File:Bulletin (1907) (20426466645).jpg

Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin3011907smit (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
BULL. 30) BOUSCOUTTON BOWLEGS. 163 rendered its lands and removed to Indian Ter. This attitude made liim so unpopu- lar that on June 22, 1839, he was set upon and murdered, although not with the knowledge or connivance of the tribal officers. See Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 1900; Pilling, Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages, Bull. B. A. E., 1888. Bouscoutton. The northernmost divi- sion of the Cree, living in 1658-71 about the s. shores of Hudson bay. According to Dr William Jones the Chippewa refer to the northernmost dwelling place of the Cree as Ininiwitoskwuning, 'atthe man's elbow,'and Antriwat-otoskwuning, 'they dwell at the elbow.' This iintcnvdt is probably the term usually prefixed, in one form or another, to the name Bous- coutton. Ataouabouscatouek.—Je9.Rel.,1658, 21,1858. Outao- uoisbouscottous.—Tailhan, Perrot, 293, note, 1864. Outaouois, Bouscouttous.—Prise de possession (1671) in Margry, Dt^c, i, 97, 1875 (comma evi- dently inserted by mistake). Boutte Station. A village in St Charles parish. La., at which lived a camp of Choctaw who manufactured cane bas- ketry and gathered the okra which was ground into gumbo file.—Harris, La. Products, 203, 1881. Bowl, The (a translation of his native name, D'nra^Ht), also called Col. Bowles. A noted Cherokee chief and leader of one of the first bands to establisli themselves permanently on the w. side of the Mis- sissippi. At the head of some hostile Cherokee from the Chickamauga towns he massacred all of the male members of a party of emigrants at Muscle shoals in Tennessee r. in 1794, after which he re- tired up St. Francis r. on the w. side of the Mississippi, and, his act being dis- owned by the Cherokee council, who offered to assist in his arrest, he remained in that region until after the cession of (,ouisiana Territory to the United States. About 1824 so much dissatisfaction was caused by delay in adjusting the boun- daries of the territory of the Western Cherokee in Arkansas and the withhold- ing of their annuities that a party headed by Bowl crossed Sabine r. into Texas, where they were joined by bodies of refugees from a number of other eastern tribes and began negotiations with the Mexican government for a tract of land on Angelina, Neches, and Trinity rs., but were interrupted by the outbreak of the Texan war for independence in 1835. Houston, who had long been a friend of the Cherokee, entered into a treaty to assign them certain lands along Angelina r., but it was rejected by the Texas senate in 1837, and Houston's successor, Lamar, declared his intention to drive all the Indians from Texas. On the plea that they were entering into a conspiracy with the Mexican inhabitants, a commission,
Text Appearing After Image:
BOWLDER Outline Representino A QUADRUPED; South Dakota; LENGTH 15 Ft. IThOMAs) supported by several regiments of troops, was sent to the Cherokee town on Ange- lina r. to demand that they remove at once across the border. On their refusal they were attacked, July 15-16, 1839, and defeated in two engagements, Bowl and his assistant chief. Hard-mush, being among the many killed. See Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 1900. (j. r. s.) Bowlder outlines. Certain outline sur- face figures, probably of Siouan origin, usually formed of l^owlders a foot or less in diameter, though a few consisted of buffalo bones. The name "bowlder mosaics" was first applied to them by Todd. Ac- cording to Lewis, structures of this type have been found from w. Iowa and Ne- braska to Manitoba, and from w. Minne- sota through North and South Dakota to Montana; but they appear tobe, or rather to have been, more frequent in South Dakota than in any other section. These remains consist of animal, human, and other figures out- lined upon the surface of the ground, usually on elevated sites, the human, turtle," and serpent figures being by far the most numerous. In Dakota the out- lines are generally accompanied with small stone circles, known to be old tipi sites. In some instances long lines of bowlders or buffalo bones and small stone cairns have been found associated with them or occurring in their immedi- ate neighborhood. Like the bowlder circles these are more or less embedded in the ground, but this does not necessa- rily indicate great antiquity; indeed, their frequent association with tipi cir- cles seems to denote that they are com- paratively recent. The accompanying turtle figure illustrates the type. Among the Crows of Montana a bowlder outline figure is made in the form of a woman to commemorate the unfaithfulness of a wife. Consult Lewis in Am. Anthrop., ii, Apr., 1889, III, Julv, 1890; Simms, ibid., n. s., v,374, 1903; Thomas in 12th Rep. B. A. E., 534,1894; Todd in Am. Natural- ist, Jan., 1884. (c. t.) Bowlegs (probably corrupted from Bo- lek). An inferior Seminole chief who was brought temporarily into notice in 1812 during the Indian war on the Geor- gia frontier. When early in that year King Paine, also a Seminole chief, at the head of sundry bands of Seminole and negroes, started on a mission of blood and plunder. Bowlegs joined him. A small force under Capt. Williams was met and

Note About Images