NO. 8 CREEK SQUARE GROUNDS SWANTON 23 



In this town the Hathagas were the Bird, Alhgator, Beaver, Bear, 

 Tami, and Wind. The Tcilokis were the Deer, Raccoon, Panther, 

 and perhaps Aktayatci. The two moieties were anciently exogamous. 



The particnlar opponents of this town in regular ball games were 

 the people of Atasi but they also played against Eufaula Hopai, 

 Alabama, Hilibi, and Upper Eufaula. The Koasati Indians are said 

 to have divided up in the ball games, some playing on each side. 



The names of the present officers are : 



miko Nokos Miko ("Bear Miko") (Bird) 



asimbonaia Tastanak Imala ( Deer) 



Tastanak Hadjo (Bird) 



hilis haya Katcutci ("LiUle Panther") (Panther) 



hilis tcalaba Nokos Hadjutci (" Little Bear Hadjo ") (Deer) 



oldjawalgi i- Fus Yaholotci ("Little Bird Yahola") (Bird) 



2. Hotalgutci ("Little Wind") (Bear, father Wind) 



3. Halak Hopai ("Potato Hopai") (Panther, father Rac- 



coon, Raccoon and Potato belonging to the same 

 phratry) 



hilis hoboia i. Itco Ilutci ("Little Deer Foot") (Raccoon, father Deer) 



2. Talsi Yahola (Bird) 

 ta'pala i. Haliik Yahola ("Potato Yahola") (Bird, father Rac- 

 coon) 



2. Hotalgi Hadjutci ("Little Wind Hadjo") (Bear, father 



Wind) 

 tutka oktidldja . . . Itco-ili Imala ("Deer Foot Imala") (Raccoon, father 

 Deer) 



yahaikas i. Pahos Fiksiko (Raccoon, father Deer with which the 



Pahosa is affiliated) 

 " 2. Aliko Yahola (Bear) 



If one town wished to play a match game with another, said my 

 Pakan Tallahassee informant, they sent a man to that town with a 

 ball stick, and when the people of town number two had reached an 

 agreement they sent the ball stick back. My informant said that he 

 then had a ball stick hanging up in his house which had been sent 

 by the Alabama. 



In the women's dance, the atasa held by the leading woman is 

 red and has an eagle feather attached to it ; that of the second is 

 white and has a feather of the fus liatki ("white bird"), a liird 

 found down by the creeks, attached to it. They used from 12 to 

 14 terrapin rattles. During the women's dance the two ta'palas stand 

 about where the two pots nearest the west bed are in the plan. Each 

 carries a wand called si'dik-kika having a white feather fastened 

 to the end. 



The dog whippers used in this dance are taken from any clan. 



