The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))McGee, W J
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The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))
McGee, W J
Seri Indians; Seri language; Yuman languages
*ISLA TASSNE (Pelican island): Name recast by the use of the
Seri specific in lieu of the Spanish (Alcatráz), which is too
hackneyed for distinctive use.
ISLA TURNER (Turner island): Name used (and probably applied
in honor of Rear-Admiral Thomas Turner, U. S. N.) by the
Hydrographic Office, U. S. N.
ISLA PATOS (Duck island—i. e., Island of Ducks): Name of long
standing; adopted by the Hydrographic Office, U. S. N.
ROCA FOCA (Seal rock): Name used (and probably applied) by the
Hydrographic Office, U. S. N.
PEÑA BLANCA (White crag): Name used (and probably applied) by
the Hydrographic Office, U. S. N.
PUNTA TEPOPA (Tepopa point): Named (probably corruptly) from
a local tribe related to the Seri; used by the Hydrographic
Office, U. S. N.
PUNTA SARGENT (Sargent point): Name applied by Lieutenant Hardy
in 1826 to what is now known as Punta Tepopa; adopted for the
minor point by the Hydrographic Office, U. S. N.
*PUNTA PERLA (Pearl point): Name applied in commemoration of
the traditional pearl fisheries of the vicinity.
*PUNTA ARENA (Sand point): A descriptive designation.
*PUNTA TORTUGA (Turtle point): Name applied in recognition of
the extensive turtle fisheries of the Seri in the vicinity.
*PUNTA TORMENTA (Hurricane point): Name applied in recognition
of the nearly continuous gales and tide-rips by which
navigation is rendered hazardous, and by which the long
sand-spit has been built.
PUNTA MIGUEL (Miguel point): Recast from “San Miguel point”,
partly through association with the name of a Papago guard
accompanying the expedition of 1895; in the old form the name
is of long standing, was probably applied by Escalante in 1700,
and was adopted by the Hydrographic Office, U. S. N., 1873.
*PUNTA GRANITA (Granite point): A descriptive designation.
*PUNTA BLANCA (White point): A descriptive designation.
*PUNTA NARRAGANSETT (Narragansett point): Specific (of
Algonquian Indian derivation) applied in commemoration of the
vessel employed in the surveys by the Hydrographic Office, U.
S. N., in 1873, the point being that at which the commander of
the _Narragansett_ located the principal Seri rancheria of that
time and made observations on the tribe.
*PUNTA YGNACIO (Ygnacio point): Specific applied in honor of
Don Ygnacio Lozania, a trusted aid in the 1895 expedition,
who had visited this point in connection with the Andrade
expedition of 1844; described as “Dark bluff” on charts of the
Hydrographic Office, U. S. N.
*PUNTA ANTIGUALLA (Antiquity point—i. e., Point of
Antiquities): Name applied in recognition of a great
shell-mound which has retarded the transgression of the sea and
produced the point.
PUNTA KINO (Kino point): Name of long standing; specific in
honor of the early missionary; used by the Hydrographic Office,
U. S. N.
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