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diet for 1 65
food taboos for 293
formulas for 167, 196, 292
remedy for 53-54
treatment for 196
Rhododendron maximum, use
of 203, 204, 220
Rhus copallina, use of 251
Rhus glabra, use of 130, 251
Rhus hirta, use of 251
Rhus (toxicodendron) radi-
CANs, use of 198
Richweed, use of
Rite of purification, observ-
209
ance of
Ritual language—
103-104
sources of 161-162
use of
River—
160-165
beliefs concerning 22-23
disease sent by 23
ritual connected with 85
symbolic conception of 191
Roots—
collected and dried 91
water-growing, medicinal
use of 247
INDEX 317
RuBus nigrobaccus, use of—
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253
RUBUS OCCIDENTALIS, USC of 246
RuBUS STRUGOSUS, USC of 246
Rubus villosus, use of
Sacred numbers—
253
discussed 52
in formula 199
reference to 244
use of, in medicine 54
Saliva, belief concerning 15
Salix alba, use of
Salt—
belief concerning
199
121
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PxTRiPiCATiON RITES, observance
of
103-104, 138, 139
Purple Man, associated with
magic 24
Putty root, use of 128
QuERCUS ALBA, medicinal use of. 244
QUERCUS FALCATA, USe of 199
QuERCUS MIBRICARIA, USe of
QuERCUS RUBRA, medicinal use
199
of 244
QuERCUS STELLATA, USe of 200
Rabbit, taboo concerning
Rainmakers, almost extinct—
Raspberry, medicinal use of—
120
87
246 placed in burials 134
Rattle, restricted vise of 59 tabooed in sickness
64-65
Rattlesnake, teeth
for scarification
of, used
70
Sarracenia purpurea, use of_-
Scarification—
101
Rattlesnake fern, use of-- 176, 177 in treatment of ailments 69
Rattleweed, use of 277 instruments used for 69-71
Red buckeye, medicinal use of _
Red oak, medicinal use of
239
244
of ball players 68-69,70
See also Scratching
Reincarnation of animals 27-28 ceremony.
Restrictions, observance of, to
SciRPUs validus, use of 198
prevent sickness
Rheumatism—
73-74 Scratching
mulas for
ceremony, for-
167,203,207,212
Sequoya syllabary, use of 3-4
Serviceberry, use of 283
Sexual taboos 66
Shadbush, use of 283
Shaler, Millard H., acknowledgment
to XV
Shell, terrapin, use of 59
Sickness—
Cherokee attitude toward- 80-81
seclusion in 83
See also Diseases;
Medicine.
Singing, Cherokee, character-
istics of 155
Skunk, use of, as a prophylactic
76
Slippery elm, medicinal use of 119,
244
Smallpox, preventives used
against 76
Snake bites, formulas for 167,
176, 240
Snake dreams, formulas for 167
Snake tooth, used in scratching
operation 203
Snakeroot, black, use of 277
Snakeroot, Virginia, use of. 177, 286