﻿JULY 
  19, 
  1922 
  bushnell: 
  ethnologic 
  data 
  from 
  Louisiana 
  303 
  

  

  Habitat: 
  Found 
  in 
  sponges, 
  Biscayne 
  Bay, 
  Florida, 
  U. 
  S. 
  A., 
  March, 
  1916. 
  

   Male 
  examined 
  and 
  measured 
  in 
  a 
  living 
  condition; 
  female 
  fixed 
  in 
  Flemming's 
  

   solution 
  and 
  soon 
  after 
  examined 
  and 
  measured 
  in 
  water. 
  The 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  

   pharynx 
  and 
  oesophagus; 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  special 
  tubular 
  setae; 
  the 
  structure 
  

   of 
  the 
  spinneret, 
  and 
  the 
  relatively 
  small 
  number 
  of 
  annules, 
  seem 
  to 
  indicate 
  

   a 
  closer 
  relationship 
  of 
  Greeffiella 
  with 
  Desmoscolex 
  than 
  has 
  been 
  hitherto 
  

   imagined. 
  Perhaps 
  Greeffiella 
  should 
  be 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  family 
  with 
  

   Desmoscolex, 
  Tricoma, 
  etc. 
  

  

  ETHNOLOGY. 
  — 
  Some 
  new 
  ethnologic 
  data 
  from 
  Louisiana.'^ 
  David 
  

   I. 
  BusHNELL, 
  Jr. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  brief 
  notes 
  were 
  secured 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  during 
  January 
  

   and 
  February, 
  1922, 
  from 
  a 
  woman 
  named 
  Rose 
  Demise, 
  who 
  was 
  

   born 
  near 
  New 
  Orleans 
  January 
  6, 
  1834. 
  She 
  claims 
  to 
  be, 
  and 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  is, 
  three-fourths 
  Indian, 
  her 
  mother 
  having 
  been 
  a 
  full 
  blood 
  and 
  

   her 
  father 
  a 
  half 
  blood. 
  The 
  early 
  years 
  of 
  her 
  life 
  were 
  spent 
  at 
  an 
  

   Indian 
  village 
  a 
  few 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  New 
  Orleans, 
  situated 
  between 
  the 
  

   left 
  bank 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  and 
  the 
  south 
  shore 
  of 
  Lake 
  Pontchartrain, 
  

   in 
  the 
  northern 
  part 
  of 
  Jefferson 
  Parish, 
  Louisiana. 
  During 
  the 
  Civil 
  

   War 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  settlement 
  was 
  occupied 
  by 
  a 
  Federal 
  camp, 
  

   known 
  as 
  Parapet 
  camp, 
  and 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  after 
  the 
  war 
  the 
  settle- 
  

   ment 
  no 
  longer 
  existed 
  as 
  it 
  had 
  in 
  earlier 
  years. 
  The 
  following 
  

   notes 
  record 
  the 
  manners 
  and 
  customs 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  village 
  

   during 
  the 
  years 
  preceding 
  the 
  war. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  now 
  difficult 
  to 
  identify 
  the 
  tribe 
  to 
  which 
  my 
  informant 
  be- 
  

   longed. 
  She 
  says 
  that 
  her 
  people 
  often 
  visited 
  the 
  Choctaw 
  who 
  

   then 
  lived 
  across 
  Lake 
  Pontchartrain, 
  and 
  that 
  all 
  spoke 
  the 
  same 
  

   language, 
  although 
  in 
  some 
  instances 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  certain 
  objects 
  

   and 
  of 
  plants 
  and 
  animals 
  differed. 
  This 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  small 
  

   detached 
  settlement 
  of 
  the 
  Choctaw 
  and 
  may 
  have 
  occupied 
  the 
  site 
  

   of 
  a 
  more 
  ancient 
  village 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  Washa 
  tribe 
  after 
  the 
  latter 
  had 
  

   become 
  scattered. 
  According 
  to 
  Bienville 
  the 
  Washa 
  spoke 
  Chiti- 
  

   macha, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  remnants 
  of 
  the 
  tribe 
  later 
  adopted 
  the 
  

   language 
  of 
  the 
  Choctaw. 
  Possibly 
  my 
  informant 
  was 
  descended 
  from 
  

   some 
  of 
  these, 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  peculiar 
  customs 
  and 
  ways 
  of 
  life 
  

   related 
  by 
  her 
  may 
  have 
  been, 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  Washa. 
  

  

  Habitations. 
  — 
  Some 
  structures 
  were 
  circular 
  and 
  others 
  rectangular, 
  

   and 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  these 
  a 
  sloping 
  single 
  roof 
  was 
  supported 
  by 
  posts 
  — 
  

   a 
  lean-to 
  which 
  served 
  as 
  shelter 
  from 
  sun 
  and 
  rain. 
  All 
  were 
  thatched 
  

  

  1 
  Received 
  June 
  6, 
  1922. 
  

  

  