284 BUREAtT OP AMERICAK ETHNOLOGY [bull. 43 



A little farthci- up the river he notes that there had formerly been 

 a small village of Acolapissa, which did not last long. It Avas where 

 M. le Mar(]uis d'Ancenis, afterward Duke of Bethune, had vainly 

 tried to start a settlement, and lay 6 leagues below the town of the 

 Houma. 



The Acolapissa appear again in the journal translated by Claiborne 

 and have been referred to in treating of the Bayogoula." From what 

 is said there and their subsequent disappearance, it is evident that 

 they united with the Houma. In 1758 De Kerlerec refers to them as 

 one of the tribes destroyed by the neighborhood of the French and 

 trade in liquor.'' In 1907 an old Ilouma woman interviewed by the 

 writer seemed to remember this tribe, but possibly she did not under- 

 stand the question. 



The Tangipahoa 



In 1682, 2 leagues below the Quinipissa town, but on the opposite — 

 i. e., eastern — side of the Mississippi, La Salle passed a town that had 

 been plundered and burned not long before, and contained three 

 cabins full of dead bodies. Some of the relations give the name of 

 this town as Tangibao,'' and some as Maheouala or Mahehoualaima.'^ 

 Perhaps the latter was the name of the town and the former that of 

 the tribe. The perpetrators of this deed appear to have been the 

 Houma, and Iberville was informed that all who had not been killed 

 in the fight had been carried off prisoners by that tribe.<^ At the 

 same time there is uncertainty as to the tribe that he and the Indians 

 were referring to, since he states that they denied the Tangipahoa 

 ever to have had a village on the Mississippi. At any rate, we know 

 that the Tangipahoa river was so called by the neighboring Indians 

 in his time,'' and it appears probable that a part at least of the people 

 dwelling there had moved across to the Mississippi and finally come 

 to this tragic end. Penicaut interpreted the name to mean " white 

 maize," ^ and Allen Wright translated it to Gatschet, " those who 

 gather maize stalks," but Mr. Bushnell w^as told by the Choctaw 

 living in that country that it means "corn cob."^ Gatschet is cer- 

 tainly w^rong, however, in identifying them with the little Taensas 

 referred to by Iberville.'' It is most likely that, as stated by Iber- 

 ville on Indian authority, they had formed a seventh town of the 

 Acolapissa, since they lived in the immediate neighborhood of those 

 people.* 



» See pp. 278-279. 



* Compto Rendu Cong. Intorntit. d(>s Amer., intli soss., i, ITt. 



« Margry, l)(''c<)uvciMes, i, (i04 ; Frcncli, Hist. Coll. La., G3, 184G. 



■J French, Hist. ("oil. La., 48, 1840; Margry, l)<:'coiivertes, u, 190, 198. 



«Margry, IMcouvertes, iv, IGS, 1G9, 1880. 



1 Penicaut in Margry, Decouvertcs, v, 387, 1888. 



« Gatschet, Creek Mlg. Leg., i, 34, 1884. 



* Gatschet's Int. to the Taensa Language, ix, Bibliothtque Liuguistiquo Aniericainc, 



XVIII. 



* Margry, DC'Couvertes, iv, 108, 1880. 



