Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission Anthropological Study No. 2 THE CADDO INDIANS OF LOUISIANA [Illustration: Green Corn Ceremony of prehistoric Caddo Indians. Presumed village, dress, and utensils about A.D. 1000 as reconstructed from archaeological findings. Mural in Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, Shreveport.] _Clarence H. Webb_ _Hiram F. Gregory_ August 1978 Baton Rouge, Louisiana * * * * * STATE OF LOUISIANA Edwin Edwards _Governor_ DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, RECREATION AND TOURISM Dr. J. Larry Crain _Secretary_ ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND ANTIQUITIES COMMISSION _Ex-Officio Members_ Dr. Alan Toth _State Archaeologist_ Dr. E. Bernard Carrier _Assistant Secretary_, Office of Program Development Mr. William C. Huls _Secretary_, Department of Natural Resources Mr. Leon Tarver _Secretary_, Department of Urban and Community Affairs _Appointed Members_ Mrs. Lanier Simmons Mrs. Dale Campbell Brown Mr. Thomas M. Ryan Mr. Fred Benton, Jr. Dr. Clarence H. Webb Dr. Jon L. Gibson Mr. Robert S. Neitzel * * * * * Editor’s Note More than 10,000 years of human settlement in Louisiana have left a cultural heritage that is both rich and informative. With the publication of “The Caddo Indians of Louisiana,” the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism is pleased to continue the series of _Anthropological Studies_ that will illuminate some of the major episodes in Louisiana’s past. The two authors of the present study are eminently qualified authorities on the Caddo Indians. Dr. Clarence H. Webb, a well-known Shreveport physician, is equally distinguished by his pioneer archaeological efforts in the Caddoan area. For more than four decades, he has led the professional community in the illumination of Caddoan prehistory. Dr. Hiram F. Gregory is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern State University and also a veteran of many years of Caddoan archaeology. His professional career, which began with an exhaustive study of the Spanish _presidio_ of Los Adaes, has acquired a pronounced ethnohistoric orientation in recent years as the result of his close cooperation with the Caddo and other living Indian groups.