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SIRMILING SISSETON 



[b. a. e. 



1897. Sipuske-Numangkake.— Maximilian, Trav., 

 335, 1843. 



Sirmiling. A winter settlement of the 

 Akudnirmiut Eskimo on the n. coast of 

 Baffin land, near the n. w. end of Home 

 bay. 

 Sirmilling.— Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888. 



Sirunues. Mentioned by Barcia (En- 

 sayo, 328, 1723) as a tribe living on the 

 borders of New Mexico. Unidentified, 

 unless possibly intended for Zuni. 



Sisa.{S'is'-a). A large Chumashan village 

 formerly in a canyon near Santa Paula, 

 Ventura co., Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 July 24, 1863; Henshaw, Buenaventura 

 MS. vocab., B. A. E., 1884. 



Sisaguk. A former Aleut village on 

 Unimak, Aleutian ids., Alaska; pop. 91 

 in 1833. 



Schischaldenskoje. — Holmberg, Ethnol. Skizz., 

 map, 1855. Sheeshaldenskoi. — Elliott, Cond. Aff. 

 Alaska, 225, 1875. Shishaldin.-Petroft' in 10th Cen- 

 sus, Alaska, 35, 1884. Shishaldinski, — Baker, Qeog. 

 Diet. Alaska, 577, 1906 (Russian name). Shishald- 

 inskoe. — Veniaminof, Zapiski, ll, 203, 1840. Sisa- 

 guk.— Holmberg, Ethnol. Skizz., map, 1855. 



Sisahialmt. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage near Santa Barbara, Cal. — Taylor 

 quoted by Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 459, 

 1874. 



Siscastac. A former village, presuma- 

 bly Costanoan, connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Siscowet, Siscowit. See Siskawet. 



Sisibotari. A branch of the Nevome in 

 s. central Sonora, Mexico; so called from 

 their chief. Described by Ribas (Hist. 

 Triumphos, 380, 1645) as the most peace- 

 able and cultivated of the tribes encoun- 

 tered up to that time; they differed much 

 from the Yaqui and Mayo in dress, the 

 men wearing short mantles in summer 

 and long cloaks of cotton and agave 

 thread in winter, and the women petti- 

 coats of highly dressed and painted skins 

 or of cotton and agave, and also aprons, 

 in summer, to which, in winter, was 

 added a garment like a bishop's gown 

 (roqueia). Their houses were of a kind 

 of adobe unmixed with straw. Their 

 dances are described as having been very 

 gay but modest. 



Sisichii. A former Chumashan village 

 in "Dos Pueblos," near Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. (Taylor quoted by Bancroft, Nat. 

 Races, i, 459, 1874.) Cf. Limdiu, Sisuchi 



Sisika. The Swallow clan of San 

 Felipe pueblo, N. Mex. It was almost 

 extinct in 1895. 



Sisika-hano.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., IX, 352, 1896 

 (M7(o='people'). 



Sisintlae {Si'slriLae, 'the Si^'nLaes'). 

 The name of gentes among the Goasila, 

 Nakoaktok, Nimkish, Tlauitsis, and true 

 Kwakiutl. 



Sen^/ae. — Boas in Petermanns Mitteil., pt. 5, 130, 

 1887. Si'sinLae.— Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 330, 

 1897. 



Sisitcanogna. A former Gabrielefio ran- 

 cheria in Loa Angeles co., Cal., at a local- 



ity later known as Pear Orchard. — Ried 

 (1852) quoted by Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 June 8, 1860. 



Sisjulcioy (from Shi-shd'-we-ku-i). A 

 former Chumashan village on the coast 

 in Ventura co., Cal., in a locality now 

 called Punta Gorda. 



Ci-ca'wc-ku-i. — Henshaw, Buenaventura MS. 

 vocab., B. A. E., I.s84. Sisjulicoy. — Taylor in Cal. 

 Farmer, July 24, 1863. 



Siskawet. A name, with many vari- 

 ants, such as siskowet, siskiivit, siskowit, 

 siskivoet, ciacovet, etc., for Salvelinus nam- 

 aycush, var. siscowet, a large thick-bodied 

 salmon of the deep waters of L. Superior. 

 Its flesh pos.sesses a fine flavor, but is so 

 fat and oily as to render it almost unfit 

 for food until after it has been salted and 

 pickled. After it has been cured with 

 salt, the fish commands in the market 

 double the price of the Mackinaw salmon, 

 of which it is now regarded as a variety. 

 It is taken in large quantities by the 

 Canadian French and by Indian fisher- 

 men by means of the torch and spear. 

 The name is a Canadian French contrac- 

 tion and corruption of the cumbersome 

 Chippewa name pemiteiviskawet, 'that 

 which has oily flesh.' The suffix -skawet 

 is the participial form of the verbal suflfix 

 -skaire, denoting that a fish has flesh of a 

 character denoted by the attributive pre- 

 fix. The flesh of other animals is denoted 

 by the suffix -shkiive. (w. r. g) 



Siskhaslitun {Sts^-gas-H^-tiin). A former 

 village of the Chetco on the s. side of 

 Chetco r., Oreg. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. 

 Folk-lore, in, 236, 1890. 



Siskiwit, Siskowit, Siskwoet. See Slska- 

 ioet. 



Sisolop. A former Chumashan village 

 near Puri'sima mission, Santa Barbara 

 CO., Cal. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 

 1861. 



Sissabanonase. A former Chumashan 

 village near Santa Barbara mission, Cal. — 

 Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 24, 1863. 



Sisseton ('lake village'). One of the 

 seven original tribes of the Dakota. 

 They appear to have formed a link be- 

 tween the eastern and western tribes, 

 though generally included in the eastern 

 division, with which they seem to have 

 the closest affinity. Riggs says that the 

 intercourse between the Mdewakanton 

 on the Mississippi and lower Minnesota 

 rs. and the Wahiieton, Wahpekute, and a 

 part of the Sisseton has been so constant 

 that but slight differences are discover- 

 able in their manner of speaking, though 

 the western Sisseton show greater differ- 

 ence in their speech. This tribe was in 

 existence at the coming of the whites. 

 Rev. T. S. Williamson, who was well 

 acquainttd with the history, traditions, 

 languages, and customs of the eastern 

 Dakota, says: "From what was written 

 on this subject by Hennepin, La Hontan, 



