ILLUSTRATIONS 



Plate I. In tlie Cherokee luoimtaiii;? II 



II. Map: The Cherokee and their neighbors' 14 



III. Map: The old Cherokee country 23 



IV. Sequoya (Sikwiiyl) 108 



V. The Cherokee alphabet 112 



VI. Tahchee (Tutsi) or Dutch 140 



VII. Spring-frog or Tooantuh (Du'stu') 142 



VIII. John Ross (Gu'wisguwl') 1 oO 



IX. ColonelW. H.Thomas (Wil-Usdi') 100 



X. Chief X. J. Smith (Tsalndihl') 17S 



XI. Swimmer (A'yiin'inl) 228 



XII. John Ax ( Itagu'niihl) 2;!8 



XIII. Tagwiidihl' 2.56 



XIV. Ayasta 272 



XV. Sawanu'gl, a Cherokee ball player 284 



XVI. Xlkwilsi' mound at Franklin, North Carolina '^'^7 



XVII. Annie Ax (Sadayl) - 3."38 



XVIII. WalinI', a Cherokee woman 378 



XIX. On Oconaluftee river 405 



XX. Petroglyphs at Track-roc-k gap, Georgia 418 



Figure 1. Feather wand nf Eagle dance 282 



2. Ancient Iroquois wampum belts 354 



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