62 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 63 
On this occasion, Mr. Mooney made headquarters in the largest 
and most conservative settlement, locally known as Raven Town or 
Big Cove, some 12 miles from the agency, over a very rough moun- 
tain road impassable for vehicles during a part of the year. Here, 
shut in by the highest peaks east of the Mississippi, some 500 Indians 
dwell in fairly comfortable two-room log cabins perched high up on 
Fic. 60-—Cherokee potter; Katalsta, daughter of 
Yanagtski, ‘““ Drowning Bear,’ Head chief of the East 
Cherokee about 1838. Photograph by Mooney. 
the slopes of the mountains, always near a convenient spring. 
They till their fields of corn and beans, which extend sometimes even 
up to the crest of the ridge. Some have oxen, and a few have horses, 
but the great majority cultivate their fields by hand, and travel always 
on foot. 
While many are nominally Christians, and most of the younger 
people can speak English, they still. as a community, adhere to their 
