PREFATORY NOTE 



From December, 1908, until April, 1909, the writer was in lower 

 Louisiana, the greater part of the time being spent in St. Tammany 

 parish, on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain, not far from 

 New Orleans. During this period frequent visits were made to the 

 few Choctaw still living near Bayou Lacomb, in the same parish. 

 The notes obtained as a result of those visits are now presented on 

 the following pages. 



Washington, D. C. 



