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Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
ca. 1878
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 798
Local Note:
Extract from manuscript **They call themselves Nu-mes, Nu-ints, Nu-mas, Numos, Shinimos, Nunas, etc. We will call them Nu-mas. J.W. Powell. (Also known to the whites as Shoshonees, Bannocks, utes, Paiutes, Moquis (Hopi), Chemahuevas, Comanches, et al. Most of these names have been given them by the white men.
Date of "ca. 1878" given by Hewitt.
Citation:
Manuscript 798, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
