512 MYTHS OF THK CHEROKEE [eth. Axx.la 



a'wi'-e'gwil (abbreviated aw-e'gwCi) — tlie elk, literally "great deer." 



a'wi'-unade'na — sheep; literally "woolly deer." 



A'wl' Usdi' — "Little Deer" ; the mythic chief of the Deer tribe. See number 15. 



Ax, Annie — see SadayV. 



Ax, John — see HCkju'iMiI. 



Aya'.sta — "The Spoiler," ham laiifd'sfiliCi, "I spoil it"; cf. I'l/rf't, bad. A prominent 

 woman and informant on the East Cherokee reservation. 



aye'll — half, middle, in the middle. 



AvRATE — see e'lAdi'. 



Ayuhwa'sT — the proper form of the name commonly written Hiwassee. It signifies 

 a savanna or meadow and was applied to two (or more) former Cherokee settle- 

 ments. The more important, commonly distinguished as Ayuhwa'si Egvd'hi or 

 Great Hiwassee, was on the noi'th bank of Hiwassee river at the present Savan- 

 nah ford above Columbus, in Polk county, Tennessee. The other was farther 

 up the same river, at the junction of Peachtree creek, above Murphy, in Chero- 

 kee county. North Carolina. Lanman writes it Owassa. 



A'yuil'ini — "Swimmer"; literally, "he is swinnning," from gayAninV, "I am swim- 

 ming." A principal priest and informant of the East Cherokee, died in 1899. 



Ayftlsu' — see DayAhUn'yl. 



Beaverda.m — see Uy'gild'gi. 



Big-island — see Amayel-e'gwa. 



Big-cove — see Ku'lnnun'yl. 



BiG-Musn — see Gatun'irn'U. 



Big-witch — see Takil-e'gwa. 



Bird-town — see Tsihhrd'M. 



Bloody-fellow — see Iskagua. 



Blythe — see D'lskivdnT,. 



Black-fox — see Ind'll. 



Boudinot, Elias — see Odl&gi'na. 



Bowl, The; Bowles, Colonel — see Diwa'lt. 



Brass — see Unlsau/l'. 



Brasstown — see llse'yi. 



Breath, The — see Uhli'ln. 



Briertown — see K&nii'g&'ld'yi. 



Buffalo (creek) — see Vi'insd't. 



Bull-head — see Uskwdle'nri. 



Butler, ,Tohn — see Tsan'-uga/sltd. 



Cade's Cove — see Tsiyd'hl. 



Canacaught — "Canacaught, the great Conjurer," mentioned as a Lower Cherokee 



chief in 1684; possibly kanegivd'ff, the water-moccasin snake. See page 31. 

 Canaly — see hi'glna'lil. 

 Canasagua — see Gdn»d'gl. 

 Cannastion, Cannostee — see Kdna'sla. 

 Canug.\ — see Kdnu'ga. 

 Cartooga.i.\ — see Galu'gitse'yl. 

 Cataluchee — see Giiduln'iM. 

 Cauchi — a place, apparently in the Cherokee country, visted by Pardo in 1567 (see 



imge29). The name may possibly have some connection with Nacoochee or 



NagutsV, q. v. 

 Caunasaita — given as the name of a Lower Cherokee chief in 1684; possibly for 



Kanumi'la, "dogwood" (Cornns t!orida) . See page 31. 

 Chalaque — see TsU'liigl, under "Tribal Synonymy," page 182. 



