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Takimilding. A Hupa village on the e. 

 side of Trinity r., Cal., about 4 m. n. of 

 Tsevvenalding. It was formerly the re- 

 ligious center of the Hupa; in it are situ- 

 ated tlie sacred house and sweat-house. 

 Here are held the acorn feast, the first 

 part of tlie spring dance, and the fall or 

 jumping dance, and from it the dancers 

 set out in canoes for the beginning of 

 the white deerskin dance. The priest in 

 charge of these ceremonies lives in this 

 village. (p. E. G.) 



Hosier.— Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol.; in, 72, 

 1877. Hostler.— Spalding in Ind. Aff. Rep., 82, 1870 

 (name used by white.s). Ople-goh.— Gibbs, MS., 

 B. A. E. (.Yuro'k name). TakimiLdin. — Goddard, 

 Life and Culture of the Hupa, 12, 1903. TJp-la- 

 goh.— McKee (1S51) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 4, 32d Cong., 

 spec, sess., 194. 1853. Up-le-goh.—Gibbs in School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, in, 139, 1853. 



Takin. An Indian village near Dent's 

 Ferry on Stanislaus r., Calaveras co., Cal. 

 A Yokuts (Mariposan) vocabulary ob- 

 tained from an Indian of this place is 

 given by Powers in Cont. N. A. Ethnol., 

 Ill, 571, 1877. 



Takini ('improved'). A band of the 

 Upper Yanktonai Sioux. 



Takini.— Dorsev in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 218, 1897. 

 Tatkannai.— H. R. Ex. Doc, 90, 42d Cong., 3d .sess., 

 5, 1873 (jirobably identical). 



Takokakaan (Tlciffqlaqa-an, 'town at 

 the mouth of Taku ' ) . A Tlingit town of 

 the Taku people in Alaska, (j. r. s.) 



Takon, A subdivision of the Hanku- 

 tchin, whose village is Nuklako. 



Takoongoto {T<t-ko-ong^ -o-to, 'high 

 bank'). A subclan of the Delawares. — 

 Morgan, Anc. Soc. , 172, 1878. 



Takoulguehronnon. Mentioned in the 

 middle of the 17th century (Jes. Rel.1656, 

 34, 1858) as a tribe defeated by the Iro- 

 quois. 



Takshak, A Chnagmiut Eskimo village 

 on the N. bank of the Yukon, Alaska, 

 near the delta. Cf. Cliukchage^uut. 



Takshagemut.— Dall, Alaska, map, 1870. Tak- 

 tchag-miout. — Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 5th 

 s., XXI, map, 1850. Taktschagmjut. — Holmberg, 

 Ethnog. Skizz., map, 1855. 



Taku. A Tlingit tribe on the river and 

 inlet of the same name, Stevens channel, 

 and Gastineau channel, Alaskan coast. 

 Thev were said to number 2,000 in 1869, 

 269 in 1880, and only 223 in 1890. Their 

 winter towns are Sikanasankian and Ta- 

 kokakaan. Social divisions are Gana- 

 hadi, Tsatenyedi, and Yenyedi. A tra- 

 dition, seemingly well founded, places 

 the ancient home of most of these people 

 in the interior, higher up Taku r. An 

 Athapascan tribe was known by the same 

 name. See Tahutine. (.j. r. s.) 



Tacos.— Scott in Ind. Aff. Rep., 314, 1868. Tahco.— 

 Anderson quoted bv Gibbs in Hist. Mag., 1st s., 

 VII, 75, 1863, Takas.— Halleck in Rep. Sec. War, 

 pt. I, 43, 1868. Tako.— ScotihT (1846) in Jour. 

 Ethnol. Soc. Lond., i, 232, 1848. Takon.— Colver 

 in Ind. Aflt. Rep., .575, 1870. Takoos.— Ibid., 

 674. Taku-kon.— Krau.se, Tlinkit Ind., 116, 1885. 

 Taku-qwan. — Emmons in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., Ill, 233, 1903. Takutsskoe.— Veniaminoff, 

 Zapiski, II, pt. 3,30, 1840. Tlaqo.— Swanton, field 

 notes, B. A. E., 1904. Tarkens.— Colyer in Ind. 



Aff. Rep. 1869, 588, 1870. Tarkoo.— Dennis in 

 Morri.s, Treas. Rep., 4, 1879. Thakhu.— Holmberg, 

 Ethnog. Skizz., map, 142, 1855. 



Takulli ('people who go upon the 

 water'). An ethnic group of Athapas- 

 can tribes, under Babine and Upper 

 Skeena agency, inhabiting the upper 

 branches of Fraser r. and as far s. as 

 Alexandria, Brit. Col. They are de- 

 scribed (Can. Ind. Aff., 210, 1909) as 

 consisting of 19 bands, all of the Hagwil- 

 get or Dene nation. Hale (Ethnol. and 

 Philol., 201, 1846) described them as oc- 

 cupying the country from 52° 30' n., bor- 

 dering on the Shuswap to 56°, being sepa- 

 rated from the Sekani on the e. by the 

 Rocky mts. and on the w. by the Coast 

 range. Anderson (Hist. Mag., vii, 75, 

 1863) located them approximately be- 

 tween 52° and 57° n. and 120° and 127° w. 

 Drake (Bk. Inds., viii, 1848) placed them 

 on Stuart lake. Buschmann (Athapask. 

 Sprachst., 152, 1589) located them on the 

 upper Fraser r., Brit. Col. The British 

 Columbia map of 1872 located them s. 

 of Stuart lake, between 54° and 55° n. 

 Dawson (Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., 192b, 

 1889) states that they, together with 

 the Sekani, inhabit the headwaters of 

 Skeena, Fraser, and Peace rs. Morice 

 (Proc. Can. Inst., 112, 1889) says that 

 they are one of the three western Den^ 

 tribes and that their habitat borders that 

 of the Tsilkotin on the s. and extends as 

 far up as 56° n. 



The Takulli were first visited by Mac- 

 kenzie, who, in 1793, traversed their 

 country on his way from L. Athabasca 

 to the "Pacific. In 1805 the first trading 

 post was established among them. They 

 are a semisedentary tribe, having fixea 

 homes in regularly organized villages 

 which they leave at regular seasons for 

 purposes of hunting and fishing. They 

 are the most numerous, important, and 

 progressive of all the northern Athapas- 

 can tribes. They borrowed many cus- 

 toms from the coast Indians, as the Chim- 

 mesyan are in close communication with 

 their northern and the Heiltsuk with 

 their southern septs. The practice of 

 wearing wooden labrets was obtained 

 from the Chimmesyan, while from the 

 coast tribes they adopted the custom of 

 burning the dead. A widow was obliged 

 to remain upon the funeral pyre of her 

 husband till the flames reached her own 

 body; she then collected the ashes of 

 the dead, placed them in a basket, which 

 she was obliged to carry with her during 

 three years of servitude in the family of 

 her deceased husband, at the end of 

 which time a feast was held, when she 

 was released from thralldom and per- 

 mitted to remarry if she desired. From 

 this custom the tribe came to be called 

 Carriers. No fewer than 8 kinds of snares 

 were employed by the Takulli, and 

 Morice states (Trans. Can. Inst., 137, 



