Quapaw designation (fwd)

[Michael Mccafferty]

Thanks, Alan. I'll pass on your commment, too.

Michael



On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Alan Hartley wrote:

> > I do Chickasaw topographical nomenclature, among other things, and while
> > searching for something else I came across the following enigmatic
> > designation for the Quapaw in Margry's Découverts... (1: 616): Savansa.
> > According to the Handbook of NA Indians, this is the sole occurrence of
> > such a name for them. It bears some resemblance to Miami-Illinois terms
> > for the Quapaw tribe. Hodge in the earlier Handbook mentions a Quapaw
> > gens name, Wasa, that could be the last two syllables of Savansa. Do you
> > see anything that might suggest a possible Miami-Illinois source for
> > calling the Quapaw Savansa?
>
> In the Hdbk. of N. Amer. Indians (as distinct from Hodge's Hdbk. of
> Amer. Indians) Doug Parks says (XIII.512) "An anomalous historical form,
> Savansa, was recorded in 1684 as an alternate for Akansa, perhaps a
> transcriptional error (Tonti in Margry 1876-1886, 1:616)." Given the
> vagaries of ethnonym transcription and the lack of other examples, error
> is a good bet.
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> Alan
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