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drumheads and lacing them. Sometimes 

 rings of rawhide from the tails of animals 

 wereslirunkonclubliandlesorpipestems, 

 like bands of iron. Soles of moccasins 

 Averemadeof this material in the W., and 

 the Plains tribes often utilized old par- 

 fleche cases for this purpose. Cut in strips 

 of differing sizes, rawhide was used for 

 harness, thongs, whiplashes, wattling, for 

 making cages, fencing, etc. Narrow strips, 

 called babiche by the French, were em- 

 ployed for fishing and harpoon lines, nets, 

 lacing for snowshoes, rackets, ball sticks, 

 and gaming wheels. Bags (sometimes 

 called l)y their Algonquian name iuuske- 

 rnoots) of fine workmanship were knit of 

 babiche. Braided babiche was the ma- 

 terial of reatas, halters, cinches, and carry- 

 ing -straps. See Parjieche, Shaganappi, 

 Skini^ and Skin-dressing. (w. h. ) 



Rawranoke. See Roanoke. 



Rayon. A former village of the Opata 

 in Sonora, Mexico, but now a civilized 

 settlement. Besides Opata and Pima 

 (Hrdlicka in Am. Anthr., vi, 72, 1904), 

 the settlement contained 63 Yaqui in 

 1900. 



Razboinski ( Russian : ' robbers ' ) . A 

 Chnagmiut Eskimo village on the i»ight 

 bank of the Yukon, Alaska, near the 

 head of the delta; pop. 151 in 1880. 



Kinegnagmiut. — Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska. 337, 

 1902 (native name) Rasbinik — Dall, Alaska, 

 229, 1870. Razbinsky.— Xelson in isth Rep. B. A. E., 

 map, 1899. Razboinik. — Petri iff in 10th Census, 

 Alaska, 12, 1SS4. Razboinikskaia — Petroff, Rep. 

 on Alaska, 57, 1881. Razboiniksky. — Petroff in 

 10th Census, Alaska, map, 1884. 



Rchaketan. Given by Krause (Tlinkit 

 Indianer, 116, 1885) as a Tlingit division 

 of the Raven clan in the Chilkat town of 

 Klukwan, Alaska. Unidentified. 



Rchauutass-liade. Quoted bv Krause 

 (Tlinkit Indianer, 304, 1885) as the name 

 of a branch of the Haida of Queen Char- 

 lotte ids., Brit. Col. It is not identifiable 

 with any known group. 



Reaum's Village. A former Chippewa 

 village, so called after the chief, on Flint 

 r., Mich., on a tract about the boundary 

 of Genesee and Saginaw cos., ceded to 

 the United States under the treaty of 

 Jan. 14, 1837. The Reaum family, from 

 which the chief evidently derived his 

 name, was prominent in the early history 

 of Michigan. 



Receptacles. Objects of mineral, vege- 

 tal, or animal material, the chief function 

 of which is merely to contain things. 

 The term receptacle includes all that is 

 meant by the following terms: bag, basin, 

 basket, boat, bottle, bowl, box, cache, 

 canteen, case, with many names (awl- 

 case,bow-case, plume-case, food-case, etc. ), 

 chest, coffin, cradle, cup, dish, gourd, 

 granary, grave, jar, ladle, mortar, net, 

 oUa, oven, parfleche, pit, platter, pot, 

 pouch, purse, quiver, reservoir, sack, 

 scabbard, spoon, tinaja, tray, trough, 



trunk, urn, vase, vessel, wallet— a vast 

 family of utensils, wonderfully varied in 

 form, material, and size, whose functions 

 include, beside the simple one of holding, 

 those of gathering, carrying, serving, sift- 

 ing, boiling, baking, mixing, grinding, 

 pounding, pouring, evaporating, sprin- 

 kling, etc. 



Men, even in the lowest known stages 

 of culture, emi)loy receptacles for food 

 and drink, relying largely on those fur- 

 nished by nature, as fruit cases, shells of 

 moUusks and turtles, bladders, etc., while 

 others, for varied purposes, are impro- 

 vised of bark, leaves, skins of animals, 

 and the like. The inventive genius of 

 the tril)es was constantly called into requi- 

 sition to improve on and multiply the 

 natural facilities. Strands of bark, grass, 

 leaves, hair, and other filaments, em- 

 ployed originally in holding and carrying 

 solid objects, were also combined in va- 

 rious ways, supplying nets, baskets, cra- 

 dles, quivers, and hammocks; and pliable 

 branches, twigs, and leaves served for 

 the construction of shelters, dwellings, 

 caches, and granaries. Nature furnished 

 varied receptacles for water, as lakes, 

 ponds, springs, and cavities in rocks, and 

 the tribes constructed reservoirs and cis- 

 terns, making residence pos.sible on many 

 arid sites. Stone vessels in the form of 

 concretions were available in some sec- 

 tions, and these were modified and used as 

 cups and dishes, and with advanced com- 

 munities the softer stones, and with some 

 even the harder varieties, were carved into 

 vessels of many forms. The use of baked 

 clay made it possible to shape receptacles 

 for many purposes which, in their highest 

 development, took graceful shapes and 

 were tastefully embellished. A joint of 

 cane, readily severed, formed an excep- 

 tionally neat cup, and Avooden utensils 

 shaped by means of charring, scraping, 

 and cutting were in almost universal use 

 by the trilies, serving countless useful 

 purposes. The more important varieties 

 of receptacles are herein treated under 

 their individual names. (w. h. h.) 



Rechquaakie (contr. and corruption of 

 rekawihaki, 'sandy land.' — Gerard). A 

 former Rockaway village near the pres- 

 ent Rockaway, Long id., N. Y. 

 Rechquaakie. — Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson R., 110, 

 1872. Reckheweck. — Ibid., 155. Rockaway. — Ibid., 

 110. 



Rechtauck. A former Manhattan vil- 

 lage on Manhattan id., N. Y. In 1643 

 it was temporarily occupied by some 

 fugitive Wecquaesgeek, who were at- 

 tacked and massacred by the Dutch. — 

 Ruttenber, Tril)es Hudson R., 106, 1872. 



Red Bank, A former Cherokee settle- 

 ment on Etowah r., at or near the pres- 

 ent county seat of Canton, Cherokee co., 

 Ga. — Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce in 

 5th Rep. B. A. E., 144, map, 1887. 



