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Show NOTE ON THE HAVASUPAIS. 473 I persuade myself are the Jamajabs, for I heard other nations call them Culisnurs, or Culisnisna, instead of 1854, p. 178: " The Cosninos I presume to be the same as the Coch- nich- nos, whom Mr. [ Antoine] Leroux met in his late journey down the Colorado, although, on account of their hostility, he had no intercourse with them." Mr. Hodge furnishes the following note regarding the Cosninos: A small tribe, more correctly known as Havasupai, but officially recognized as Supai or Suppai, residing in the gorge of Cataract creek, a tributary of the Colorado, in northwestern Arizona. The name Havasupai bears the interpretation " people of the green water," and is believed to refer to the numerous willows that line the banks of the creek where they have made their home since before Garces' time; hence also another designation, " Willow people," or " Nation of the Willows." By others the name is said to be a Walapai term signifying " Down- in people." Although belonging to the Yuman stock, a linguistic group composed of tribes far removed from the culture of the Pueblos, the Havasupai have preserved traditions of their former occupancy of now- ruined pueblos on the Colorado Chiquito, and indeed the cavate lodges near San Francisco mountains still bear the name " Cosonino" or " Cohonino" caves. They are reputed to have abandoned these villages and to have sought refuge in their canon home at the time the Apache made their appearance in the territory which the latter occupied in Arizona until within recent times- a period traceable to about the latter part of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century. The houses of the Havasupai consist of temporary cabins or shelters of wattled canes and branches and earth in summer, and of natural caves and rocky crevices in winter. They subsist by agriculture, although fifty years ago they made hunting excursions for a hundred miles southward. In addition to their crops of corn, calabashes, melons, peaches, and apricots, they eke out a livelihood by means of sunflower |