. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] CO WEE COWLITZ 355 Cowee (from Kmri^, abbreviated form of Katci'ifi, which in possibly a contrac- tion of Ani^-kaw'/}ft, ' place of the Deer clan'). A former important Cherokee settlement a])0ut the mouth of Cowee cr. of Little Tennessee r., about 10 m. below Franklin, Macon co., N. C.—Mooney in 19th Hep. B. A. E.,525, 1900. Cowe.—Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792. Coweeshee. Given as a Cherokee town in the Keowee district, n. w. S. C; exact locality uncertain.—Doc. of 1755 quoted by Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 143, 1887. Coweset ('place of small pine trees.'— Truml)
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] CO WEE COWLITZ 355 Cowee (from Kmri^, abbreviated form of Katci'ifi, which in possibly a contrac- tion of Ani^-kaw'/}ft, ' place of the Deer clan'). A former important Cherokee settlement a])0ut the mouth of Cowee cr. of Little Tennessee r., about 10 m. below Franklin, Macon co., N. C.—Mooney in 19th Hep. B. A. E.,525, 1900. Cowe.—Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792. Coweeshee. Given as a Cherokee town in the Keowee district, n. w. S. C; exact locality uncertain.—Doc. of 1755 quoted by Royce in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 143, 1887. Coweset ('place of small pine trees.'— Truml)ull). A small tribe or band for- merly living in N. Rhode Island, w. of Blackstone r. In 1637 they were subject to the Narraganset, but had thrown off the connection by 1660. (j. m. ) Cawesitt.—Gookin (1674) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., I, 147, 1S06. Corvesets.—Williams (ltiS2), ibid., 2d s., vn, 76, 1818 (misprint). Cowesets.— Williams (1660) in R. I. Col. Kec, i, 460, 1S56. Cowwesets.—Williams and Olney (1660), ibid., i, 39-41. Co-wweseuck.—Williams (1643) in Mass. Hist. Soe. Coll., 1st s., in, 20'i, 1794 (name bv the tribe). Cowwesit.—Williams(1675), ibid., 4th S., VI, 300, 1863. Cowiclian. A group of Salish tribes speaking a single dialect and occupying the s. K. coast of Vancouver id. between Nonoos bay and Sanitch inlet, and tlie. COWICHAN MAN. NAT. HrST.) valley of lower Fraser r. nearly to Spuz- ziun, Brit. Col. The various bands and tribes belonging to this group aggregated 2,991 in 1902. The following list of Co- wichan tribes is based on information obtained from Boas: On Vancouver id.— Clemclemalats, Comiakin, Hellelt, Ken- ipsim, Kilpanlus, Koksilah, Kulleets, Lil- malche, Malakut, Nanaimo, Penelakut, Quamichan, Siccameen, Snonowas, So- menos, Tateke, and Yekolaos. On lower Fraser r.—Chehalis, Chilliwack, Coquit- 1am, Ewawoos, Katsey, Kelatl, Kwantlin, Matsqni, Musqueam,' Nicomen, Ohamil, Pilalt, Popkum, Scowlitz, Siyita, Sewa- t
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