ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



I take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to those who 

 have in many ways assisted me in completing this task. 



To Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, to whom I am not 

 only indebted for my ethnological training and for many personal 

 favors, but who has been directly responsible for my being intrusted 

 with the editing of the present manuscript. 



To the late and the present chiefs of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes and Mr. M. W. Stirling; to the 

 ethnologists of the bureau, especially to Dr. John R. Swanton; and 

 to the officers of the Smithsonian Institution. 



To the C. R. B. Educational Foundation (Inc.), New York, to whom 

 I owe the great benefit of two years' study and research in the United 

 States. I want to thank especially Dr. P. C. Galpin, secretary, and 

 Mr. Millard K. Shaler, the foundation's representative in Brussels. 



To Mrs. Allan Watson, of the Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, 

 D. C, and to Mr. J. Henderson, superintendent of the Yellowhill 

 Government Boarding School, as well as to the members of his staff, 

 especially to Mr. Jessie Lambert. 



More than to any other of the white residents in the Cherokee 

 country I feel indebted to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Edmunds, jr., teachers 

 of Big Cove Day School, Ravensford, N. C, who by their cordial 

 hospitality of the first two weeks and by their repeated proofs of 

 sympathy during the rest of our stay have greatly facihtated the 

 field work. 



To Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, I am greatly obhged for the identification of the 

 botanical specimens, as well as for valuable hints and instructions. 



Thanks are due also to Mr. F. W. Hodge, of the Museum of the 

 American Indian, Heye Foundation, and to Dr. Frank G. Speck, of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, who both gave me valuable informa- 

 tion and advice before I started on the trip. 



To all of the Cherokee informants with whom I worked I feel a 

 great debt of gratitude. I especially want to remember W., Del., and 

 Og., since deceased. 



To Margriet Olbrechts, my wife, who cheerfully shared all the joys 

 and troubles of the trip with me, much credit is due for invaluable 

 assistance in practical as well as in ethnological matters. 



F. M. O. 



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