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 254 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [N. s., 22, 1920

I give below certain mentions of the Padouca by early writers:

Penicaut, 16981722, B. F. in French, Annals of Louisiana, New Series, 1869, p. 152, notes disappearance of Padouca who claimed a wide country according to the Delisle map 1712 but are supposed to have broken up into Wetepahatoes, Kiawas, and Kattekas. Lewis and Clark obviously took this from Penicaut.

P. 155, mentions Heitans.

Mallet Brothers 1739-40, Margry, vol. vi, p. 455. They seem to speak of letan and Padouca as distinct. Of the letans Laitanes it is said that they wander in the country north of Taos, and are not Christians. A camp met by the Mallet brothers had a Ricara captive. After the Mallets had started east, they met a camp of Laitanes on the head of a branch of the Arkansas, possibly the Canadian. Further east in the plains, they met two men and three women of the Padouca, who became frightened and ran away.

Du Lac 1802, Paris and Lyon, 1805; pp. 225-26; a nation dwelling on the Missouri; Peducas, 300; furnish about fifty skins to the upper Louisiana traders. This list includes tribes near, as well as those on, the Missouri river and this band of Padouca or Cataka may be the one spoken of by Lewis and Clark as sometimes visiting Rees and Mandans.

P. 261 : "The great nation of the Padaws who range along the Platte river is only about ten days' ride from the Ricaras," then estimated to number 25,000. This is the same French nickname given for the Padoucas by Lewis and Clark. The description would seem to place their villages about on the heads of the Loup river. Immediately afterward he mentions the wandering Baldheads or Halisanes, and tells where they roam on the Arkansas and west to the mountains of New Mexico.

P. 309 : Tells how the Otoes on their summer hunt were attacked by a war party of Halitanes.

These references suggest that du Lac considers Halitanes, Halisanes, Baldheads, and Tetes Pelees as different from the Padaw. The first named are the Comanche. Like this, the information given Lewis and Clark and du Lac, seems to show that the Padaw

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