274 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 43 



"Houjets" is certainly intended for ^'Avoyels," though it is at 

 the same time an awful example of the extreme to which misprinting 

 can be carried, and cherre is as evidently '' adapted "' from chevrenil. 

 The last narratives would indicate a considerable body of Indians of 

 this tribe still in existence at the end of the eighteenth century, but 

 in 1805 Sibley thus remarks, in concluding his treatment of the 

 Indian tribes of lower Louisiana: 



At Avoyall there did live a considerable tribe of that name: but, as far as I 

 can learn, have been extinct for many years, two or three women excepted, 

 who did lately live nnionti the French inhabitants of Washita.^ 



In 1908 the writer found one Tunica Indian whose grandmother 

 was an Avoyel, called in Tunica Shixkqltini, 'Stone-arrow-point 

 people,' but he knew nothing regarding them. He learned from 

 others, how^ever, that this tribe claimed to have issued out of the 

 earth at a place now occupied by a certain lake. It is possible that 

 the group of mounds just south of Marksville, one of Avhich is shown 

 in plate 12, a, w\as erected l)y them. 



MUSKHOGEAN TRIBES PEOPEE 



The Bayogoula ("Bayou ok Eiveu People") 



Unless the Pischenoa, encountered by Tonti. in 1G8G, 49 leagues 

 above the Quinipissa,'' and Avhich subsequently disappear entirely 

 from history, were the above people, they were not seen by La Salle 

 nor any of his companions, and must have come to the river between 

 1686 and 1699. At the latter date Iberville found them living on the 

 west bank above Bayou la Fourche, at a place which still bears their 

 name. The Mugulasha Avere then living Avith them. In February. 

 1699, shortly after Iberville's arrival in Biloxi bay, a Bayogoula and 

 Mugulasha hunting party discovered his people and came to make an 

 alliance with him.'' The 13th of March, in ascending the Mississippi, 

 he encountered two canoes, one of the Washa and the other of the 

 Bayogoula, of Avhich the latter went ahead to announce his arrival. 

 One league below the landing place some Mugulasha came by canoe 

 to offer him the calumet, and after his arrival both nations gave him 

 food and sang and danced for him. The calumet Avhich he had given 

 them Avhen they came to Biloxi had been planted on a forked stick 

 placed in the middle of the assemblage, and was continually watched 

 by a man appointed for this purpose. Next day, the 15th of March, 

 he went up to the village, Avhich he describes as follows: 



I found this village a quarter of a league from the river, near which there 

 passes a little stream from which they get their drinking water. It was sur- 



"Anii. 0th Coiiir.. L'fl scss., 1087, lSr)2. 



" Marfjry, Decoiivertps, ill, 557, 1878 ; soe also p. .•{7. 



Ibid., IV, 154, 1880. 



