lEOQUOIAN LANGUAGES. 



187 



Mcintosh (Joliu)— Coutiuued. 



Pp. 1-152, 8°. — PartieuIuiLties of tho Indian 

 languages, pp. 43-47. 



Titl.' furnished by Mr. Charles n. Hull from 

 cojiy iu the library of Cornell University. 



Mooney (James). Myths of tbo Cher- 

 okees. 



In Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. 1, 

 pp. 97-108, Boston and New York, 1888, 8'^. 



Cherokee terms, with meanings, p-issiiQ. 



I.ssueJ separately, as follows: 



Mythsof the Cherokees. | By | James 



IMooney. | Reprinted from the Journal 

 of American Folk-Lore, No. 2, July- 

 Sept., 1S88. I 



Cambridge: | Printed at the Eiver- 

 HJde Press. | 1888. 



Title on cover as above, pp. 97-108, 8^. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



[Cberokee personal names.] 



Manuscript, filling pages 94-204 of a qu:irto 

 blank book, iu the library of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology; an alphabetical list of about 400 

 personal names, being all the Cherokee names 

 now in use among the East Cherokees, together 

 with others from old treaties and records. All 

 those names which cau be explained are ana- 

 lyzed, and the first person pi'eseutof the princi- 

 pal verb is given iu each instance. 



Collected on the East Cherokee reservation, 

 North Carolina, during the svimmer of 1888. 



[Cberokee plant names, analyzed and 



scientifically classirted, with uses.] 



Manuscript, filling a quarto blank book of 204 

 pp. ; a list of about 400 .species used by the East 

 Cherokees for medical, food, or other purposes, 

 with their various uses described and the Cher- 

 okee n.ames analyzed. The first person present 

 of the principal verb from which the name is 

 derived is also given iu each case. Obtained 

 on the East Cherokee reservation in North 

 Carolina in 1887-1888, and now in the library of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology. It contains also 

 drawings of 'So medical plants made by an In- 

 dian doctor. 



The plants have been identified aud their 

 scientific names added by Prof. L. F. Ward, of 

 the United States Geological Survey. 



[Cherokee sacred formulas translit- 

 erated.] 



Manuscri])t, |>p. 1-200 of a (juarto blank book, 

 in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology, be- 

 ing transliterations of sacred formulas written 

 in the Cherokee text in the "Kanaheta Am 

 Tsalagi Eti" — the following work: 



■ Transliteration: Hia | Kanaheta Ani 



Tsalagi Eti | tsanehei uninahelfihi | 

 ugn"\va'li | ditaniV'wil, yiVwehi, gana 

 hilil"ta, atsu'tiyi, danawil, anetsa, | 

 didalatli'ti, adadi"ilsfisti nnill.sgi.sti | 

 ftle wuwaktfi"! | NiV'da tsuwatlisaniihi 



Mooney (J.) — Continued. 



ide tsuwasisanuhi | digayaleta nudsil 

 tsuna'wclaniihi | A'yi'P'ini, Tsiskwa, 

 Gatigwauasti, Gahuni, Ahwanita, Ta- 

 kwatihi, Iiiali, Yanilguiegiule wunu"k- 

 tu"i. I Tiskwani tsuueltanuhi: Wili 

 "Westi tsutlilastanuhi. | Elawatihi, Ga- 

 yaleua. | 1888. 



Free translation: A ncient Cherokee formulas 

 handed down from the past, concerning medi- 

 cine, love, hunting, fishing, war, the ball i)lay, 

 life coujuiing, self-protection, dances, etc. Col- 

 lected and edited by Nu"da (James Mooney), 

 from tho original manuscripts of Swinuuer, 

 Bird, Belt, Gahuni, Young Deer, Catawba 

 Killer, Black Fox, Climbing Bear, etc. Janu's 

 Blytho (Tiskwani, Chestnut Bread;, interpre- 

 ter; W. W. Long (Wili Westi), copyist. Yel- 

 low Hill (Cherokee), North Carolina, 1888. 



Manuscript, Cherokee characters (transliter- 

 ation given above) ; a quarto blank book, pp. 

 1-200, containing over 2j0 ])rayers, songs, and 

 other formulas relating to the sul)jc-cts nu^n- 

 tioued. The headings are written in red iiik 

 and the book has a full table of contents and 

 an illuminated title-page. Tlie prescriptions 

 and ceremonies are written out in full, and 

 wei'e prepared under the supervision of Mr. 

 Mooney from dictation or from the original 

 papers of the doctors named in the title. The 

 work possesses a unique interest as an exposi- 

 tion of the Indian mythology and medical prac- 

 tice by full-blood Indians who speak no English. 

 The copyist is a full-blood Cherokee. Mr. 

 Mooney is now engaged in transliterating and 

 translating it into English. 



fVocahulary of tho Lower Cherokee 



dialect, formerly spokeu on the heail- 

 waters of Savannah Eiver, in South 

 Carolina and Georgia.] 



Manuscri])t, pp. 77-228, quarto, in tho library 

 of the Bureau of Ethnology, recorded in a cojiy 

 of Powells Introduction to the Stuiiy of Indian 

 languages, 2d edition, completely tilled. Ob- 

 tained on the East Cherokee reservation in 

 North Carolina in the fall of 1887, aud revised 

 on tlie same reservation in 1888. Tho informant 

 was Chikilili, an old man who is now the only 

 one of the East Cherokees speaking this dia- 

 lect. The appendix contains about a dozen 

 pages of local names. 



This vocabulary of the Lower Cherokee has 

 been comjiiled hy Mr. Mooney since the Writ- 

 ing and i)rintiug of the last paragraph trader 

 his name on p. 124 of t-his bibliography, q. v. 



The parallel vocabulary of tho Middle Cher- 

 okee is now completed also. Tt does not con- 

 stitute an independent manuscript, however, 

 but occupies the "Kemarks" column of the 

 Upper Cherokee hook, red ink being used. 

 The Middle Cherokee dialect w:is formerly 

 sjjoken between the Blue Ridge and Coweo 

 Mountains iu we.'Jtern North Carolina, ami is 

 Still nsed by the majority of tho East Cher- 



