The Natural History of the Varieties of ManLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
_Locality._--West of the Red River, 200 miles from Nacogdoches.
Name only known. Enumerated in the Mithridates.
NAVAOSOS(?).
Of the Navaosos, I only know that they are said to be a branch of the
Lipans. If so, and if also they are _Navahos_, we are enabled to fix
the Lipans as Paduca. They are extinct in Texas.
MAYES.
_Locality._--St. Bernard's Bay. Name only known. Enumerated in
the Mithridates.
CANCES.
_Locality._--Ditto, ditto.
TONCAHUAS.
The Toncahuas, or Tonkeways, are mentioned by Kennedy as being, like
the Lipans, the hereditary enemies of the Cumanches, and as retreating
before them from the hunting grounds of the upper country.
On the other hand, I find that Mr. Bollaert makes them an offset of the
Cumanches. In 1845 they numbered about 300 souls.
TUHUKTUKIS (TAHOOKATUKES).
The Tuhuktukis are members of the Cherokee confederacy; within, but not
considered indigenous to, Texas.
UNATAQUAS.
_Synonym._--Anadarcos.
The Unataquas are members of the Cherokee confederacy; within, but not
indigenous to, Texas.
MASCOVIE.
IAWANIS (_Ionis_).
Each of these divisions (of which the value is unascertained) are
members of the Cherokee confederacy.
WICO(?)[132]
_Locality.-_-Head waters of the upper Red River, conterminous
with the Kioways and Cumanch.
AVOYELLES.
WASHITAS.
_Original Locality._--West of the Mississippi. Extinct or
incorporated.
KETCHIES.
XARAMENES.
CAICACHES.
Extinct.
BIDIAS.
_Locality._--Middle part of Trinity River. _Numbers._--In 1845,
ten families only.
A MS. of Mr. Bollaert's, and the work of Kennedy, on Texas, have been
the chief authorities for the previous. The notes of interrogation
show the extent to which it may be amended. _Data_ for doing this are
probably more abundant in America than here.
For the whole area between the three oceans--(Arctic, Pacific, and
Atlantic)--and the break formed by the Paducas, the chief groups have
now been enumerated--perhaps exhaustively, or nearly so.
Not, however, finally. Although the details of even the wider
groups have been so numerous as to make the present notice of them
_classificational_ rather than _descriptive_, there are still a certain
series of facts which, from having a significance beyond that of their
mere occurrence, require notice.
Whatever has an important bearing upon the following two great problems
comes under this category--
1. The unity or non-unity of the American populations, one amongst
another.
2. The unity or non-unity of the American populations as compared with
those of the Old World.
1. The unity or non-unity of the American populations one amongst
another--a short history of the different opinions upon this point will
give two things at once--_a_, the history itself, and, _b_, the chief
facts by which changes in it were brought about.
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