. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] W ASA BE WASCO 917 Wasabe (' Ijlack bear'). A Kansa jjens, the 5th on the right side of the tribal circle. Sin'-ja-ye-ga.—Morgan, Aiic. Soc, 15(), 1877. Wa- sabe.—Doraey in Rep. B. A. E., 231, 18'.i7. Wasob-be nika-shing-ga.—Stubbs, Kaw MS. vocab., B. A. E., •-'.=), 1877. Wasabehitazhi ('touch not the skin of a black bear'). A aubgens of the Omaha. Wasabe-hif aji.—Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 228, 1897. Wasaenikasbika ('those who became human beings by means of the black bear'). A Quapaw gens. Black-bear gens.—Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 22U, 1897. Wasa


. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] W ASA BE WASCO 917 Wasabe (' Ijlack bear'). A Kansa jjens, the 5th on the right side of the tribal circle. Sin'-ja-ye-ga.—Morgan, Aiic. Soc, 15(), 1877. Wa- sabe.—Doraey in Rep. B. A. E., 231, 18'.i7. Wasob-be nika-shing-ga.—Stubbs, Kaw MS. vocab., B. A. E., •-'.=), 1877. Wasabehitazhi ('touch not the skin of a black bear'). A aubgens of the Omaha. Wasabe-hif aji.—Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 228, 1897. Wasaenikasbika ('those who became human beings by means of the black bear'). A Quapaw gens. Black-bear gens.—Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 22U, 1897. Wasa' e'nikaci':{a.—Ibirl. Wasamegin. See Massasott. Wasapetun ('having four locks of hair'). The 12th Osage gens, the 5th on the right side of the tribal circle, being composed of two of the original Hangka fireplaces, Sindtsakdhe and Wasapetun. Black bear.—Dorsey in Am. Nat., 11-1, ISSl. Wasa'de tu".—Dorsey In 15th Rep. B. A. E., 234, 1897. Wasapokent. A village situated in 1608 on the w. bank of Patuxent r., in St Marys CO., Md. Wasapekent.—Bozman, Md., 1,141,1837. Wasapo- kent,—Smith (1(VJ9), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. Wasasa's Village. A former Cherokee settlement, named from a chief, situated on Browns cr., a southern affluent of the Tennessee r. in n. Alabama.—Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1887. Wascacug. A village on the e. bank of Patuxent r. in Calvert co., Md., in 1(508.— Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. Wasco (from the Wasco word loacrj.'o, ' cup or small bowl of horn,' the reference being to a cup-shaped rock a short dis- tance from the main village of the tribe; from the tribal name Galas(jfo, 'Those that belong to Wasco,' or 'Those that have the cup,' are derived many of the forms of the name that follow in the synonymy. The derivation of the name from the ShahaptianyrasLO?, 'grass,' lacks probability). A Chinookan tribe for- merly living on the s. side of Columbia r., in the neighborhood of The Dalles, in Wasco CO., Oreg. This t


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