Anthrop. Pap. 

 No. 75] 



CHRONICLES OF WOLFTOWN — KILPATRICK 



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Certainly Wolf town did. But it also had a Gadu:g(i),[^^] distinct 

 from but interlocking with the township organization. Whether 

 this document pertains to the town council or the Gadu:g(i) is an 

 open question. It is in the handwriting of Sdhi:u>i who served as 

 Wolftown Clerk for a period within which the date of this document 

 falls, but he may have been clerk of the Gadu:g(i) concurrently. 



Wa:sida^ni, who was still living at the time of James Mooney's 

 first visits to the Cherokees, was the youngest son of Tsa:li (whose 

 name, like that of the treasurer mentioned above, was the Cherokee 

 equivalent of Charley), the Kemoval martyr whose touching story is 

 retold every summer at Cherokee, N.C., in Kermit Hunter's his- 

 torical drama, "Unto These Hills." Being but a child at the time of 

 Tsa:li's surrender, he was not executed with the other members of 

 his family. Although the Whites knew Wa:sida^ni as 'Washington,' 

 his name, as Mooney (1900, p. 546) states, is derived from the term 

 for "... a hollow log (or other cylindrical object) lying on the ground 

 at a distance; the root of the word is asita, log, and the w prefixed 

 makes it at a distance." 



The variant Wa:sida^na written upon the verso is probably merely 

 a filing aid. 



Mooney's caption, "Working Company — Record WW," may be 

 accurate. 



NO. 3.— PROCEDURE FOR BORROWING MONEY (II) 



" Defined by Fogelson and Kutsche (p. 87) as ". . .a group of men who join together to form a company 

 with rules and officers, for continued economic and social reciprocity." 

 " 'Big Charley.' 



'* The unvoiced vowel is a in some forms of the verb, i In others. 

 » The third syllable is erroneously written he. 



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