. Bulletin. Ethnology. 850 METATE RUIN METLAKATLA [b. a. e. discoidal and cylindrical pestle. Many of these hand-stones serve equally well for rubbing, rolling, and pounding. See Afor- tarx, Midlers, Notched plates, Consult Gushing in Millstone, ix, x, 1884-1885; Fewkes (1) in 17th Eep. B. A. E., 1898, (2) 22d Rep. B. A. E., 1903; Mindeleff in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 1891; James Stevenson in 2d Rep. B. A. E., 1883; M. C. Stevenson in 23d Rep. B. A. E., 1904. (w. ) Metate ruin. A prehistoric pueblo ruin in the Petrified Forest, across the wash from the "petrified bridge," nea
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 850 METATE RUIN METLAKATLA [b. a. e. discoidal and cylindrical pestle. Many of these hand-stones serve equally well for rubbing, rolling, and pounding. See Afor- tarx, Midlers, Notched plates, Consult Gushing in Millstone, ix, x, 1884-1885; Fewkes (1) in 17th Eep. B. A. E., 1898, (2) 22d Rep. B. A. E., 1903; Mindeleff in 8th Rep. B. A. E., 1891; James Stevenson in 2d Rep. B. A. E., 1883; M. C. Stevenson in 23d Rep. B. A. E., 1904. (w. ) Metate ruin. A prehistoric pueblo ruin in the Petrified Forest, across the wash from the "petrified bridge," near the Navaho-Apache co. boundary, Arizona; locally so called on account of the numer- ous stone milling troughs, or metates, set on edge in circular or linear form and scattered over the surface. The builders of the pueblo are unknown. The pottery, gray-brown and black in color, is coarse in texture and decorated with rude in- cision and bv indented coiling.—Hough in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1901, 318, 1903. Metates. A former Opata pueblo at the E. base of the Sierra de Teras, about 12 m. w. of Baseraca, e. Sonora, Mexico. Pos- sibly identical with Teras, Guepacomatzi, or Toapara, which pueblos are mentioned in early documents as being in that vi- cinity.—Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, IV, 524etse(i., 1892. Metea (prob. for Metawd, ' he sulks.'— W. J.). A Potawatomi chief, distin- guished in his tribe as a warrior and an orator. When the Potawatomi were sub- sidized by the British at the beginning of the War of 1812 he was one of the leaders of the party that massacred the families of the garrison and citizens of Chicago as they were retreating to Detroit. He led the band that harassed the troops who marched in the fall of 1812 to the relief of Ft Wayne and was shot in the arm by Gen. W. H. Harrison. At a council held atChi- cago in 1821 he impressed the whites by his eloquence and reasoning powers, and also when the treaty of the Wal^ash was concluded in 1826. He advocated the e
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