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4. Tobacco, and the skull ho had, 7 p]). 



5. no-hokls-sky, 3 pp. 



0. A society of wizards destroyed, 5 jip. 



7. A. legend probably of tlie grizzly bt^ar, G pp. 



8. Death, in the form of a man, van<iuishes 

 and kills a stone giant, and then himself gets 

 into trouble, 7 pp. 



9. The great bird and the hunter, the latter 

 being transported to a point far above the 

 cluuds, 10 pp. 



10. A niythologic monster and the hunters, 8 

 pp. 



11. The giant plays foot-ball and bets liis life 

 on th(^ lesult, 4 pp. 



12. Stone giants, 19 pp. 



13. A great serijent, in the form of a woman, 

 espouses a hunter, 12 pp. 



14. A giant who stealthily killed his human 

 allies, 4 pp. 



15. How a stone giant was made, 5 pp. 



16. The enchanted linger, 4 pp. 



17. The mysterious insect, 6 pp. 



18. How to see ghosts, 2 pp. 



19. The seventh son and the vampire ddl, 5 

 pp. 



20. To produce llashes of light as a witch or 

 wizard, 2 pp. 



21. A man eats with the thunders, 4 pp. 



22. The flying heads, 3 pp. 



23. A mythologic bird, 5 i)p. 



24. Live-House and his deeds, 2 pji. 



25. School of witchcraft, to test the enchant- 

 ing power of novices in the art, 4 pp. 



28. Fire: why and how new must bo made, 2 

 pp. 



27. Gats: beliefs about, 2 pp. 



28. Legend of A-tuta'-ho', 7 pp. 



29. A mythologic being (by Miss Lucinda 

 Thompson), 4 pp. 



30. A boy cast away by his uncle an 1 then 

 nursed by a bear (by Miss Thompson), 9 pp. 



31. The great medicine, 3 pp. 



32. The great pain destroyer and relief for 

 consumption, 3 pp. 



33. Medicine used in cases of accouchement, 

 Ip. 



34. Tha-r6-hya-wa"ke (by John Gansworth), 

 Gpp. 



35. Dwarf man (by Mr. Gansworth), 3 pp. 



36. The young man and the giant (by Miss 

 Thompson), 9 pp. 



37. Love philter, 3 pp. 



38. The rabbit, and the people who were dis 

 pleased witli their home, 7 pp. 



39. "Williams is visited by a wizard whom he 

 recognizes, 2 pp. 



40. Williams's dog bewitched after saving his 

 master's life, 2 pp. 



41. Williams outcharms a great Tuskarora 

 witch, 3 pp. 



42. A stone giant put to flight by a young 

 warrior, 4 pp. 



43. The owl takes away a man's wife, 13 pp, 



44. A man and his wife entertain a dwarf 

 man, 2 pp. 



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45. The man who always otfered to the ani- 

 mals what he first killed in any of his hunting 

 expeditions, 14 pp. 



46. The "labors" of tlio orphan (by Miss 

 Thompson), 8 pp. 



47. The carnivorous ghost (by Miss Thomp- 

 son), 10 i>p. 



43. Duel between a lame dog and a fox, 6 pp. 



49. How a woman became a great serpent, 4 

 pp. 



50. Beliefs relating to the .age of puberty, 2 

 pp. 



51. The seventh son (2d legend), 32 jip. 



52. A creation myth, 51 pp. 



53. A man, a coon, and the kingdom of rat- 

 tlesnakes, 10 pp. 



54. An oriental tree of language, 3 pp. 



55. A company of wizards exhibit their pow- 

 ers of ench<antment, G pp. 



laali [=Black-fox]. [Cherokee letters, 

 imi.ster- rolls, memoranda, etc.] 



Manuscript, consisting of original letters in 

 the Cherokee alphabet, written by or to In^li 

 (IJlack-fox) during a period of thirty years. 

 They cover a wide range of subjects connected 

 with the daily life and official interests of the 

 Cherokeos. Many of the letters were written 

 to friends at home by Cherokees in the Con- 

 federate service during the late war, and con- 

 tain accounts of operations in east Tennessee. 

 There .are also mtisterrolls of the Cherokee 

 troops, memoranda of issues of clothing, Sun- 

 day-school rolls, etc. 



[Cherokee religions texts.] 



Manuscript, Cherokee characters: a small 

 quarto of 140 pages .about half tilled, consisting 

 of Bible extracts, hymns, etc. 



[Cherokee sacred formulas.] 



Manuscript of about 25 loose foolscap pages, 

 written in Cherokee characters. The formulas 

 relate to medicine, love, hunting, etc. 

 [Conucil records of the Cherokee set- 

 tlement of Paint Town, North Carolina. ] 



Manuscript, Cherokee characters: a blank 

 octavo ledger of 210 pages, only partially filled, 

 and covering a period of about five years from 

 1857 to the beginning of the late war, when the 

 old townhouse was abandoned. They deal 

 with arrangements for dances, regulations of 

 working companies, punishments for minor 

 olTeuses, &c., and were written in the Cherokee 

 characters by Inali, secretary of the council. 

 A few papers of similar character, but more 

 modern date, are added from the same collec- 

 tion. 



These manuscripts, now in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, were obtained by Mr. 

 James Mooney on the East Cherokee reserva- 

 tion in the autumn of 1888. 



Tniili, who died at an advanced age abont 

 1885, was a prominent man among his people 

 and endowed with literary tastes, and during 

 his long life filled the various ollices of keeper 



