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TATSHIAUTIN TATTOOING 



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ried adult males, 14 widows and unmar- 

 ried females, 44 boys, and 53 girls, giv- 

 ing 98 males and 121 females of all ages. 

 According to Fattier Morice they now 

 number about 500, of whom 205 are at 

 Ft Resolution. The Tatsanottine were 

 the Montagnais (see Chipeicyan) of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, for whom a 

 special alphabet was designed and books 

 printed in it by the English missionaries 

 (see Pilling, Bibliog. Athapascan Lang., 

 1892). Petitot found them serious and 

 religiously inclined like the Chipevvyan, 

 from whom they differed so slightly in 

 physique and in language that no novice 

 could tell them apart. They formerly 

 manufactured, and sold at fabulous prices, 

 copper knives, axes, and other cQtting 

 tools, according to Father Morice. The 

 metal was found on a low mountain 

 in the vicinity of the river called Cop- 

 permine r. by the traders on Hudson 

 bay. The diffusion of iron and steel im- 

 plements at length so depreciated the 

 value of the aboriginal wares that, finding 

 the main source of their revenue cut off 

 through the new order of things, they 

 finally moved to the s. 



The Tatsanottine have a n^yth that one 

 of their women was kidnaped and car- 

 ried blindfolded off to the country of the 

 Eskimo in Asia and married to one of 

 these, and that she made her escape with 

 her infant in an umiak, reached the shore 

 of America by paddling from isle to isle 

 of the Aleutian archipelago, being pro- 

 tected on the voyage by a white wolf. 

 Reaching the shore of Alaska she aban- 

 doned her Eskimo child because it robbed 

 her of pemmican she had made. Seeing 

 a blazing mountain she ascended it, think- 

 ing to find a party camping on the sum- 

 mit. She found that the flames were 

 emitted by a molten metal, and when 

 eventually she reached the camp of her 

 own people they accompanied her back 

 by the path she had marked with stones 

 to get some of the metal, which they 

 called bear's dung or beaver's dung, be- 

 cause it was red. They thought she was 

 a woman descended from the skies, but 

 when they had made the journey for the 

 third time some of them laid violent 

 hands on her, whereupon she sat down 

 beside her precious copper, refusing to go 

 home with them. When they came 

 back some time later to seek the volcano 

 of molten copper, she was still there, but 

 sunk to her waist into the earth. She 

 gave them copper, but again refused to 

 go back with them, putting no faith in 

 their promises. She said she would give 

 good metal to those who brought her 

 good meat, iron if the gift were lung, 

 liver, or heart of the caribou, copper for 

 whomsoever gave red flesh, but if any- 

 one brought bad meat they would get 



brittle metal in return. Those who came 

 back later for more metal found her bur- 

 ied to the neck in the ground. The last 

 time they came she had disappeared in 

 the bowels of the earth, and from that 

 time no more copper could be found on 

 the bank of Copper r., though there may 

 still be seen the huge stones which the 

 metal woman placed to mark the way. 

 Her tribe have since been called the Cop- 

 per People, for water scum and beaver 

 dung are both figurative names for this 

 metal. 



Base-tlo-tinneh. — Ross, MS., B. A. E. Birch-rind 

 Indians. — Franklin, Journ. Polar Sea, l, 76, 1824. 

 Birch-Rind men.— Prichard, Phys.Hist.,V,3"7, 1847. 

 Birch-rind people. — Richardson, op. cit! Copper 

 Indians.— Hearne, Journ. N. Ocean, 119 1795. 

 Copper-Mine.— Sclioolcraft, Trav., 181, 1H21. Cou- 

 teaux Jaunes. — Petitot, Diet. Dt'ni^-Dindjie, xx, 

 1876. Cuivres. — Ibid. Dene Couteaux- Jaunes. — 

 Petitot, Autour du lac de.s Eselaves, 289, 1891. 

 Gens du Cuivre. — Ibid., 158. Indiens Cuivres. — 

 Balbi, Atlas EthnoK., 821, 182G. Red Knife,— Tan- 

 ner, Narr., .S90, 1830. Red-knife Indians, —Macken- 

 zie, Voy., 16, 1802. Red Knives.— Franklin, Journ. 

 Polar Sea, I, 40, 1824. T'altsan Ottine.— Prichard, 

 Phys. Hist., v, 651, 1847. Tansawhot-dinneh.— 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 542, 1853. Tal-sote'- 

 e-na.— Morgan. Consang. and Affin., 289, 1871 ('red- 

 knife Indians'). Tantsanhoot-dinneh.— Balbi, At- 

 las Ethnog., 821, 1826. Tantsa-ut'dtinne.— Richard- 

 son, Arct. Exped., ll, 4, 1851. Tantsawhoots.— 

 Keane in Stanford, fompend., 464, 1878. Tantsa- 

 whot-dinneh.— Franklin, Journ. PoIarSea,267, 1824 

 (mistranslated 'birch-rind Indians'). T'atsan 

 ottine.— Petitot, Diet. Deu^ Dindji(S, xx, 1876 

 (trans, 'copper people'). T'attsan-ottine.— Peti- 

 tot in Bull. Soc. Geog. Paris, chart, 1875. Tautsa- 

 •wot-dinni.— Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond., 

 69, 1856. Thatsan-o'tinne, — Morice in Anthropos, 

 I, 265, 1906 (so called by most of their congeners). 

 Tpaltsan Ottine. — Petitnt, Autour du lac des Es- 

 elaves, 158, 1891. Tpa-'ltsan-Ottine.— Ibid., 363. 

 Tpatsan-Ottine.— Ibid., 95. Tran-tsa ottine. — 

 Franklin quoted by Petitot, ibid. Yellow Knife. — 

 Dall, Alaska, 429, 1870. Yellowknife Indians.— 

 Back, Exped. to Great Fish R., 130, 1836. Yellow 

 Knife people.— Ross, MS., B,A. E. Yellow-knives. — 

 Can. Ind. Aff., pt. 3, 84, 1902. Yellow Knives.— 

 Hind, Lab. Penin., ii, 261, 1863. 



Tatshiautin ( ' people of the head of the 

 lake'). A Takulli clan or division, offi- 

 cially known as the "Tatcheband," atthe 

 head of Stuart lake and on Tachi r. and 

 Thatlah, Tremblay, and Connolly lakes, 

 Brit. Col. ; pop, 65 in 1909. Settlements: 

 Kezche, Sasthut, Tachy, Tsisli, Tsisthain- 

 li, Yucuche, and probably Saikez. 

 Tatshiantins.— Domenech, Deserts of N. Am., i, 

 444, 1860. Tatshiautin.— Hale, Ethnol. and Philol., 

 202, 1846. Ta-tshi-ko-tin.— Tolmie and Dawson, 

 Vocabs. Brit. Col., 123b, 1884. Ta-tshik-o-tin.— 

 Dawson in Geol. Surv. Can. 1879, 30b, 1881. Tjaz- 

 'tenne. — Morice, Notes on W. Denes, 26, 1895 

 ( ' people of the end of the lake ' ). 



Tatsituk (Tat'slUW, 'place of fright'). 

 A Pima village about Cruz's store in s. 

 Arizona. — Russell in 26th Rep. B. A. E., 

 23, 1908. 



Tatsunye. A band or village of the 

 Chastacosta on Rogue r., Oreg. 

 T'a-ts'un'-ye. — Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 

 234, 1890. 



Tattema. See Tatemy. 



Tattooing {tatu is of Tahitian origin; its 

 equivalent in some of the languages to 

 North America is derived from a roof 



