Quappa

[Alan H. Hartley]

I've been working on the Papers of George Washington and came across in 
a letter of 1777 the phrase "three Tribes low down upon the Missisipi 
viz. the Ukafpaw Tuckepaws and Oyayachtanu's 2000".

Has anyone seen an -f- in Quappa? I wonder if it's a misreading of -h-.

The editor identifies the Tuckepaws as Atakapas, which seems reasonable.

For the Algonquianists: might Oyayachtanu be a slightly garbled variant 
of the full form of Wea?

Thanks,

Alan