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is thus described by Iberville as practised 

 on the lower Mississippi: " When 1 

 arrived where my brother was, the chief 

 or captain of the Bayogoulas came to the 

 shore of the sea to show me friendship 

 and civility after their manner, which is, 

 being near you, to stop, pass the hands 

 over their face and breast, and afterward 

 pass their hands over yours, after which 

 they raise them toward the sky, rubbing 

 them and clasping them together" (Mar- 

 gry, Dec, iv, 154-55, 1880). Although 

 varying to a certain extent, substantially 

 the same ceremony is reported from the 

 Indians of Carolina and the plains, the 

 Delawares, the Iroquois, the Aleut, and 

 the Eskimo proper; it was therefore wide- 

 spread throughout North America. Rub- 

 bing of noses by two persons is referred to 

 by early \\<1iters, and an old Haida Indian 

 affirmed it to have been the ancient cus- 

 tom among his people, but well authenti- 

 cated cases are rare, although the rubbing 

 of the nose with the hand was often 

 observed among Eskimo tribes. Mooney 

 says that most of these instances, as in the 

 case of the Comanche, may have been 

 nothing more than misconceptions of 

 the hugging described above. Not in- 

 frequently the rubbing ceremonies were 

 accompanied by the shedding of tears. 

 Friederici finds two areas in America in 

 which this prevailed, one in the central 

 and south-central part of South America 

 among the Tupi tribes of Sao Paulo, Minas 

 Gerfes, and Bahia, the Charrua of Banda 

 Oriental, and some of the Chaco tribes; 

 the second in North America w. of the 

 Mississippi from the sources of that river 

 to the Texas coast. This was particularly 

 conspicuous near the Gulf of Mexico, 

 from which circumstance the tribes there 

 were often called "weepers." Mooney 

 states that he has noted the custom only 

 where persons meet after a considerable 

 absence, and it was explained to him as 

 due to memories of events, particularly 

 deaths, which had taken place since the 

 previous meeting and which the figure of 

 the long absent one calls to mind. In 

 some cases, however, this has been 

 observed on the first meeting of Indians 

 with white men, when it perhaps had 

 some religious significance. 



Consult Friederici in Globus, lxxxix, 

 30-34, 1906; Mallery (1) in Am. Anthr., 

 HI, 201-16, 1890, (2) in Pop. Sci. Month., 

 XXXVIII, 477-90, 629-44, 1891. (.i. r. s. ) 



Salwahka {Sal-na''-kha, prob. ' at the foot 

 of the creek.' — Sapir). A former Ta- 

 kelma village near the mouth of Illinois 

 r. or one of its tributaries in Oregon. 

 Illinois Creek. — Dorsev, Takelma MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1SS4. Illinois Valley (band) .—Ibid, ^us 

 pla' ^unne'. — Dorsey, Tutu MS. vocab., B. A. E., 

 is84 ( ' plenty-of-camas people': Tutu name). 

 Sal-wa'-qa.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, III, 

 235, 1890 Cown name). Salwaza. — Sapir in Am. 

 Anthr., ix, 254, 1907. 



Samahquam. A body of Salish of Eraser 

 River agency, Brit. Col. ; pop. 67 in 1909. 



Samaekman.— Can. Ind. Aff., 138, 1879 (probably 

 identical). Samahquam. — Can. Ind. Aff., pt. 2, 

 160, 1901. Semaccom.— Can. Ind. Aff. 1S84, 187, 

 1885. 



Samamisli (Skagit: samena, 'hunter.' — 

 Gibbs). A Salish division on Samamish 

 and Dwamish lakes, w. Wash., number- 

 ing 101 in 1854. Gibbs classed them as 

 of Dwamish connection. They are not 

 to 1)6 confounded with the Sawamish of 

 Totten inlet. 



Mon-mish.— starling in Ind. Aff. Rep., 171, 1852 

 (separated by misprint from Say-hay-mon-mish). 

 Sababish.— Gibb.s in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 432, 1856. 

 Sahmamish. — Starling, op. cit., 170. Sam-abmish. — 

 Ross in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1869, 135, 1870. Sam-ahmish.— 

 U. S. Ind. Treaties, 378, 1873. Samamish.— Gibbs, 

 op. cit. Say-hay. — Starling, op. cit., 171 (see 3Ion- 

 mish, above). Sim-a-mish.— Ross, ibid., 17, 1870. 



Samampac. A tribe, evidently of the 

 Coahuiltecan family, met by Massanet 

 (Diario, in Mem. de Nueva Espaiia, xxvii, 

 94, MS.) in 1691 w. of Rio Hondo, Tex., 

 with Patchal, Papanac, Patsau, and other 

 tribes. ( h. e. b. ) 



Sambella. A former Upper Creek town 

 on the N. side of Tallapoosa r. , in Elmore 

 CO., Ala. — Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 

 Ala. map, 1899. 



Samboukia. An unidentified tribe for- 

 merly living on the e. side of Yazoo r., 

 Miss. Mentioned only by Coxe, who 

 places them between the Koroa and the 

 Tihiou (Tioux). 



Samboukas. — Coxe In French, Hist. Coll. La., iil, 

 59, 1851. Samboukia. — Coxe, Carolana, 10, map, 

 1741. 



Samish. A Salish division formerly on 

 a river and bay of the same name in 

 Washington, now on Lummi res. Asea- 

 kum and Nukhwhaiimikhl were among 

 their villages. 



Isamishs.— Domenech, Deserts N. A., i, 441, 1860. 

 Kahmish.— Ross in Ind. Aff. Rep., 135, 1869. 

 Sabsh.— Mallet, ibid., 198, 1877 (said to be subor- 

 dinate to Nugh-lemmy). Sahmish. — Stevens in 

 H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 34th Cong., 3d sess., 46, 1857. 

 S'a'mic- Boas in 5th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 10, 

 1889. Samish.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 436, 

 18.55. Sawish. — Simmons in Ind. Aff. Rep., 224, 

 1858. Sohmish.— Stevens, op. cit., 70. 



Samoset (possibly from Osamoset, 'he 

 who walks over much.' — Gerard). A na- 

 tive and sagamore of Pemaquid, and the 

 original j^roprietor of the site of Bristol, 

 Me. It is stated that he appeared among 

 the Pilgrims soon after their landing in 

 1620 and greeted them with the words 

 "Welcome, Englishmen!" — showing that 

 he was more or less acquainted with their 

 language — and informed them that he 

 was a sagamore of Moratiggon (q. v.). 

 As he had been in the C. Cod country for 

 8 months, it is probable that he went 

 thither with Capt. Dernier, who left Mon- 

 hegan for C. Cod a few months previous 

 to the date mentioned. Samoset intro- 

 duced the Pilgrims to Massasoit (q. v.), 

 with whom it seems he was in friendly 

 relation at that time. Moved to pity by 

 his apparent destitution, the Pilgrims 



