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ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATES
1. James Mooney xvii
2. Facsimile page of the reconstituted text 2
3. Facsimile page of the a"yo'''t''ni manuscript 2
4. a^'y^"'''!^! ("Swimmer"), the writer of the manuscript 8
5. W., main informant and interj;reter 8
6. a, The root of an inverted raspberry branch, b, Bark from the
sunny side of a tree, c, He then wraps the simples in his white
cloth 54
7. a-h, Surgical instruments, i, The "^'anu'ca" scarification instrument
54
8. a, Ts., the oldest of the medicine men. 5, s«*'ltye"'ni a medicine
woman 84
9. a, Og., two days before he died, b, The corpse is put down on
wooden boards 84
10. a, Jud., the Cherokee Rabelais. 6, The chief of the coffin makers.
c, T., the unofficial chief medicine man 114
11. a, J., One of the lesser stars, b, Del., descendant of an old lineage
of medicine men 114
12. a, Je., a prominent midwife, b, O., Del. 's mother; midwife 116
13. Cherokee dance mask 116
1 Plate 4 is from a photograph taken by James Mooney in 1888. Plates 1, 2, 3, and 7, i, are from the
collections of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The other illustrations are from photographs taken in
the field by the editor (1926-27).
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