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WECQUAESGEEK WEITSPUS 



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■Wiechquaeskeck.— Treaty of 1660 in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., XIII, 148, 1881. Wiechquaesqueck. — 

 Doc. of 1663, ibid., 282. Wiechquaskeck.— Treaty 

 of 1664, ibirt., 375. Wieckquaeskecke — Stuyvesant 

 (1664), ibid., 365. Wiequaeskeck — Deed of 1649, 

 ibid., 24. Wiequaskeck.— Doc. of 1655, ibid., 52. 

 Wighquaeskeek.— Deed quoted in Ruttenber, op. 

 cit., 366. Wikagyl.— Map of 1614 in N. Y. Doe. 

 Col. Hist., I, 1856. Wiquaeshex. — Treaty of 1645 

 quoted bv Ruttenber, Tril)t's Hudson R., 118, 

 1872. Wiquaeskeck.— Treaty of 1644 in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., XIII, 17, 1881. Wiskerscreeke. — Andros 

 (1680), ibid., 546. Witqueschack.— Doc. of 1644, 

 ibid., I, 151, 1856. Witquescheck.— Doc. of 1646, 

 ibid., 184. Witqueschreek.— Doc. of 1646, ibid., 183. 

 Wyckerscreeke.— Doc. of 1671, ibid., XIll, 460, 1881. 

 Wyquaesquec— Doc. of 1641, ibid., I, 415, 1856. 



Wecquaesgeek. The principal village 

 of the Wecquaesgeek, situated on the 

 Hudson at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester co , 

 N. Y. Its outlines could be traced in re- 

 cent times by numerous shell beds. 

 Weckquaesguk. — Trumbull. Ind. Names Conn., 81, 

 1881. Weckquaskeck. — Ruttenber, Tribes Hudson 

 R., 7S, 1872 Wickquaskeck. — Van der Donck 

 (1656) quoted by Ruttenber, ibid., 72. 



Wecuppom. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, situated in 1608 on the n. 

 bank of the Rappahannock in Richmond 

 CO., Va. 



Mecuppom.— Simons in Smith (1629), Va., I, 185, 

 repr. 1819 (misprint). "Wecuppom.^mith, ibid., 

 map. 



Wedges. Wedges were probably in 

 most general use among the woodworking 

 tribes of the far N. W. They 

 are made of wood, stone, 

 bone, antler, and copper, but 

 of late years iron and steel 

 have come into favor. These 

 implements are employed in 

 cutting out and splitting lum- 

 ber for house and boat build- 

 ing, for firewood, and for 

 other purposes. Wedges re- 

 semble celts and chisels in 

 general shape, but are not so 

 carefully finished and neces- 

 sarily show the effect of bat- 

 tering from use under the hammer or 

 maul. The heads of wooden wedges are 

 sometimes protected by a cap of tough 

 withes or spruce roots. Besides the wood- 

 working wedges small wedges of various 

 materials were in common use for tighten- 

 ing fastenings of implement hafts and 

 for like purposes. See Woodivork. 



For ilhistrations, see Niblack in Rep. 

 Nat. Mus. 1888, 1890; Nelson in 18th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 1899; Smith in Mem. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist, II, 1900; Teit, ibid.; Mason in 

 Rep. Nat. Mus. 1886, 1889. (w. h. h.) 



Weechitokha. A former Seminole town 

 between Suwannee and Santa Fe rs., in 

 S. w. Columbia CO., Fla. -H. R. Ex. Doc. 

 74 (1823), 19th Cong., 1st sess., 27, 1826. 

 Weendigo ('cannibal'). A mythical 

 tribe of cannibals said by the Chippewa 

 and Ottawa to inhabit an island in Hud- 

 son bay. Some of the Chippewa who 

 dwelt on the n. w. shore of L. Superior 

 were said to practise cannibalism and were 



called by this name. The Maskegon on 

 the shores of Hudson bay, though re- 

 proached as cannibals by the other tribes, 

 were said to be themselves in constant 

 fear of the Weendigo. 



Onaouientagos.— Bacqueville de la Potherie. Hist., 

 II, 49, 1753 (mi.sprint). Weendegoag — Tanner, 

 Narr., 316, 1830 (Ottawa form). Weendigoes.— 

 Kane, Wanderings of an Artist, 60, 18-59. Windi- 

 gos.— Kingsley, Stand. Nat. Hi.st., pt. 6, 153, 1883. 



Weequashing. See Wigwassmg. 



Weesick. A popular name in Connecti- 

 cut for the fall herring, Alosa mattowacca. 

 The meaning is unknown. (w k g.) 



Weesowhetko ( Wee-soiv-het'-ko, ' yellow 

 tree')- A subgens of the Delawares. — 

 Morgan, Anc. Soc, 172, 1877. 



Weesquobs. A village of Praying In- 

 dians in 1674 near the present Pocasset, 

 Barnstable co., Mass. (Bourne, 1694, in 

 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Ists., i, 197, 1806), 

 probably subject to the Wampanoag. 



Weetamoo. See Wetamoo. 



Wehatsa. The Calabash clan of Jemez 

 pueblo, N. Mex A corresponding clan 

 existed also at the related pueblo of Pecos . 



Wa-ha.— Hewett in Am. Antlir., n. s., VI, 431, 1904 

 (Pecos form). "Wa'-ha'-ha'. — Hodge in Am. 

 Anthr., ix, 349, 1896 (Pecos form). Wehatsa- 

 ash. — Ibid. (Jemez form; ash=:: ' people ' ). 



Weinshauks. A Pequot village in 1636, 

 the residence of Sassacus, the principal 

 chief. On a map drawn by Williams in 

 16.36 ( see Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. , 3d s. , i, 161, 

 1825) it is located between Thames and 

 Mystic rs., near the present Groton, New 

 London co., Conn. 



Weitspekan Family. A linguistic family 

 consisting of the Yurok (q. v. ) tribe alone, 

 inhabiting the lower Klamath r. valley 

 and the adjacent coast in n. California 

 The name is an adaptation of Weitsjjus 

 (q. v.). 



=Weits-pek.— Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 III, 422, 1853 (a band and language on Klamath at 

 junction of Trinity); Latham, Elem.Comp.Philol., 

 410, 1862 (junction of Klamatl and Trinity rs.); 

 Gatschet in Mag. Am. Hist., 163, 1877 (affirmed to be 

 distinct from any neighboring tongue); Gatschet 

 in Beach, Ind. Misc., 438, 1877. < Weitspek.— 

 Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond., 77, 1866 

 (junction of Klamatl and Trinicy rs.; Weyot and 

 Wishosk dialects); Latham, Opuscula, 343, 1860. 

 =Eurocs. — Powers in Overland Mo., viii,530, June 

 1872 (of the lower Klamath and coastwise; Weit- 

 spek, a village of ). =Eurok.— Gatschet in Mag. 

 Am. Hist., 163, 1877: Gatschet in Beach, Ind. Misc., 

 437, 1877. = Yu-rok.— Powers in Cont. N. A. 

 Ethnol., Ill, 45, 1877 (from junction of Trinity to 

 mouth and coastwise); Powell, ibid., 460 (vocabs. 

 of Al-i-kwa, Klamath, Yu'-rok). X Klamath, — 

 Keane in Stanford, Compend., Cent, and So. Am., 

 475, 1878 (Eurocs belong here). ='Weitspekan. — 

 Powell in 7th Rep. B. A. E., 131, 1891. 



Weitspus (from Weitspekw, the name of 

 a spring in the village. — Kroeber). A 

 Yurok village on lower Klamath r., op- 

 posite the mouth of the Trinity, n. w. Cal. 

 This was one of the most populous Yurok 

 villages, and one of only two or three at 

 which both the Deerskin dance and the 

 Jumping dance were held It is now a 

 post-office under the name of Weitchpec. 

 Including the settlements on the opposite 



