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course, not possible to say which place was taken in this sequence by 

 the formulas which had been discarded by Mooney, 



Another fact to which attention should be called is that this manu- 

 script contains 13 formulas which were obtained by Ay. from another 

 medicine man, i;'tlan9''°D8, who had died when Mooney started 

 working on the manuscript. Ay. himself was unable to give Mr. 

 Mooney much information on these formulas and the data we have 

 on them have mainly to be gathered by analogy with what we loiow 

 of the other formulas. This i;'tlan9*''^D8 must have been rather 

 generous with his knowledge, as this collection of formulas is also 

 found in the compilation of wJno'ti' (Ms. II), ^° another of the reputed 

 medicine men of Ay.'s time. 



So as to be able to complete the work on the manuscript with the 

 best results possible the following method was adopted: 



The original manuscript having been lost, Mooney's transliteration 

 was taken along when I went on the Cherokee field trip. After con- 

 tacts were made with the people, and especially with some of the 

 more prominent medicine men, efforts were made to acquire a sound 

 knowledge of Cherokee phonetics, as well as pronunciative facilities. 

 The transliteration of Mooney was then read aloud to a medicine 

 man, who wrote the text in the Sequoya syllabary. This text was 

 then read aloud by the medicine man and was taken down phoneti- 

 cally by me. On this latter text the work was done. 



This may seem to be a very artificial way of reconstituting the 

 text but I can vouch for its accuracy. Until the original manuscript 

 comes to light again — which I sincerely hope it will — there is only 

 one proof to test the accuracy of the texts acquired in this way: 

 Mooney, in his SFC, gives an illustration (PL xxvi) of a page of the 

 Ay. manuscript (Formula 29) ; with this illustration the text obtained 

 by me was compared after I came back to Washington and it was 

 found that there were no real discrepancies. The two texts are given 

 on opposite pages. (Pis. 2 and 3.) 



From a careful investigation of them, and after due allowance is 

 made for the variants resulting from the difference between the 

 magistral, calligraphic writing of Ay. in the one, and the current, 

 ahnost stenograpliic scribble of my informant (W.) in the other, it 

 appears that there is really no discrepancy that could in any way 

 interfere with the meaning. Such differences as there seemingly 

 are, are merely matters of orthography, or show that one individual 

 is more slave to "sandhi" laws than the other. The words that 



1° In the course of this paper the manuscript here edited will usually be referred 

 to by an abbreviation: the Ay. Ms. By Ms. II, I refer to Wtlno'ti's manuscript, 

 which will soon be ready for publication; and by Ms. Ill to a manuscript by the 

 latter's father, Ga'DtGwana*'sti. 



