ANTHROP. Pap, 

 No. 75] 



CHRONICLES OF WOLFTOWN — KILPATRICK 



101 



COMMENTARY 



Ino:li's self-conscious statement as to his authority to make loans 

 from the estates of persons deceased suggests that the practice 

 was somewhat uncommon. What he may be trying to say is: "I 

 believe that I have the authority to make a loan such as this every 

 day, if I wished." One can but speculate upon what became of the 

 interest from, a loan of this type. Part of it may have gone to the 

 council for its supervision over the money, and part of it to the 

 estate in return for the use of the money. 



Mooney's caption is difficult to decipher: "Wahuhu loans 2- (?) 

 f- [from] property of deceast [sic], [?] Wolftown Council WW." 



NO. 38.— THE CLERK PAYS THE JUDGE 



FREE TRANSLATION 



I have just made this right: judge Wa:huhu has been paid this 

 amount, $2.00. He owed $0.75 to the estate of the dead person. It 

 became necessary for him to pay the $0.75. I, Ino:li, just said that 

 one is to do right toward Wa:huhu. 



COMMENTARY 



Clerk Ino:li does not specify how long a period of the judge's 

 service this recompense represents. We see that a sum was deducted 

 from the emolument for the purpose of repaying a loan from the 

 estate of a deceased individual, but it is not clear whether the deduc- 

 tion came from the stipend as stated or from a gross pay that included 

 the deduction. Although the document is not dated, we hypothesize 

 that it was written in 1861. 



'Tayt [Payment] to Wdhuhu — WW" is Mooney's comment. 



" In this word and in the same word following, Ino:li spells the penultimate syllable he. In Cherokee 

 manuscripts one rather frequently finds c+vowd spelled v+syllable beginning with h. This appears to be 

 an attempt to represent the strong nasaUzation of the v (see Chafe and Kllpatrick, 1962. pp. 62-63). 



w The third syllable is erroneously written gwv. 



