ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES 



1. James Mooney xvii 



2. Facsimile page of the reconstituted text 2 



3. Facsimile page of the a"yo'''t''ni manuscript 2 



4. a^'y^"'''!^! ("Swimmer"), the writer of the manuscript 8 



5. W., main informant and interj;reter 8 



6. a, The root of an inverted raspberry branch, b, Bark from the 



sunny side of a tree, c, He then wraps the simples in his white 

 cloth 54 



7. a-h, Surgical instruments, i, The "^'anu'ca" scarification instru- 



ment 54 



8. a, Ts., the oldest of the medicine men. 5, s«*'ltye"'ni a medicine 



woman 84 



9. a, Og., two days before he died, b, The corpse is put down on 



wooden boards 84 



10. a, Jud., the Cherokee Rabelais. 6, The chief of the coffin makers. 



c, T., the unofficial chief medicine man 114 



11. a, J., One of the lesser stars, b, Del., descendant of an old lineage 



of medicine men 114 



12. a, Je., a prominent midwife, b, O., Del. 's mother; midwife 116 



13. Cherokee dance mask 116 



1 Plate 4 is from a photograph taken by James Mooney in 1888. Plates 1, 2, 3, and 7, i, are from the 

 collections of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The other illustrations are from photographs taken in 

 the field by the editor (1926-27). 



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