264 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY | bull. 7^ 
Yet in an earlier list of towns, dated 1796, Hawkins does not men- 
tion this town, but only its branches, Wiogufki and Tukpafka, of 
which Wakokai is always said to be the "mother." The traders are 
given as John Clark, a Scotchman, and George Smith, an English- 
man, respectively. 1 There is evidently some confusion, however, 
since a year later Hawkins gives James Clark as trader at Wakokai 
and George Smith trader at Wiogufki; the name of James Simmons 
is added as that of a trader at Wakokai. 2 Wiogufki and Tukpafka 
appear again in the census rolls of 1832, 3 from which the older name is 
wanting for the first time. A very good Hilibi informant told me that 
the Wiogufki, "muddy stream," people separated from the Wakokai 
first and received their name from a creek on which they had established 
themselves. A log lay across this, which was used by the people as a 
footlog, and after a time another town grew up on the side of the 
creek reached by it. In time this log decayed and fell away until 
it was nothing but punk, but the people of the new village said that, 
although it had fallen into punk, yet they had crossed upon it, 
so they took to themselves the name of Tukpafka. Regarding 
the main fact of relationship between the three, there can be no 
doubt, however the separation may have taken place. The Tuk- 
pafka mentioned here are not to be confounded with those Okfuskee 
Indians afterwards called Nuyaka. 4 
Some of my very best informants among the modern Creek In- 
dians, including Jackson Lewis, now dead but in his lifetime one 
of the most intelligent among the older men, have told me that 
Sakapadai was a branch of Eufaula, although later associated with 
Wiogufki and Tukpafka. One even maintained that Wiogufki itself 
was a branch of Eufaula. Others, however, assured me with equal 
emphasis that it had separated from the Wakokai towns, and prob- 
ability is in their favor, since Benjamin Hawkins, writing in 1797, 
says that Sakapadai and Wiogufki were "one fire with Woccocoie." 5 
It is, of course, possible that a more remote relationship existed, as 
suggested above, between the Wakokai towns and Eufaula, and 
perhaps Hilibi, but the information so far available rather points to 
relationship having been assumed on the ground of an intimate 
association in later times between the towns concerned. Jackson 
Lewis told the following story regarding the origin of this town: 
Some Eufaula left their town and tried to establish one of their own, but they were 
a shiftless people and failed. Afterwards those who passed the place where they had 
started their village could see old baskets lying about torn to pieces and flattened 
out. From this circumstance the people of the place came to be called Sakapadai 
(from saka, a basket like a hamper, and padai, "flattened out"). On account of the 
i Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls., IX, p. 34. « See p. 248. 
' Ibid., p. 169. 6 Ga. Hist. Soc. Colls.,ix, p. 170. 
» Senate Doc. 512, 23d Cong., 1st sess., iv, pp. 286-292. 
