NO. 8 CREEK SQUARE GROUNDS SWANTON 1 5 



of the medicine was poured on the fire. It is said that one gallon of 

 spring water was brought for all five pots. This must mean a gallon 

 for each. Following are the busk names of the present officers : 



miko Tcuktcat Heniha 



heniha Itchas Hadjo 



hilis tcalaba Konip Yahola 



ta'pala Katca Tastanagi 



" Kona Yahola 



tutka didja .'.... Tastanakutci 



asimbonaia Wotko Fiksiko 



" Kapitca Hadjo 



The Hathagalgi of this town are Wind and Bear ; the Tcilokogalgi 

 are Panther, Raccoon, Deer, Beaver, Alligator, and llird. 



My information regarding this ground was obtained mainly from 

 Jim Star who described the Talladega ground to me in 1912, the 

 plan of which is in the Forty-second Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, page 205. The different aspect of the east 

 cabin is mainly due to the fact that the earlier account gives a more 

 ancient arrangement, when the warriors were graded into tastanagis, 

 and big and little imalas. The position assigned to the hilis haya 

 in the earlier plan is probably erroneous. The other differences are 

 due mainly to the more extensive information obtained on my last 

 trip. My new information disagrees with the older, however, in 

 assigning the Bird, Beaver, and Alligator clans to the Tciloki side 

 as was said to be the case at Abihka-in-the-West instead of to the 

 White side as was given me for Talladega and the old Abihka town 

 near Eufaula. It is probable that the new information is correct 

 since the last mentioned square was given up when the man from 

 whom I obtained data regarding it was a boy. However, it must be 

 remembered that these allocations are not invariable and probably 

 changed at times even within the same town. 



OTCIAPOFA. OR HICKORY GROUND 



Figure 2 shows the square ground of Otciapofa, i)opularly known 

 as Hickory Ground. 



The hilis tcalaba was changed every four years and was not taken 

 invariably from the same clan. 



At the southernmost front post of the east cabin were fastened 

 two poles with black feathers tied to the ends and at every other 

 front post were three similar poles but with white feathers. These 

 were carried by the men in the " feather dance." 



