. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] CHIPISCLIN—CHIPPEWA 277 fortified gaps before the pueblo is reached. The site was impregnable to any form of attack ]>ossible to savage warfare. The commanding position was at the gateway to the Tevva country e. of the mountains, and, according to tradition, it was the function of Chipiinuinge to withstand as far as possible the fierce Navaho and Apache raids from the n. w. The i)ueblo was built entirely of stone and was of 3 stories, in places possibly 4. Portions of second-story walls are still standing and many cedar timbers are well preserved. The remain
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] CHIPISCLIN—CHIPPEWA 277 fortified gaps before the pueblo is reached. The site was impregnable to any form of attack ]>ossible to savage warfare. The commanding position was at the gateway to the Tevva country e. of the mountains, and, according to tradition, it was the function of Chipiinuinge to withstand as far as possible the fierce Navaho and Apache raids from the n. w. The i)ueblo was built entirely of stone and was of 3 stories, in places possibly 4. Portions of second-story walls are still standing and many cedar timbers are well preserved. The remains of b5 kivas, mostly circular, a few rectangular, are still traceable in and about the ruins; these were all mostly if not wholly subterranean, having been excavated in the rock surface on which the pueblo stands. The cliff-dwellings in the e. face of the mesa are all of the excavated type, and appear to have been used for mortuary quite as much as for domiciliary purposes. (e. l. h. ) Chipisclin. A former village, presuma- bly Costanoan, connected with Dolores mission, San Francisco, Cal.—Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. Chipletac. A former village, presuma- bly Costanoan, connected with Dolores mission, San Francisco, Cal.—Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. Chipmunk. The common name of the striped ground squirrel ( Tamias siriatus), of which the variants chipmonk, chip- muck, chitmunk, and others occur. The word has been usually derived from the "chipping" of theanimal, but(Chamber- lain in Am. Notes and Queries, iii, , 1889) it is clearly of Algonquian origin. The word cJiij^ymink is really identical with the adjidcmmo ('tail-in-air') of Longfel- low's Hiawatha, the Chippewa atchitavion, the name of the ordinary red squirrel {Sci- unis hudsonicu.^). The Chippewa vocabu- lary of Long (1791) gives for scjuirrel chetamon, and ^Irs Traill, in her Canadian Crusoes, 1854, writes the English word as chitmunk. By folk etymology, there- fore, the Algonqui
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