GUACALI INDIANS. These Indians are known only from a Spanish document of 1693, which lists the Guacali ("fruit hamper") Indians as one of fifty "nations" that lived north of the Rio Grande and "between Texas and New Mexico." This may be interpreted to mean the southern part of western Texas, since the document also mentions that the Apache Indians were at war with the groups named. Nothing further is known about the Guacalis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Charles W. Hackett, ed., Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and Approaches Thereto, to 1773 (3 vols., Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1923–37).
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