24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 85 



About 54 men were present at the last preceding busk and 25 

 women and girls participated in the dance. 



At the top of the pokabi in this town was a horse skull. In scoring 

 for this game they draw a line from the ball post to the nearest 

 corner of the south calkin. When the skull is struck, 4 are scored ; 

 when the pole under the skull is struck, it counts 2 on the way out 

 and I on the way back. They may count it as a game, however, by 

 agreement when they reach the corner post. The women's tallies are 

 marked on one side of the line, the men's on the other. 



There is little difference except in detail between the above plan 

 of Pakan Tallahassee and the several I recorded in 1912. 



WIOGUFKI 



The plan of Wiogufki is given in Figure 6 and a view of the ground 

 from the southwest in Plate 3, Figure 2. 



There is a little log house on the grounds in which the pots are 

 stored when not in use to keep them from being broken. There 

 never was a north cabin so far as my informant knew. On the upper 

 end of the ball post is a cow skull. 



The women walk four times around the fire ; then their leaders 

 stop opposite the singers and they begin to dance. 



The hilis tcalaba holds office for four years. In this town the place 

 of the miko's heniha is taken by a tastanagi. Indeed all of the 

 tastanagis are considered the same as the henihas. They are called 

 " the people who are named " and are of the nature of lawmakers 

 and assistants to the miko. The miko's tastanagi is also the same 

 thing as the yatika. There are no istatcagagis (retired leaders who 

 acted as councillors), and no Creek town now has a hoHbonaia. There 

 are five water boys picked at random. At the front posts of each cabin 

 are four poles with feathers tied to the ends for use in the " feather 

 dance." 



The two leading women in the women's dance carry atasa. The 

 principal function of the ta'palas is to call the women up for their 

 dance which they do four times. Each has a wand with a little white 

 feather at the end. Their official positions do not end with the 

 women's dance but continue to the end of the busk. 



No medicine is now put on the firesticks but it was formerly done. 

 The only medicine they use at the busk is the miko hoyanldja, to 

 which nothing is added. 



The Hathagas and Tcilokis were the same as in Hilibi. They 

 were exogamous, and if the exogamic law was violated the ears of 

 the culprits were cut off. 



