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thomas] indian" languages of mexico and central america 45
Names of Tribes in Northeastern Mexico not Considered
Separately
This is the proper place to alhide to the names of the supposed
tribes or subtribes of northeastern and eastern Mexico mentioned
by early Spanish authors, but not marked on the accompanying
map. As given in Orozco y Berra's list, these are numerous, but
when examined are found to be limited mostly to the present
states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas, of which, with very few excep-
tions, nothing more can be said than that they are found in lists or
merely mentioned without particulars. The present author's method
is therefore reversed here, and allusion is made to but very few
of these names, of which some particulars are available.
It is quite possible that most of those mentioned as in Coahuila,
chiefly along the Rio Grande, were Apache and Lipan, especially
the former. The names near the Gulf coast, in part at least, may
refer to the remnants of tribes forced tliither by the stronger tribes
of the interior. Orozco y Berra places on his map, on the Rio
Grande near its mouth, the following names
Pintos Comesacapemes Auyapemes
Tanaquiapemes Catanamepaques Uscapemes
Ayapaguemes Saiilapaguemes Gummesacapemes
and in Tamauhpas the following:
Tamaulipecos Caribayes Comecrudos
Canaynes Mariguanes Malinchenos
Borrados Panguayes Ancasiguais
Quinicuanes Anacana Comecamotes
Tedexenos Cadinias Caramariguanes
Pasitas Guixolotes Caramiguais
Tagualilos Pintos? Aretines
All in the latter list are located by Orozco y Berra in his Tamau-
lipeco area, and north of Panuco river, while south of the river are
only the well-known tribes, Huasteca, etc.
Of these names but little can be said, as all, or nearly all, are now
'^ extinct. Doctor Gatschet in
1886 found some twenty-five of the
Comecrudo at Las Prietas, Tamaulipas. The Cotoname were prac-
tically extinct, but one man being discovered. He obtained also
information of the existence at La Volsa of two women of the Pinto,
or Pakawa, tribe who, it was said, could speak their own language.
The Cotoname of Doctor Gatschet probably corresponds with Catanamepaques
of the above list. So far as known, these were the
only tribes not wholly extinct at the time of Doctor Gatschet's visit
(1886).
1 See Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 68.
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