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TORAL TOSANACHIC 



[b. a. e. 



foriBer Cherokee settlement on Little Ten- 

 nessee r., about the mouth of Toco cr., in 

 Monroe co., Tenn. (j. m. ) 



Joco. — Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792 (misprint for 

 Toco). Toco,— Mooiiey in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 614, 

 1900 (traders' name) . Toqua.— Timberlake, Mem- 

 oirs, map, 17G5. Toquah.— Doc. of 1799 quoted bv 

 Royce in 6tli Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887. Toque— 

 Mooney, op. cit. 



Toral. An Ahtena village on Copper 

 r., Alaska, at the mouth of Chitina r. 

 TaraL— Allen, Rep., 48, 1887. Toral.- Post route 

 map, Alaska, 1903. 



Torches. See Illumination. 



Torepe' s Band. A Paviotso band, named 

 from its chief, otherwise called Lean Man, 

 formerly living near the lower crossing 

 of Truckee r., w. Nev. They were under 

 the head chieftaincy of Winnemucca. 

 Pop. 360 in 1859. 



Torape.— Burton, City of Saints, 576, 1861. To- 

 Repe's band.— Dodge in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1859, 374, 

 1860. 



Torhunte. A Tuscarora village, about 

 1711, on a N. affluent of Neuse r., in North 

 Carolina. — War map, 1711-15, in Winsor, 

 Hist. Am., V, 346, 1887. 



Torin. A former populous Yaqui settle- 

 ment on the n. bank of the lower Rio Yaqui, 

 lat. 28°, Ion. 109° 30', Sonora, Mexico. 

 San Ignacio Torin. — Orozco v Berra, Geog., 355, 

 1864. Torim.— Hrdlifika in Am. Anthr., vi, 62, 

 1904. Torin.— Velasco (1850) cited by Bancroft, 

 Nat. Ra,ces, i, 608, 1882. 



Tornait. An Eskimo village on the s. w. 

 coast of Greenland.— Nansen, First Cross- 

 ing of Greenland, ii, 287, 1890. 



Tornait. A winter village of the Nugu- 

 miut Eskimo above Bear sd. , in Frobisher 

 bay, Baffin land. — Boas in 6th Rep. 

 B.A.E.,422, 1888. 



Tornit. A fabulous race which the Cen- 

 tral E.skimo believe to be akin to them- 

 selves, but much taller and stronger, hav- 

 ing very long arms and legs and being able 

 to toss huge bowlders as though they were 

 pebbles. The Akudnirmiut call them Tu- 

 niqdjuait. They lived with the Eskimo 

 in stone houses larger than theirs, as 

 shown by the ruins that are still pointed 

 out. Under their long deerskin coats they 

 carried lamps with which to cook the meat 

 of seals as soon as they were killed. They 

 could make stone implements only, no 

 bows nor kaiaks, but these they stole 

 from the Eskimo, who were afraid to 

 defend their property until a young Es- 

 kimo drilled a hole in the skull of one 

 of them who had ruined liis kaiak, while 

 the giant was asleep. The Tornit then 

 feared that they would all l)e killed, and 

 secretly stole away, cutting off the skirts 

 of their coats and tying up their hair so 

 that they should not be recognized if 

 pursued. TheGreenland Eskimo believed 

 the Tornit to be a mythical race of giants 

 who lived on the ice cap and were seen 

 rarely hunting at the heads of the fiords. 

 The Labrador Eskimo, like those of Hud- 

 son bay and Baffin land, imagine them 

 to be more like themselves. — ^Boas in 6th 



Rep. B. A. E.,634, 640, 1888; Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Can., v, sec. 2, 38, 1888. 



Toro (a contraction of torote, a kind of 

 tree. — Buelna). A settlement of the 

 Mayo on the e. bank of Rio del Fuerte, 

 about lat. 26° 45', in extreme n. Sinaloa, 

 Mexico. Pop. 558 in 1900. 

 Toro.— Hardy, Trav. in Mex., 438, 1829. 



Torope. See Terrapin. 



Torose. A village, presumal)ly Costa- 

 noan, formerly connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Torountogoats {To-ro-unto-go-ats). One 

 of the tribes known under the collective 

 term Gosiute; formerly in Egan canyon, 

 E. Nevada; pop. 204 in 1873. — Powell and 

 Ingalls in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1873, 51, 1874. 



Torreon (Span.: 'round tower'). A 

 small ruined pueblo, probably of the 

 Tigua, at tlie modern town of the same 

 name, about 28 m. e. of Belen, N. Mex. 

 The aboriginal name of the settlement is 

 unknown. According to Bandelier (Arch. 

 Inst. Papers, iv, 259, 1892) the pueblo was 

 asserted to have been of the "small- 

 house" type. 



Toreon. — Loew (1875) in Wheeler Surv. Rep., vii, 

 340, 1879 (misprint). Toreuna. — Bandelier cited 

 in Arch. Inst. Rep., v, 58, 1884. Torreon.— Abert 

 in Sen. Ex. Doc. 23, 30th Cong., 1st sess., 68, 1848. 



Torres. A Kawia village in Cahuilla 

 valley, s. Cal. The name is now applied 

 to a reservation covering the territory 

 where live the Kawia of Torres, Lawilvan, 

 Tova, and Sokut Menyil. It consists of 

 19,200 acres of unpatented desert land 75 

 m. from Mission Tule River agency, in 

 Riverside co. The reservation contained 

 a population of 271 Indians in 1004. 



Torsalla. Given as one of the " Keowee 

 towns" among the Cherokee in a docu- 

 ment of 1755 (Royce in 5th Rep. , B. A. E. , 

 143,1887). Not identified. 



Tortugas (Span.: 'turtles'). An un- 

 identified tribe mentioned by Uhde as 

 formerly living on the Texas coast be- 

 tween the Rio Grande and the Nueces. 

 The name was also applied to a prairie in 

 the tidewater section of Texas where there 

 was a turtle-shaped hill and several re- 

 markable springs of water. At certain sea- 

 sonsof the year this prairie was frequented 

 by the Tonkawa, q. v. (See Uhde, Die 

 Lander, 121, 1861; Sibley, Hist. Sketches, 

 74, 1806; Gatschet, Karankawa Inds., 36, 

 1891.) 



Torture. See Ordeals. 



Toryohne ( ' wolf ' ) . A clan of the 

 Iroquois. 



Cahenhisenhonon. — French writer (l(i6j) in N. Y. 

 Doc. Col. Hist., IX, 47, 1855. gkwa-ri'-na".— Hewitt, 

 inf'n, 1886 (Tuscarora name). Enanthayonni. — 

 French writer (HW,) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.,ix, 

 47, 1855. Okuaho.— Megapolensis (1644), ibid., ni, 

 250, 1853. Tor-yoh-ne. — Morgan, League Iroq., 

 80, 18.51 (Seneca form). 



Tosanachic (Spanish corruption of Tara- 

 humare Rosanachic, 'where there is 

 white,' referring to the white cliffs in the 

 vicinity. — Lumholtz). A pueblo in w. 



