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CHRONICLES OF WOLFTOWN — KILPATRICK 



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conducted in Oklahoma. Those documents in The Inoli Letters that 

 pertain to such sales are rich in ethnographic minutiae. This one, 

 for example, casts Ught upon the technique employed in spurring 

 lagging payments into the estate. There is some evidence to point 

 toward these sales being of two species: those initiated by families or 

 friends of the deceased, and hence the affairs of private citizens; and 

 those held under the auspices of township authority which presumably 

 retained for the township treasury some fixed portion of the receipts 

 in return for its services in arranging the spJes, financing prospective 

 buyers, and collecting debts to the estates. 



Mooney's caption, "This is an Advertisement of sale of Standing 

 Wolf's property," is slightly misleading; the property was that of 

 the deceased Qwi:da, although technically it may have belonged to 

 Wahhyagado : ga. The verso of the notice bears a good deal of arith- 

 metical scribbling that may have resulted from the totaling of sales. 



NO. 23.— THE GADU:G(I) WORKS IN INO:Lrs WHEATFIELD 



1859 



1859 



gha?lv 

 month 



dunilv : hw (i) s[da : ]si 

 they just worked 



do:yani:da P] 



Do:yaiiI:da 



hisgirne ['*] 



fifth 



u : tse : li : ga 



his 



hi?a? gho:hi 



this now 



27ne:sine 



27th 



ude : dhiy A? : sadi : sa? 



year 



de[ha]lu:yi 

 June 



i:ga 



day 



utsal^ : sdi 

 wheat 



u:tse:li:ga 



bis 



a?ghanA?:sadhf 

 not quite full 



utsaI6 : sdi so : gwo 



wheat 



gu:dagi:sgi 



Gu:dagi:sgl 



tso?iyd?ghaIi:? 

 three, full 



dino?dv:[i]hi ["] 

 they just bundled them (flex.) 



iyv:wasdf:hagw6 ps] 

 wages per man 



a?ghali:? 



fuU 



one 



u:tse:l£:ga 

 his 



nvghi : ne 



fourth 



na:m:hv 



In number 

 50 



$0.50 



a:tsil6:sdl 

 basbel-bucket 



go : w6 : la : g^ hi?a? 



I just wrote it this 



ani : tsaga 

 they just cut 



tso?iyd?ghalf:? 

 three, full 



gawo : hilo : sgf p] 



Gawo:hilo:sgl 



wu:sili [78] 1 



bushel 1 



utsale : sdi 

 wheat 



a'ghanvrsadhi 

 not quite full 



tsu:gv:wahl(o)di 

 cost 



ts(i)sgili p] u:tse:li:ga 



Ts(i)sglli his 



u:wa'i'nv po] u:tse:li ["] 



U:wai*nv bis 



'8 'Young Beavers.' 



'« Seemhigly an error, 'fourth' being the Intention. 



»» 'One-Wbo-Cllmbs-Over-It.' 



" A loanword not in usage In Oklahoma. 



" This \yord Is obscure; it appears to be obsolete. 



'• This word Is patently from the verb 'to buy,' but the form Is imfamillar and probably obsolete. 



" This is probably the Ta{i)sgilitgwa who was Chief of Wolftoiyn, His working with the Oadu:g(i) 

 would in no way be jarring to Cherokee concepts of authority. 



•« 'Feather.' 



" U:tse:li and u:tae:l{:ga are In many Instances freely interchangeable. However, the ga Is dropped here 

 to avoid the juxtaposition of a and a (-ga aO. 



