ANTHROP. PAP. 

 NO. 75] 



CHRONICLES OF WOLFTOWN — KILPATRICK 

 (on left-hand bottom corner of page) 



17 



Take it. [?] 



COMMENTARY 



One side of this document bears the formal request of Ga:l(u)sadi:hi 

 for a loan from the Wolftown Council ynih the proposal to pay half 

 of the interest in advance. (We learn elsewhere that it was the prac- 

 tice of the council to demand all of the interest in advance.) The 

 message on the recto is possibly a personal note to someone, perhaps 

 Sdhi.'wi or Ino:li (who very likely was a councilman at this period). 



The name of the importuner presents a fascinating etymological 

 puzzle. Tribal designations (Chickasaw, Tasgigi, Catawba, etc.) 

 plus -di:hi ('killer') constitute fairly common Cherokee personal 

 names; but the only tribal appellative that in sound resembles 

 Ga:l(u)sa is 'Calusa.' The distance from the Cherokee country to 

 the historic seat of the Calusa in the vicinity of Tampa Bay adds a 

 compUcating factor to the analysis of this name — one that at one 

 time might have been a familial tradition. 



The condition of the manuscript is such that one cannot be certain 

 of the endorsement 'Take it.' If such be the correct reading, however, 

 it is probably by the treasurer. 



Mooney's caption reads: "Gtiltisutihi wants borrow 5^ from 

 CouncH— WW." 



NO. 5.— WILLINGNESS OF THE TREASURER TO RESTORE MONEY 



LOST 



gha? 



now 



tshune : la 



eight 



irgd.-^po] 



InaU 



aye : hli 



central 



28 



28 



go:w6:lv:gd[32] 

 I just wrote it 



hi'a'i'sgini 



this, in particular 



aderlv 



money 



gho:hi?sgini 

 now, ia particular 



tsa:li 



Tsa:li 

 a?nu:yi 1853 



March 1953 



ade:lv 



money 



tso'i'asgo : 



thirty 



udvnv : isdigw6 

 ready, he 



ayv 



gv : wani : [yo]hu : s6 : Iv 

 been lost by them, they 



iyad^:n(v)dhe?dhi[2»] 

 cents (successive) 



tsuMi:yi 



to put them down (hard), he 



tsuwerdha'i'mp'] 



Tsuwe : dha'ni 



ghanohiryadv 

 Qhanohi : yadv 



FREE TRANSLATION 



Now! This money that they lost, $8.30 in all, Tsa:li Tsmve. 

 dha^ni is now ready to repay to the council. 



2»' Thoughts,' dominant in Oklahoma. 



5" Alternate with i : gd : i. 



31 ' He-Has-Poles-Sticking-in-the-Ground.' 



w Rather generally alternate with go: we: la. -gd. 



