English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: BULL. 30] CATALPA—CATAWBA 213 Cataoulou,—Rafinesque, introd. Marshall, Ky., i, 43, 182-1. Catalpa. Any tree of the genus Catalpa belonging to the family Bignoniacepe. The two species native in the United States are the common catalpa, bean- tree, Indian bean, or candle-tree {Ca- talpa catalpa); and the western catalpa, larger Indian bean, or Shawnee w'ood (C. speciosa). Both species are exten- sively planted as ornamental and shade trees. The second species is also called catawba tree, which name was a])plied earlier to the first. Britton and Brown (Flora of North. U. S., 201,1896) say that catalpa is the American Indian name of the first species. In Chambers' Ency- clopedia (ii, 826, 1888) it is stated that " the genus was named by Catesby, prob- ably from the Catawba r., where he first found them in 1726." It is generally thought to be identical with the tribal and river name Catawba, but W. R. Gerard (Gard. and For., ix, 262, 1896) says that catalpa is derived from kutxihlpa, signi- fying 'winged head,' in reference to its flowers, in the Creek language, (a. f. c.) Catalte. The first province reached by Moscoso after the death of De Soto in 1542. It lay w. of the Mississippi, prob- ably in E. Arkansas, s. of Arkansas r.— Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. Coll. La., II, 193, 1850. Catamaya. A town w. of the Mississippi r., visited by the De Soto expedition in 1542 and mentioned as two days'journey from Anoixi, perhaps ins. w. Arkansas.— Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. Coll. La., II, 182, 1850. Catatoga (corruption of Gatw'gitse^i/t, ' new settlement place'). A former Cher- okee settlement on Cartoogaja cr., to which it gave its name, a tributary of Little Tennessee r., above Franklin, in Macon co., N. C—Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 519,1900. Cartoogaja.—Mooney, ibid. Gatu'gitse'.^Ibid. (abbreviation of Indian term). Cataumut. A village formerly in Fal- mouth township, Barnstable co., Mass., probably near Canaumut neck. In 1674 there were some Praying Indians in it, and there were still a few mixed bloods there in 1792. It was in the territory of the Nauset. (.i. m. ) Cataumut,—Freeman (1792) in Mass. Hist. Soe. Coll., 1st s., I, 230, 1806. Codtanmut,—Bourne (1674), ibid., 197. Catawatabeta. See Broken Tooth. Catawaweshink. A former village, probably of the Delawares, on or near Susquehanna r., near Big Island, Pa.— Post(1758) in Kauffman, West. Pa., app., 96, 1851. Catawba (probably from Choctaw ka- tdpa, 'divided,' 'separated,' 'a divi- sion.'—Gatschet). The most important of the eastern Siouan tribes. It is said that Lynche cr., S. C, e. of the Catawba territory, was anciently known as Kada- pau; and from the fact that Lawson ap- plies this name to a small band met by him s. E. of the main body, which he calls Esaw, it is possible that it was originally given to this people by some tribe living in e. South Carolina, from whom the first colonists obtained it. The Cherokee, having no b in their lan- guage, changed the name to Atakwa, plural Anitakwa. The Shawnee and other tribes of the Ohio valley made the word Cuttawa. From the earliest period the Catawba have also been known as

Text Appearing After Image: D. A. HARRIS, A CATAWBA Esaw, or Issa (Catawba mwV, 'river'), from their residence on the principal stream of the region, Iswa being their only name for the Catawba and Wa- teree rs. They were fre<juently included by the Iroquois under the general term Totiri, or Toderichroone, another form of which is Tutelo, applied to all the south- ern Siouan tribes collectively. They were classed by Gallatin (1836) as a distinct stock, and were so regarded mitil Gat- schet visited them in 1881 and obtained a large vocabulary showing numerous Siouan correspondences. Further inves- tigations by Hale, Gatschet, Mooney, and Dorsey proved that several other tribes of the same region were also of Siouan stock, while the linguistic forms and traditional evidence all jjoint to this E. region as the original home of the Siouan tribes. The alleged tradition which brings the Catawba from the N., as refugees from the French and their

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