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10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [litLi.. 44
Tarahumare origin. Moreover, the pueblo was evidently in Taraliumare
territory, though there is no map at hand on which the
name appears in this form.
Returning now to the Chinipa, the following facts should be noted
The name has evidently been used in different senses. Ribas (95-96)
mentions them, but chiefly with reference to the distinction between
them and the Sinaloa (Yaqui group), in the expression ^'uno de los
pueblos de Chinipa, " which indicates that he understood the name as
including more than a single pueblo. At another place (255), speak-
ing of "other nations which people the interior of the same sierra,"
he says: "They call these nations Chinipas, Guizipares, Temoris,
Ihios, and Varohios.
Zapata (386-387) says that the Partido de Santa Ines de Chinipa
lay 25 leagues east of San Andres de Conicari, on the headwaters of the
Rio del Fuerte. Alluding to the valley in which Chinipa was situated,
he adds: "Que se compone de este de Chinipa y otro que se le junta y
viene de los tubures gentiles. " The language is not mentioned in this
paragraph, but in the next, where Guadalupe of the Boragios (Varohios)
is alluded to, it is stated that the language of this pueblo and
of Santa Ines (Chinipa) is Varohio, and is recognized as the same as
"Taura" (Tarahumare), varying somewhat "en la gramatica."
The pueblo of Chinipa is located on Orozco y Berra's map in the
Varohio territory, and in his classification (1:58, 326) he includes
the people under Varohio as speaking that language. Alegre (ii, 121)
locates the Chinipa pueblos on the headwaters of the Rio del Fuerte, as
does the preceding authority, but says they were joined for mission
purposes with the Huites (which see, below). Again (174) he mentions
them in the same relation as Ribas— "entre Chinipas, Guaza-
paris, Temoris y algunas otras naciones."
Villa-Senor y Sanchez (ii, 399) speaks of Chinipa as a pueblo, the
location being the same as that of Santa Ines Chinipa, above mentioned;
and in another place (402) refers to the "Sierra de Chinipas."
One fact worthy of notice in this connection is that Padre Miguel
Tellechea, author of Compendio Gramatical del Idioma Tarahumar
(1826), was "ministro del Pueblo de Chinipas" and resided there a
part, if not most, of the time his work was in course of preparation.
Is this grammar based on the Varohio dialect or on the parent Tarahumare
language ? Had the distinctions and differences disappeared
at the time he wrote? Chinipa is omitted from the map as not dis-
tinct from Varohio.
Seri
The territory of the Seri as laid domi by Orozco y Berra extended
along the coast of the Gulf of California from Guaymas, or rather the
Rio San Jose, northward a little above 30° N., including the island of
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