. Bulletin. Ethnology. WACONTASK WADJAHONAK iB. A. E. Yet, if the later Waco had kept this name throughout the 18th century, it is strange that it should not appear in some of the many Spanish reports and descrip- tions of them under the name Tawakoni, after 1770. It has been thought that the Quainco of De 1'Isle's map are the same as the Waco. That the Waco village of the 19th cen- tury was identical with one or the other of the two neighboring Tawakoni vil- lages on the Brazos, known in the later 18th century respectively as the village of El Quiscat and that of the Flechazos, is clear, thou
. Bulletin. Ethnology. WACONTASK WADJAHONAK iB. A. E. Yet, if the later Waco had kept this name throughout the 18th century, it is strange that it should not appear in some of the many Spanish reports and descrip- tions of them under the name Tawakoni, after 1770. It has been thought that the Quainco of De 1'Isle's map are the same as the Waco. That the Waco village of the 19th cen- tury was identical with one or the other of the two neighboring Tawakoni vil- lages on the Brazos, known in the later 18th century respectively as the village of El Quiscat and that of the Flechazos, is clear, though it is not easy to determine which one, since both were in the imme- diate neighborhood of Waco. As the ethnology, customs, and early history of these two villages are quite fully given. LONG SOLDIER—A WACO under Tawakoni, they need not be de- scribed here. About 1824, according to Stephen F. Austin, the main Waco village consisted of 33 grass houses, occupying about 40 acres, and inhabited by about 100 men. Half a mile below was another village of 15 houses, built close together. The Waco were then cultivating about 200 acres of corn, enclosed with brush fences ("Description of Waco Villages," n. d., in Austin Papers, Class D). At the site of the Waco village a native earthwork, like that of their kindred, the Taovayas (Tawehash), and known to have been used for military purposes as late as 1829, is said to have been until very recently still visible at the city of Waco (Kenney in Wooten, Comp. His. Tex., i, 745, 1898). For the relations of the tribe with the Anglo-American Texans, see Kenney, op. cit. The Waco were included in the treaties made between the United States and the Wichita in 1835 and 1846, and also in 1872, when their reservation in the present Oklahoma was established. In 1902 they received allotments of land and became citizens. (h. e. b. ) Gentlemen Indians.—Bollaertin Jour. Ethnol. Soc. Lond., II, 275, 1850 (sometimes so called). Hone- chas.
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