BUSHNELL] NATIVE VILLAGES AND VILLAGE SITES TE 
and others of note. The division on the right was occupied by the 
principal counsellors, the ‘‘ Mic- -ug-gee, ” and that on the left by the 
“K-ne-hau Ul gee, ” neople second in command. Facing the south 
was the warrior’s cabin. 
“The head warrior sits at the west end of his cube and in his 
division the great warriors sit beside each other. The next in rank 
sit in the ¢entre division, and the young warriors in the third.”’ 
On the south side of the square, facing north, stood the “cabin 
of the beloved men.”’ These are great men who, by reason of notable 
deeds, have become advisers or counsellors of the chief and sit in the 
south division of his cabin. ‘‘The family of the Mic-co, and great 
men who have thus distinguished themselves, occupy this cabin of 
the beloved men.”’ The fourth building facing the square, that on 
the east, was the ‘‘cabin of the young people and their associates.” 
(Hawkins, B., (1), pp. 68-71.) 
As previously mentioned, Cussetah stood on the left bank of the 
Chattahoochee a short distance below the present city of Columbus, 
Georgia. On the opposite side of the stream, about 3 miles below 
the falls facing Columbus, was the ancient village of Coweta. <A 
fishing station on the left bank of the river at the foot of the falls 
belonged to the people of Coweta, but the lands from there south- 
ward to Cussetah were claimed by the latter. Coweta was visited 
by Governor Oglethorpe in 1740 and a brief account of the town 
was recorded in a journal kept by a member of the expedition, the 
original manuscript being in the British Museum. From it the 
following extracts were made: 
‘‘Their Houses or Hutts are built with Stakes and Plaistered w™ 
clay Mixed with Moss which makes them very warm and Tite. They 
dress their Meat in Large pans made of Earth and not much unlike 
our Beehives in England.” 
The night of the arrival of the English at Coweta they were enter- 
tained by the chief men, by whom they were conducted to ‘‘the 
Square to see the Indians dance. They dance round a large Fire by 
the beating of a small Drum and six men singing, their dress is very 
wild & frightful, their faces painted with several sorts of colours, 
their hair cut short except three locks one of w™ hangs over their 
Forehead like a horses fore top. They paint the short Hair and stick 
it full of Feathers. They have Bells and rattles about their Waist 
and several things in their hands. Their dancing is of divers Ges- 
tures and Turnings of the Bodies in a great many frightful Postures. 
The women are mostly naked to the waist wearing only one short 
Peticoat w% reaches to the Calves of their Legs.’’ (Bushnell, (4), 
p- 573.) 
The towns of the Creek confederacy were either ‘‘war towns”’ or 
‘‘peace towns,’’ and while Coweta belonged to the former class the 
