroft, 

 Ariz, and N. Mex., 389, 1889. 



Purisima Concepcidn. The eleventh 

 Franciscan mission founded in California. 

 Its establishment was postponed for the 

 same reason as that of Santa Barbara, but 

 on Dec. 8, 1787, the formal ceremonies 

 were performed by Lasuen and the new 

 mission dedicated to La Purisima Con- 

 cepcion. Owing to its being the rainy 



