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SINIMIUT SINNONQDIBESSE 



[b. a. e. 



members of which were there at the same 

 time. Cf. Senecu. (h. e. b.) 



Gensoc. — Valero Bautismos, 1739, MS. Censoo. — 

 Ibid. Seniczo.— Ibid., 1728. Senixzo.— Ibid., 1728. 



Sinimiut. A Central Eskimo tribe on 

 Pelly bay, Canada. They live on musk- 

 ox and salmon like the tribes of Hudson 

 bav, and have also an abundance of seals. 

 They numbered 45 in 1902. 

 Pelly Bay Eskimo,— Ausland, 653, 1885. Sina- 

 miut.— Boas in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xv, pt. 

 2, 377, 1907. Sinimijut.— Boas in Zeitschr. Ges. 

 f. Erdk., 226, 1883. Sinimiut.— Boas in 6tli Rep. 

 B. A. E., 451, 1888. 



Siningmon. A Kaviagmiut Eskimo vil- 

 lage on Golofnin bav, Alaska. — 11th Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 162, 1893. 



Sinkers. Primitive fishermen every- 

 where weight their lines and nets with 

 stones. These are usually pebbles or 

 other suitable bits of stone, grooved or 

 notched for attachment by 

 / means of cords. Those now 



I in use by the Indian tribes, as 



I well ae by the whites, cor- 



\ _,; respond with specimens found 



in large numbers along the 

 banks of streams and the 

 shores of lakes and other large 

 bodies of water. Larger specimens of 

 the same general shape become anchors 

 (q. V.) on occasion, and the better fin- 

 ished forms pass by imperceptible gra- 

 dations into the very large group of ob- 

 jects classed as plummets (q. v.), and, in 

 another direction, into the stone club- 

 heads of the Plains tribes (see Weapoiis). 

 Adair states that the Southern Indians, 

 having placed a trap in the bed of the 

 stream, drove the fish toward it by means 

 of a rope made of long grape vines to 

 which were attached stones at proper 

 distances, men placed on opposite sides 



Sinker; N. 

 (1-3) 



. (1-2J 



of the stream dragging the weighted rope 

 along the bottom. The extent to which 

 nets (q. v. ) were used by the Indians of 

 the Middle Atlantic states is not known; 

 but the impressions of nets of varying 

 degrees of fineness on pottery show at 

 least that nets were in common use. 



Consult Abbott, Prim. Indust, 1881; 

 Adair, Hist. Am. Inds., 1775; Beau- 

 champ in Bull. N. Y. State Mus., iv, no. 

 16, 1897; Jones, Antiq. Southern Inds., 

 1873; Rau, Prehist. Fishing, Smithson. 

 Cont., XXV, 1884. (w. h. h.) 



Sinkiuse. A former division of Salish, 

 under Chief Moses, living on the e. side of 



Columbia r. from Ft Okinakane to the 

 neighborhood of Pt Eaton, Wash. Hale 

 classed them as a division of the Pisquowa. 

 Pop. 355 in 1905, 299 in 1908, 540 (with 

 others?) in 1909. 



Columbias.— Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 734, 

 1896. Isle-de-Peins. — Nesmith in Ind. Aff . Rep. , 219, 

 1858. Isle-de-peiree.— Owen, ibid., 268. Isle-de. 

 Pierre,— Shaw in H. R. Ex. Doc. 37, 34th Cong., 

 8d sess., 113, 1857. linkinse. — Bancroft, Nat. 

 Races, I, 316, 1874 (misprint) Moses band. — Ind. 

 Aff. Rep. 1904, 610, 1905. Sinakaiausish.— Hale in 

 U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 211, 1846. Sinkayus.— 

 Gatschet, Salish MS., B. A. E. (Salish name). Sin- 

 ki-use,— VVinans in Ind. Aff. Rep., 23, 1870- 

 Snxayus.— Gatschet, Salish MS., B. A. E. (Salish 

 name). 



Sinklezin (Navaho name) . An ancient 

 pueblo ruin situated on the highest point 

 of a peninsula-like mesa jutting intoChaco 

 canyon from the s., about | m. s. of 

 Pueblo Bonito, n. w\ N. Mex. It is built 

 of dull-brown sandstone, rectangular in 

 form but very irregular, a semicircular 

 tier of rooms on the s. inclosing a large 

 court. The dimensions of the structure 

 are 135 ft e. and w. by 183 ft n. and s. 

 The E. wing is 50 by 75 f t,"the w. 30 by 58 ft. 

 A wing 30 ft wide extends 40 ft to the s. 

 The semicircular tier of rooms was 256 ft 

 long, 9 ft wide, and 2 stories high; 72 ft of 

 this tier is still (1902) standing about 12 ft 

 high. The walls throughout vary from 

 20 to 30 in. thick. The rooms are long 

 and narrow, 5j by 21 ^ ft being a com- 

 mon size. There are 5 circular kivas in 

 the building, varying from 6 to 25 ft in 

 diameter. The masonry is of alternat- 

 ing bands of fine and coarse stone and 

 dressed blocks chinked with fine tablets, 

 the arrangement being very irregular. 

 Portions of the third story remain stand- 

 ing. The original height was probably 

 4 stories. (e. l. h.) 



Sinkyone. An Athapascan group for- 

 merly living on the lower partof the South 

 fork of Eelr., Humboldt co., Cal., having 

 settlements on Bull and Salmon crs. They 

 also held the country down to the coast 

 at Shelter cove and s. to Usal. This sec- 

 tion has been popularly known as the 

 Usal (a Pomo term) , that on Bull or. and 

 South fork as the Lolanko ( from the name 

 of a locality) . They lived for a time on 

 Smith River res., afterward being trans- 

 ferred to Hoopa res. on Trinity r., from 

 which place a few survivors returned in 

 the early seventies and are now living 

 near their old homes. They Hved in 

 conical houses of bark, dressed much as 

 the tribes about them, and made baskets 

 by twining. They burned their dead. 

 They differed but little from the Wailaki 

 in language. (p. e. g.) 



Bay-ma-pomas. — Tobin in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1857, 405, 

 1858. 



Sinnonquiresse ('Very long w'ampum 

 string.' — Hewitt). A Mohawk chief, the 

 speaker at Albany in 1691, 1696, 1700, 

 and 1701, signing the Beaver land treaty 

 in the latter year. He was examined 

 about Dellius in 1699, and was at Albany 



