. Bulletin. Ethnology. BCLL. 30] PARCHED CORN INDIANS PARKER 203 Dictamen Fiscal, Nov. 30, 1716, ibid., 183). (h. e. b.) Pachaques.—Fernando del Bosque (1675), op. cit. Parchacas.—Massanet, lti91, op. cit. Parched Corn Indians. A name indef- initely applied. "In most of our Ameri- can colonies there yet remain a few of the natives, who formerly inhabited those extensive countries . . We call them 'Parched-corn-Indians,' because they chiefly use it for bread, are civilized and live mostly by ;—Adair, Am. Inds., 343, 1775. Parchinas. Mentioned Ijy Rivera (Diario, leg. 2602, 17
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BCLL. 30] PARCHED CORN INDIANS PARKER 203 Dictamen Fiscal, Nov. 30, 1716, ibid., 183). (h. e. b.) Pachaques.—Fernando del Bosque (1675), op. cit. Parchacas.—Massanet, lti91, op. cit. Parched Corn Indians. A name indef- initely applied. "In most of our Ameri- can colonies there yet remain a few of the natives, who formerly inhabited those extensive countries . . We call them 'Parched-corn-Indians,' because they chiefly use it for bread, are civilized and live mostly by ;—Adair, Am. Inds., 343, 1775. Parchinas. Mentioned Ijy Rivera (Diario, leg. 2602, 1736) as a tribe or village apparently near the lower Rio Grande in s. Texas. Probably Coahuil- tecan. Parfleche (pron. par^-Jieslt). The ordi- nary skin box of the Plains and Rocky mtn. tribes, made of stiff-dressed raw- hide from which the hair has been re- moved. It is usually of rectangular shape, varying from 2 by 3 ft in size for the largest boxes—used as clothes trunks, for storing food, etc.—to small pouches. PARFLECHE PACKING-CASE OF THE PLAINS TRIBES. (Mason) for holding paints, mirrors, or other toilet articles. Those used for storing cloth- ing are made in pairs, two to each bed in the tipi, by trimming the rawhide to proper form while still pliable, folding over the edges upon each other, and fastening them in place by means of strings of skins passed through holes near the sides. The surface is painted with designs in various colors, and at times a fringe is added. Round boxes, somewhat resembUng a quiver in shape, are made of the same material for holding feathers and decorative war-bonnets. In other sections baskets of various kinds, boxes of bark or matting, or bags of grass or soft- dressed skin, took the place of parfleche. The word is of doubtful origin, but as commonly spelled appears in French nar- ratives as early as 1700, and is probably from some old French root, possibly from parer' to parry,'feche 'arrow,' in reference originally to the shield
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