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Of the 137 formulas, Mooiiey edited 14 in SFC7 Four only of 

 these 14 formulas he intended to incorporate in the final edition of the 

 Ay. book,^ viz, Nos. 1, 3, 29, and 70 of the present collection, which 

 were tentatively edited in SFC, pages 359, 366, 365, and 363, respec- 

 tively. I have respected Mr. Mooney's intention and conserved 

 these four formulas in the present paper. 



Of three more formulas, Nos. 43, 83, and 93 of the present paper, 

 a translation without the Cherokee text was published by Mooney in 

 The Cherokee River Cult; the phonetic texts have now been incor- 

 porated in this paper, as Mooney intended. The manuscript as 

 Mooney planned to hand it to the printer consisted of the texts and 

 translations, together with explanatory notes, of 96 formulas, includ- 

 ing, as just stated, the 4 formulas published with texts, translations, 

 and notes in the SFC, and the 3 formulas of which a translation and 

 the accompanying notes were published in The Cherokee River Cult. 

 The remaining formulas that are left unaccounted for were not included 

 by Mooney in those intended for publication, possibly on account of 

 their being incomplete, or because they were for some reason deemed 

 unfit for publication. The explanation which seems most probable 

 is that Mooney intended to edit in this paper only the formulas that 

 were of a strictly medicinal character, and that he mthheld all other 

 formulas, such as love-attraction formulas, incantations, hunting 

 songs, etc., for publication at some future time. 



Indeed, not one of the many Cherokee manuscripts that I have seen 

 contained sach a homogeneous collection as is here presented, so much 

 so that this homogeneity can only be explained by its being artificial. 

 The true character of a Cherokee book of formulas and prescriptions 

 does not therefore appear from the manuscript now published to the 

 same extent as it will from the other manuscripts, the publication of 

 which is under consideration. 



The 96 formulas here published had furthermore been arranged by 

 Mooney in a systematic sequence, in a logical order, "logical" from the 

 white man's point of view, classifying the various formulas as those 

 "against genito-urinary disorders," "against indigestion," "against 

 bowel troubles," etc. This classification is quite foreign to Cherokee 

 knowledge and use, and I have considered that it diminished the value 

 of the manuscript as an aboriginal document. 



The original of the manuscript not being available for comparison, 

 I went through a tedious process of comparing various notes and cross 

 references found in Mooney's manuscript notes. By so doing I have 

 been able to reconstitute the original sequence of the manuscript as 

 faithfully as this could be done by the means available ®; it is, of 



^ Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, Seventh Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn. 



8 For the abbreviations of the names of medicine men as Ay., W., etc., see p. 9. 



^ The sequence as given by Mooney is shown in the Appendix, p. 167. 



