SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8o 



Temple of the Savages, constructed of posts in the ground, covered with mats 

 of cane, and roofed with same, ending in three [stakes] of Wood, 33 feet long, 

 18 inches [wide] and 4 inches thick, crudely colored and [sculptured]. The 3 

 pyramids [are of] reedwork trimmed with pointed canes [to] prevent one 

 climbing to the 3 figures, the body and tail of which represent turkeys and the 

 head that of the eagle, which seemed to us the most like it. 



Cabin of the Chief, of posts in the ground plastered with clay or earth mortar, 

 also covered with mats, 

 n" The temple is 22 feet long and 14 feet wide; it serves as the sepulcher for the 

 chiefs of the nation. 



All the Cabins of the savages are of similar construction, all being round, this 

 one is 18 feet in diameter. 



Surveyed and sketched at the Village of the Acolapissa the fifteenth of 

 April of the present year. Redrawn at New Orleans the twenty-second of June 

 1732. DeBatz. 



