MYERI GORDON TOWN SITE 511 
Tue Town SQUARE OF THE CREEK INDIANS 
The town square of some of the Creek towns will likely throw 
some light on the plan and uses of the Gordon town square. Two 
very good accounts of typical Creek town squares are here given. 
Figure 127 is a reproduction of a diagram * representing the town 
square of Kasi’hta, a Creek town “on Deep Fork west and east of 
Okmulgee,” in what is now Oklahoma, as it appeared about 1888. 
It throws an interesting side light on the appearance of the town 
Northern shed. 
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Eastern shed. 
Southern shed. 
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Fic. 127.—Diagram of the Kasi’hta town square 
square and the uses of the building thereon, during the celebration 
of one of the many different great sacred ceremonies of the Creeks. 
Although the diagram appended intends to represent the town-square of 
Kasi’hta town in particular, it may be regarded as an average reproduction of 
all of the town houses, or tchtiko ‘Iéko, as found to exist at the present time in 
the few settlements of the Creek Nation, Indian Territory, which have preserved 
the antique institution of the busk or puskita. 
The four sheds are rather low and of equal size and construction, each facing 
one of the four points of the compass; the roof rests on five supports, and thus 
10 Gatschet’s “Migration Logend of the Creek Indians,” vol. 1, p. 186. 
