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38 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 44
teristics. This distinction was at most probably nothing more than
dialectic, and possibly only in name. It is justifiable, therefore, con-
sidering the data, to accept Orozco y Berra's conclusion.
Bancroft (i, 610) says, "The Tohosos are north of the Tarahumares
and in the Mission of San Francisco de Coahuila, in the State of
Coahuila," but this is evidently erroneous unless the reference is to
scattered divisions. The location given on his map corresponds with
this statement, the Tarahumare being placed along the extreme
southern border of the state of Chihuahua. In the same volume
(572) he says, ''East of the Tarahumares, in the northern part of
the first-named state [Chihuahua], dwell the Conchos;" and the
latter are placed on his map in the northern part of Chihuahua.
Pakawan
Coahuilteco was adopted by Maj. J. W. Powell as the basis of a
family name, Coahuiltecan, wliich appears to have included numer-
ous small tribes in southern Texas and the adjoining portions of
Mexico along the lower part of the Kio Grande del Norte, but it has
been thought by the present writer that the native name, Pakawan,
used by Gatschet, is more appropriate. Major Powell remarks as fol-
lows (68):
On page 63 of his Geografia de las Lenguas de Mexico, 1864, Orczco y Berra gives a
list of the languages of Mexico and includes Coahuilteco, indicating it as the lan-
guage of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. He does not, however, indicate
its extension into Texas. It would thus seem that he intended the name as a gen-
eral designation for the language of all the cognate tribes ... In his statement that
the language and tribes are extinct this author was mistaken, as a few Indians still
(1886) survive, who speak one of the dialects of this family, and in 1886 Mr. Gatschet
collected vocabularies of two tribes, the Comecrudo and Cotoname, who live on the
Rio Grande, at Las Prietas, State of Tamaulipas.
Bartolome Garcia in his " Manual para administrar los Santos
Sacramentos" (title-page) names 17 tribes speaking dialects of this
language. Adolph Uhde (120 et seq.) gives the names and locations
of 74, based on previous works and his j)ersonal observations. It is
scarcely possible, however, that these should be understood as tribes.
As the data are not sufficient to justify any attempt to locate the
tribes or subtribes wliich dwelt south of the Rio Grande, except
those identified by Doctor Gatschet, the writer has followed Orozco
y Berra substantially in the area assigned to this family. Beyond
this, with the exceptions mentioned, aU is uncertainty and any
conclusion mere guesswork,
Laguneros
The people included by Orozco y Berra under the name "Irritilas"
are those to whom the missionaries and earlier authorities applied
the term "Laguneros" adopted in the present work, the name