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TERRAPIN TESSUNTEE 



[B. A. E. 



were closely associated. According to 

 Garcfa the Mescal tribe spoke what is 

 known as the Coahuiltecan language. 

 Apparently there were linguistic differ- 

 ences in the group, for while a Babor was 

 called interpreter for the Terocodame, 

 another individual was called interpreter 

 for the Jumanes (ibid., 1706, partida 169). 

 Some of the Terocodame, as well as other 

 tribes of this group, followed the Solano 

 mission to the San Antonio and were bap- 

 tized at San Antonio de Valero (Baptis- 

 mal Rec, 1719). (h. e. b.) 



Hieroquodame.— Baptismal Rec, 1712, partida 5. 

 op. cit. Hirequodame. — Ibid. Hyeroquodame. — 

 Ibid., partida 10. Perocodame — Ibid., 1719, parti- 

 da 60. Therocodames. — Rivera, op. cit. 



Terrapin. Any one of various tortoises 

 of the waters of the s. Atlantic coast of the 

 United States; specifically Malaco clem- 

 inys palustris. The word is spelled in a 

 variety of ways by the early writers. 

 Whitaker (Good Newes from Va., 42, 

 1613) speaks of "the torope or little 

 turtle"; Campanius (1645) gives the 

 word for tortoise in the Delaware dialect 

 of New Jersey as tuljja or turpa; Rasles 

 (1691) gives for turtle in Abnaki, tu- 

 rebe; Eliot (Levit., xi, 29) renders tor- 

 toises by tconuppasog in the Massachu- 

 set dialect; Lawson (Nat. Hist, of Car., 

 133, 1709) has terehins; Beverley (Vir- 

 ginia, 151, 1722) speaks of "a small kind 

 of turtle, or tarapins (as we call them)." 

 The "Bre'r Tarrypin" of the "Uncle 

 Remus ' ' stories has become famous. Ter- 

 rapin is a diminutive from the torope or 

 turupe of the Virginian and Delaware dia- 

 lects of Algonquian. (a.f. c.) 



Terrenate. A Pima rancheria visited by 

 Father Kino in 1697; situated near the 

 headwaters of Rio San Pedro, s. of the 

 Arizona-Sonora boundary, A presidio 

 was established there in 1741, and about 

 1760-64 the population, including a garri- 

 son of about 50 men, numbered 411. The 

 presidio was temporarily transferred to 

 or near Guevavi before 1750. Bartlett 

 (Pers. Narr., i, 419, 1854) described it as 

 a village of 200 or 300 persons in 1851 ; in 

 1900 it contained 311 civilized inhabitants 

 and 26 Yaqui. 



San Bernardo Gracia Real.— Bancroft, No. Mex. 

 States, I, 528, 1884. Santa Cruz. — Bancroft, Ariz, 

 and N. Mex., 386, 1889 (probably its more recent 

 name). S. Felipe Gracia Real de Terrenate. — Ban- 

 croft, ibid., 371. Sn. Felipe.— Venegas, map, 1754, 

 in Bancroft, ibid., 370. S'. Philip de JHS.— 

 Venegas, Hist. Cal., I, map, 1759. Teranate. — 

 Hardy, Trav., 422, 1829. Terrenate.— Bernal (1697) 

 cited by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 356, 1889. 

 Terrenati.- Browne, Apache Country, 168, 1869. 

 Texenate.— Hardy, Trav., 427. 1829. 



Tertaitatana. The Day people of Taos 

 pueblo, N. Mex. 



Ter taitatana.— M. C. Stevenson, notes, B. A. E., 

 1910 (<aiMa= 'people'). 



Terwer. A former Yurok village on 

 Klamath r., Cal., a few miles above its 

 mouth. 

 Terwar. — Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June S, 1860. 



Tesakayala ( Tesak'a Ydla, 'place of nude 

 mountains ' ) . One of the mythic settling 

 places of the Zufii after their emergence 

 from the Underworld. — Gushing in 13th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 390, 1896. 



Teshaya. A former Salinan village situ- 

 ated at the site of San Antonio mission, 

 Monterey co., Cal. 



Sextapay. — Tavlor quoted by Bancroft, Hist. Cal., 

 I, 176, 1886. Teshaya.— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, 

 Apr. 27, 1860. Texhaya.— Bancroft, op. cit. Tex- 

 ja, — Taylor, op. cit. 



Teshoa. A discoidal flake or spall 

 knocked from the convex surface of 

 a waterworn stone by a dexterous blow 

 with a hammerstone or by striking a 

 bowlder against another stone. This im- 

 plement was first noted by Leidy, who 

 found it in use among the Shoshoni of 

 Wyoming. Leidy states that "it was 

 called a 'teshoa,' and is employed as a 

 scraper in dressing buffalo skins." The 

 use of sharp-edged flakes of this type for 

 scrapers and knives was doubtless general 

 among the tribes from the earliest times. 

 Consult Laidy in 6th Rep. Hayden Surv. 

 1872, 653, l873; Mercer in Proc. A. A. A. 

 S., XLi, 287, 1892; Phillips in Smithson. 

 Rep. 1897, 587, 1898. (w. h. H.) 



Teshuhimga. See HTwVe Hair. 



Tesia. A former settlement of the Mayo 

 on the Rio Mayo, above Navajoa, s. w. 

 Sonora, Mexico. The pueblo, now civil- 

 ized, contained 487 inhabitants in 1900. 

 San Ignacio de Tesia.— Orozco y Berra, Geog., 356, 

 1864. Tecia.— Hrdlieka in Am. Anthr., vi, 59, 

 1904. Tesia.— Hardy, Trav. in Mex., 438, 1829. 

 Tessia.— Kino map (1702) in Stoclilein, Neue 

 Welt-Bott, 1726. 



Tesik. A village occupied by Chukchi 

 and Aiwan Yuit Eskimo, half and half, 

 on the w. shore of Chechin bay, n. e. 

 Siberia. Pt)p. 142 in 25 houses about 1895; 

 94 in 18 houses in 1901. 



Ce'cin.— Bogoras, Chukchee, 29, 1904 (Chukchi 

 name). Te'si.i.-Ibid. (Eskimo name). Tsche- 

 tschebn. — Krause in Deutsche Geog. Bliltt., v, 80, 

 map, 1882. 



Tesinde ( ' buffalo-tail ' ) . A gens of the 

 Inshtasanda division of the Omaha. 

 Buffalo.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 155, 1877. Buffalo- 

 tail.— Dorsey in Bull. Philos. Soc. Wash., 129, 

 1880. Da-thun'-da.— Morgan, op. cit., 155. Ta- 

 8in-da.— Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., I, 327, 1823. 

 le-sindt .—Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E.,226, 1897. 



Tesonachas. Mentioned by Baudry des 

 Lozieres ( Voy. a la Louisiane, 244, 1802) 

 in a list of tribes with no information 

 concerning it. Unidentified. 



Tessamatuck. A village situated in 1608 

 on Piscataway r., just above the mouth, 

 in Prince George CO., Md.— Smith (1629), 

 Va., I, map, repr., 1819. 



Tessikdjuak ('big lake'). The chief 

 village of the Ukosiksalirmiut Eskimo at 

 the head of Back r. estuary, Canada. 

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

 1888. 



Tesauntee. A former Cherokee settle- 

 ment on Cowee r., s. of Franklin, in Ma- 

 con CO., N. C. — Royce in 5th Rep. B. A, 

 E., map, 1887. 



