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SPATS ATLT SPIRIT WALKER 



[B. A. E. 



natives by Lewis and Clark, and its sup- 

 posed name was obtained from Lewis's 

 manuscript by Pursh, who gives it as 

 spatlum {''Spatlum Aboriginorum"). The 

 name, which is Salishan, is here a mis- 

 application, since spatlum in the Comox 

 dialect (spatlum in the Kwantlin) is 

 the name for tobacco. (w. r. g.) 



Spatsatlt (Spatsa^tlt). A Bellacoola 

 band at Talio (q. v. ), Brit. Col. — Boas in 

 7th Rep. N. VV. Tribes Can., 3, 1891. 



Spatsum (contracted from Spa'ptsEn, 

 'little Indian hemp place'). A village 

 of the Spences Bridge band of Ntlakyap- 

 amnk on the s. side of Thompson r., 35 

 m. above Lytton, Brit. Col. (Teit in Mem. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, ir, 173, 1900). Pop. 

 135 in 1901. 



Apaptsim,— Can. Ind. AfF., 363, 1897 (misprint). 

 Cpa'ptsEn.— Hill-Tout in Rep. Ethnol. Surv. Can., 

 4, 1899. S-pap-tsin.— Can. Ind. A£f., 196, 1886. 

 Spatsim.— Ibid. ,419, 1898. Spatsum.— Teit, op. cit. 



Spear. See Lance. 



Spearheads. See Arroivheads. 



Spemicalawba ('High Horn,' from 

 spiimuk, 'high'; the common spelling of 

 the name). A Shawnee cliief, known to 

 the whites as Captain James Logan. His 

 mother was Tecumtha's (Tecumseh's) sis- 

 ter. When a boy, in 1 786, he was captured 

 by Gen. Logan, of Kentucky, while the 

 latterwasonan expedition against theOhio 

 tribes. The general took the boy into 

 his own family, sent him to school, gave 

 him his own name, and then sent h,im 

 back to his tribe. The result was that 

 Logan thenceforth was the firm friend of 

 the whites. He afterward married an 

 Indian woman, who, like himself, had 

 been taken under similar conditions and 

 resided with the family of Col. Hardin, 

 of Kentucky, for several years. He en- 

 deavored unsuccessfully to dissuade 

 Tecumtha from hostilities, and in the 

 War of 1812 enlisted on the side of the 

 Americans, doing good service as a scout 

 and spy in the Ohio region. His good 

 faith having been called into question on 

 one occasion when his party had retreated 

 before a superior force, he determined to 

 prove his loyalty, and setting out with 

 two Indian companions down the Mau- 

 mee r., encountered near the rapids the 

 British Captain Elliot with 5 Indians, 

 who claimed Logan's party as prisoners. 

 Watching an opportunity, Logan's men 

 attacked the others, killing Elliot and 

 two of his Indians, but with the dangerous 

 wounding of Logan and one of his men. 

 Taking their enemies' horses, they made 

 their way to the camp of the American 

 General Winchester, where Logan died 

 two days after, Nov. 24, 1812. He was 

 buried with the honors due his rank and 

 received warm eulogies from Gen. Win- 

 chester and Maj. Hardin. In person he 

 is described as of fine physique, with 

 features expressive of courage, intelli- 



gence, good humor, and sincerity. His 

 usual residence was at the Shawnee town 

 of Wapakoreta, Ohio. Logansport, Ind., 

 takes its name from him. His name 

 occurs also as Spamagelabe. (j. m. ) 



Spences Bridge Band. One of 4 subdi- 

 visions of Ntlakyapamuk occupying the 

 banks of Thompson r., Brit. Col., from 

 about 8 m. below Spences Bridge nearly 

 to Ashcroft. — Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist, II, 170, 1900. 

 Nkamtci'nEmux. — Teit, op. cit. ('people of the 

 entrance'; more strictly applied to the Indiana 

 immediately about Spences Bridge). 



Spia. The extinct Hawk clan of Sia 

 pueblo, N. Mex. 



Spia-hano.— Hodge in Am. Anthr., ix, H51, 1896 

 (hdno= 'people'). 



Spichehat. A tribe or village formerly 

 in the country between Matagorda bay 

 and Maligne (Colorado) r., Texas. The 

 name seems to have been given to Joutel 

 in 1687 by the Ebahamo, a tribe probably 

 closely affiliated with the Karankawa, 

 which dwelt in this region. See Gatschet, 

 Karankawa Inds., PeabodyMus. Papers, 

 I, 23, 35, 1891. (A. c. F.) 



Espicheates.— Barcia, Ensayo, 271, 1723. Spi- 

 cheats.— .loutel (1687) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 1, 137, 1.846. Spicheets.— Shea, note in Charlevoix, 

 New France, iv, 78, 1870. Spichehat.— Joutel 

 (1687) in Margry, Dt-c, III, 288, 1878. 



Spike-buck Town. A former Cherokee 

 settlement on Hiwassee r., at or near the 

 present Hayesville, Clay co., N. C. 

 Spike Bucktown.— Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 

 map, 1887. 



Spine-back Stones. A descrii)tive term 

 for a number of objects of stone, the use 

 of which is problematical. They are 

 somewhat related 

 in their form to the 

 pierced tablets and 

 the boat -shaped 

 stones (q. v.), and 

 have two perfora- 

 tions for attach- 

 ment or suspension. 

 Nearly all are made 

 of slate, and are 

 neatly shaped and polished. In length 

 they vary from 4 to 6 in. The under side 

 is flatfish and the ends are unequal, one 

 being pointed and the other blunt and 

 often sloping upward, while the convex 

 back rises into a somewhat pronounced 

 knob, or spine, which is doubtless remi- 

 niscent of some characteristic animal 

 feature. These interesting objects are 

 suggestive of the small carvings represent- 

 ing the spine back whale found in ancient 

 graves of California. See Problematical 

 objects. (w. H. H.) 



Spinning. See Weaving. 

 SpiritWalker. A chief of the Wahpeton 

 Sioux, born at Lacquiparle, Minn., about 

 1795. He was early converted to Christi- 

 anity and was friendlv in the Sioux out- 

 break of 1862, but fled to Dakota after 

 the defeat of Little Crow. Mrs Marble, 



SPINE-BACK Stone; Gf 

 BANDED Slate ; 

 (length 4 6-8 IN.) 



