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Seri, n. and a.|ˈsɛrɪ, ˈsɛərɪ|
Also 9 Ceris; pl. 9 Ceres, Ceris, Seris, 20 Seri.
[a. Sp., f. Opata (Uto-Aztecan); cf. Papago ṣe:l.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) an American Indian people inhabiting western Sonora state, Mexico, and Tiburón Island in the Gulf of California.
b. The Hokan language of this people.
1829R. W. H. Hardy Trav. Mexico xii. 300 The Céres, like the Malay pirates of India, neither gave nor received quarter. 1854J. R. Bartlett Pers. Narr. Explor. Texas I. xx. 464 He was a full-blooded Ceris, and came originally from the island of Tiburon. 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race i. ii. 110 The Seris or Ceris are described as thieves and vagrants. 189817th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1895–96 i. 259* The warfare of the Seri is largely sortilegic. 1929E. Sapir in Encycl. Brit. V. 140/2 Hokan proper, which includes Seri (coast of Sonora), Yuman (in Lower California) and Tequistlateco or Chontal (coast of Oaxaca). 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) vii. 280 The Seri, so far back as we know them, have also been outrightly parasitic on other groups, so far as they could, by force, cajolery, or suffrance, much like Gypsies. 1965Language XLI. 305 Seri and Tequistlatec, both separate branches of Hokan. 1989Encycl. Brit. X. 650/2 The 300 to 400 surviving Seri in the late 20th century constituted a single community composed of the remnants of several groups.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Seri or their language.
1829R. W. H. Hardy Trav. Mexico xii. 298 It is believed that the Céres Indians have discovered a method of poisoning their arrows. 1854J. R. Bartlett Pers. Narr. Explor. Texas I. xx. 463, I requested..an Indian of the Ceris tribe from whom I could obtain a vocabulary of his language. 189817th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1895–96 i. 169* The Seri face-painting would seem to be essentially zoosematic, or symbolic of zoic tutelaries. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) vii. 279 At the extreme edge of this concept we have peoples like the Seri Indians or the Negritos, whose attitudes are in part like those of Gypsies. 1979Tucson Mag. Apr. 64/1 (Advt.), Seri Indian carvings.
Also ˈSerian n., the language family comprising the Seri language alone.
1915A. L. Kroeber in Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. IX. 279 (title) Serian, Tequistlatecan, and Hokan. |