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on the designs and they were paid hand- 

 somely. (For specific descriptions see 

 works cited below.) In comparatively 

 modern times numbers of models of these 

 poles have been made by native carvers to 

 sell to white visitors. These are some- 

 times of wood, sometimes of a peculiar 

 black slate found at one place not far from 

 Skidegate, Queen Charlotte ids. Accord- 

 ing to native Haida accounts carved de- 

 signs were originally made directly on the 

 front slabs of the house, afterwartl on a 

 broad, thick plank, and finally on poles. 

 This comparatively modern evolution is 

 corroborated by the Tlingit, who have 

 only the grave post, upon which they 

 carve representations of stories as well as 

 crests. Tsimshian posts were more slen- 

 der than those put up by the Haida, 

 but the ones erected in front of Kwakiutl 

 houses are usually much more slender 

 still, and all are heraldic, referring to 

 the tradition of the house-owner. The 

 main supporting posts bear crests or re- 

 cord an episode connected with the 

 building of the house. The main posts 

 which support the houses of the Nootka 

 and the coast Salish, when carved at 

 all, represented an event that happened 

 to the owner, such as the acquiring of 

 a guardian spirit, or an event in the his- 

 tory of his sejit. Some eastern tribes, 

 such as the Creeks, Delawares, Shawnee, 

 and Iroquois, set up small poles that are 

 analogous to these totem poles, although 

 the outward resemblance is slight. Those 

 of the Delawares and Shawnee were 

 erected in the four corners of their medi- 

 cine-lodges, while those of the Iroquois 

 were similarly placed in the houses of 

 shamans and were adorned with repre- 

 sentations of the shamans' tutelary spirits. 



Consult Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 

 1897, and in recent reports of the Brit. 

 A. A. S. ; Niblack in Nat. Mus. Rep. 1888, 

 1890; Swan in Smithson. Cont., xxi, 

 1874; Swanton, (1) Cont. Haida, 1905, (2) 

 in 26th Rep. B. A. E., 1908. (,i. r. s.) 



Totero. The settlement of the Tutelo 

 (q. V. ), in the middle of the ISth century, 

 on Meherrin r., Va. According to Cates- 

 by (Nat. Hist. Car., ii, xi, 1743) "the 

 houses were built with strong posts or 

 trees drove into the ground close to one 

 another, the interstices being stopped up 

 with moss, and covered with the bark of 

 the sweet-gum tree." 



Totheet. A Massachuset village in 1614, 

 on the N. shore of Plymouth co., Mass. 

 Tothect.— Smith (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 3d s., VI, 108,1837 (misprint). Totheet— Smith 

 (1629), Va., II, 1S3, repr. 1819. 



Totiakton ( 'it is a bend of the stream' ). 

 The large palisaded western " castle " 

 of the Seneca tribe, situated in the 

 17th century on the Honeoye outlet, not 

 far from Honeoye Falls, in Monroe co., 

 N. Y. This castle was the residence of 

 the noted Seneca federal chief Shadeka- 

 ronhies, representing the lourth and last 



brotherhood of Seneca federal chiefs. 

 The castle was sometimes known by his 

 name. In 1687 it was, with the three 

 others, destroyed by Denonville and was 

 not rebuilt, as the Seneca thereafter re- 

 tired eastward, westward, and southward, 

 establishing their villages in the Genessee 

 valley and in the vicinity of Canandai- 

 gua lake. (.i. n. b. h.) 



Danoncaritaoui. — Lahontan, New Voy., I, 77, 1703. 

 Da-yo-de-hok'-to. — Morgan, League Iroq., 19, 1851. 

 Beyudehaakdoh. — Charlevoix, New Fr., in, 289, 

 1868. Father Fremin's^ village. — Gallinee map, 

 ca. 1670. Kanon'kei'^ahwi'. — J. N. B. Hewitt, 

 inf'n (correct Seneca form). La Conception.— 

 Greenhalgh (1677) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist.,iii,2.i2, 

 1853. Sha'tekar6"hyes. — Hewitt, inf'n (correct 

 Mohawkform; theSenecaformomitsthe i-). Son- 

 nontouan.— Jes. Rel. 1657, 45, 185S. Tegarondies.— 

 Hennepin, New Discov., 53, 1698. Tegaronhies. — 

 Lahontan (1703), New Voy., i, 77, 1735. Thegaron- 

 hies.— Ibid., 1703. Theodehacto.— Cortland (1687) 

 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., iii, 435, 1853. Tiotehat- 

 ton.— Greenhalgh (1677), ibid,, 251. Tiotohat- 

 ton. — Greenhalgh (1677) quoted by Morgan, 

 League Iroq., 316, 1851. Tohaiton. — Belmont 

 (1687) quoted bv Conover, MS., B. A. E. Totiak- 

 to.— Denonville (1687) in N. Y. Doe. Col. Hist., ix, 

 367, 1855. Totiakton.— Denonville (1687) quoted 

 by Morgan, op. cit., 316. 



Totola. A village, presumably Costa- 

 noan, formerly connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. — Tavlor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. 



Totoma (from t!d't!d, 'thin'). A for- 

 mer Maidu village on the e. side of the 

 N. branch of Feather r., about midway be- 

 tween Yankee and Hengv, Butte co., Cal. 



T6-to.— Powers in Cont. N. A. EthnoL.llI, 282,1877. 

 Totoma.— Dixon in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XVII, map, 1905. Totvi.— Curtin, MS. vocab., B. 

 A. E., 1885. 



Totontaratonhronon ( 'otter people': Hu- 

 ron name). A small Algonquian tribe 

 living on St Lawrence r., probably near 

 the mouth of Ottawa r. , Canada. In 1641 

 they removed to the Huron mission of 

 St Jean Baptiste (q. v. ) and had 15 houses, 

 having been driven out of their own 

 country. (j. n. b. h.) 



Atonthratarhonon. — Jes. Rel., Ill, index, 1858. 

 Atontrataronnons. — Jes. Rel. 1644, 100, 1858. Aton- 

 tratas.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 356, 1855. Atontra- 

 toronons.— Raguenean (1653) quoted by Shea in 

 Charlevoix, Hist. New Fr., ii, 256, note, 1866. 

 Tonthratarhonon. — Jes. Rel., Ill, index, 1858. 

 Tontthrataronons.— Jes. Rel. 1641, 83, 1858. Toton- 

 taratonhronon.— Jes. Rel. 1640, 35, 1858. 



Totopotomoi. Principal chief of the 

 Pamunkey Indians (q. v.) of Virginia 

 about 1650. He seems to have been the 

 second in succession from Opechanca- 

 nough (q. v. ), the last chief of the confed- 

 erated Powhatan triVjes, slain by the 

 English in 1644. In 1656 he joined the 

 Virginia forces with nearly 100 warriors 

 to repel an invasion by the inland tribes, 

 but in a bloody engagement on James r., 

 near the present Richmond, the Virgin- 

 ians were defeated, and Totopotomoi, with 

 nearly all of his warriors, was killed. 

 So bitter was the feeling against the com- 

 mander, Col. P^dward Hill, for the dis- 

 astrous result, that he was deprived of all 

 official position and his property confis- 

 cated to pay the expenses of the expedition. 



