o?BREOTTs] "fHE SWIMMER Manuscript ^ 



On account of the special nature of the work it was not easy to 

 find the right sort of informants. As a whole only medicine men could 

 be used. Some of these, even if they were good practitioners were 

 but poor informants; others as a matter of principle refused for many 

 months to give information. Some of them, however, were ideal 

 collaborators, and for such of them as W., Del., and Og., one is at a 

 loss what to praise most in them — their immense fund of knowledge 

 or the keenness and the interest they manifested in the work. 



The following is a Hst of the informants and medicine men cited in 

 these pages. Those the names of whom are preceded by two asterisks 

 are the medicine men who worked with Mooney and who died be- 

 tween his visits and mine; the names preceded by one asterisk are 

 those of the medicine men I worked with, but who died during or 

 since my stay; the medicine men whose names are not preceded by 

 an asterisk are those I worked with, and who are, so far as I know, 

 still alive at the time of writing. Since some of the latter are depicted 

 in these pages in terms that are not always complimentary, and also 

 because much of their activity as described in this paper might bring 

 upon them the wrath of people who believe it their duty to stamp 

 out all vestiges of aboriginal belief and practice, it is deemed best to 

 cite them by their initials only. I have deposited a detailed list in 

 the archives of the Bureau of American Ethnology by which these 

 individuals can be identified by any ethnologist who may desire to 

 make investigations in that quarter of the world in the future. 



Abbreviation used Refers to — 



**Ay a'yo°"fiii', writer of the manuscript (cf. p. 7). 



**Ayo Ayosta, W.'s motlier (see Mooney Myths, PI. xiv) (cf. 



p. 67). 



Del See this paper, pi. 11, b; cf. also pp. 115-116. 



**Gad GaDtGwana'sti, the writer of manuscript III (cf. SFC, 



312). 



*J Jukias (pi. 11, a), died 1928 (cf. p. 115). 



*Je W.'s half-sister; medicine woman and midwife (see 



pi. 12, o; cf. p. 116). 



Jo Cf. p. 113 et seq. 



Jud See pi. 10, a; cf. p. 114 et seq. 



O Del.'s mother, Climbing Bear's widow, W.'s and Og.'s 



sister-in-law (see pi. 12, b; cf. p. 116). 



*0g Died spring 1927; W.'s half-brother, Del.'s uncle (see 



pi. 9, a; cf. p. 112 et seq.). 



T Del.'s brother-in-law (see pi. 10, c; cf. p. 111). 



*Ts J.'s father (see pi. 8, a; cf. p. 115). 



**Ut Cf. p. 3. 



W My main informant and interpreter (see pi. 5; cf . p. 109 



et seq.). 

 **Wil Thewriterof manuscript II, Gad. 's son (cf. SFC, p. 312). 



