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Show 474 NOTE ON THE HAVASUPAIS. Jamajabs, though I cannot understand how the Indian informant went from their rancherias, for these are enemies of the pueblos of Moqui, and before my passage were also ( enemies) of the intermediate Yabipais. It is certain that these Jamajabs or Culisnisnas know from the Yabipais Tejua and from the Yumas that we live in these lands. The Chidumas, who I persuade myself are the Yumas, 28 up to the present time have I not heard that they eat human flesh, as the Indian informed the reverend padre. As to the sierras he speaks of, he does not go far from the truth, for it is certain that there are those two sierras; but as to the points of the compass and the number of days there is much contradiction in the notion of the reverend padre that the transit has itself to seek ( t. e., must be sought) through the Yutas who live at the conflu-seeds, prickly- pears ( tunas), and mescal, together with the limited game supply afforded by the immediately surrounding country. Population in 1896, 253. Other forms of their name are: Agua Supais, Ah- supai, Ava- supies, Casinos, Casnino, Co-a- ni- nis, Cochineans, Cochnichnos, Coconinos, Cohoninos, Cojnino, Cominas, Coninas, Cosninas, Cuesninas, Cuismer, Culisnisnas, Culisnurs, Habasopis, Havasopis, Hava- su- pay, Havesu- pai, Havisua Pai, Java Supais, Javeusa, Kochonino, Ku'h- nis, Supies, Supis, Suppai, Tonto Cosnino, Yavai Suppai, Yuva- Supai.- F. W. H. * This is correct, in the sense that the Chidumas of Escalante were the Yuman tribe variously called Alchedomas, Halche-domas, Jalchedomas, Jalchedums, etc. |