844 BUREATT OF AMEETCAN ETHNOLOOY I boll. 4:5 



f'o'klaugi lia'no liotci'ne (" jiond-lily worship house") on the soiitli shle of 

 i^rnine il Volee inlet, (xrand Lnke 8 4 miles northwest of Charenton in a low, 

 ?swanipy tract of land said to be occupied by the plantation of ^Ir. Rodriguez. 

 There was an Indian cemetery Jiere and (Jatschet states that it was the site of 

 their central house for religious dances, but the writer was informed that each 

 town had a separate dance bouse. 



Ne'lvun tsi'snis ("Itound island"), a town opposite He aux Oiseaux, in the 

 Lac de la Fausse Pointe. 



Hi'pinimtc na'mu ("Prairie-landing village"), on the western part of Grand 

 Tiake, at the Fausse Pointe, near Bayou (iosselin. Another place so named is 

 said to have been on Lac d'Autre Rive, between Charenton and St. Martinsville. 



Na'mu ka'tsi [Gatschet has Na'mu ka'tsup, which is said to be erroneous; 

 ka'tsi signifies bones or, as in tliis case, the " frameworlv " of the houses, the 

 frames having stood after the houses were abandoned]. Bayou Chene village, 

 St. Martin's parish. 



Ku'cux na'mu (cottonwood village), on Lake Mingaluak, near Bayou Ch^nc. 



Ka'me nakc teat na'mu, at Bayou du Plomb. a large Indian town, near Bayou 

 Chene, 18 miles mnUi of Charenton. 



Tsa'xtsincup nu'niu, on Bayou des I'laquemilies, near Gi'and river, 412^3 

 miles north of Charenton, the Plaquemine village. 



Grosse Tete na'mu (Indian name not remembered), 2 miles from the Plaque- 

 mine village. 



Ce'ti na'mu, west of Plaquemine, on Grand river, the name of which was 

 Ce'ti (Gatschet gives Tce'ti). 20 miles east of Charenton. 



Tca'ti Kuti'ngi na'mu, at junction of Bayou Teche with Bayou Atchafalaya. 



The two remaining villages given by Gatschet are located by him 

 on the site of Donaldsonville, at the upper end of Bayou la Fourche, 

 and at the place where this bayou enters the sea. He seems to have 

 assumed the first of these because it is supposed that the missionary 

 St. Cosme was there murdered, but this, as all accounts agree, was 

 done at a distance from the Chitimacha villages, and there is no 

 other evidence for the existence of a Chitimacha village at that 

 point. Nor does Gatschet cite any authority for the existence of the 

 second village, which seems equally unauthenticated in any other 

 qiuirter. On the other hand, the writer was told of several villages 

 not mentioned by Gatschet. These were near Baldwin, at Jeanerette 

 (Catcnic),'» at " Bitlarouges " (?), at the shell bank on the shore of 

 Grand lake close to Charenton, at a place called Oku'nkiskin,^ and 

 at Irish Bend near Franklin (Wai't'inimc).'" The last of these was 

 a very large one. 



The material cidture of this tribe was similar in most respects to 

 that of the Indians along the lower Mississippi. It was distinguished 

 from them principally by the increased importance of food obtained 

 from the waters and the decreased importance of food from land 

 animals. If we may trust early French writers, the Chitimacha 



" Ca'tcnlc means " empty-placo," because the site was not occupied until after the 

 civil war. 



'' OUu'nkiskin=" Deep-shoiildcr," probabl.v because the bayou turns short there like a 

 man's shoulder. 



"• " Waifi-landur-r-placo," seo p. 351. 



