1900Myths of the Cherokee. in Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Mooney, James

1900Myths of the Cherokee. In Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1897-1898, to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, edited by J. W. Powell, pp. 3-548. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington.

ARROWS[1]

Algonquian

CheyenneMeaning.

1)p. 503Meaning.

e.g., Seven "Sacred Arrows"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 71Use.

e.g., "Renewal of War 1792"

2)p. 134Use.

e.g., "Reunion of the Nation"

3)p. 188Meaning.

e.g., "Iroquoian Migrations"

4)p. 245Meaning.

e.g., "Kanati and Selu"

5)p. 247Meaning.

e.g., "Kanati and Selu"

6)p. 250Meaning.

e.g., "Origin of Disease"

7)pp. 255-256Meaning.

e.g., "Journey to the Sunrise"

8)pp. 273-274Meaning.

e.g., "Rabbit Dines with Bear"

9)p. 275Meaning.

e.g., "Flint Visits Rabbit"

10)pp. 288-289Meaning.

e.g., "How Kingfisher Got His Bill"

11)p. 300Meaning.

e.g., "The Red Man and the Uktena"

12)pp. 318-319Meaning.

e.g., "Spear Finger"

13)pp. 320-321Meaning.

e.g., "The Hunter in the Dakwa" (Great Fish)

14)p. 324Meaning.

e.g., "The Underground Panthers"

15)p. 325Meaning.

e.g., "The Tsundigewi" (Closed Anuses)

16)pp. 327-329Meaning.

e.g., "The Bear Man"

17)pp. 334-335Meaning.

e.g., "Yunwi Tsunsdi" (Little People)

18)pp. 336-337Meaning.

e.g., "Nunnehi Nikwasi" (Immortals)

19)p. 349Meaning.

e.g., "Water Cannibals"

20)p. 363Use.

e.g., "Hatcinondon's Escape"

21)p. 366Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "Origin of Yontonwisas Dance"

22)pp. 368, 370Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Gana's Adventures"

23)p. 375Use.

e.g., "Last Shawano Invasion"

24)p. 391Meaning.

e.g., "Southern and Western Tribes"

25)p. 401Meaning.

e.g., "Wren and Cricket"

26)p. 432Meaning.

e.g., "Kanati and Selu"

27)p. 434Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "The Gaming Wheel"; "Kanati and Selu"

28)p. 466Meaning.

e.g., "Tlanuwa" (Great Hawks)

29)p. 472Meaning.

e.g., "Tsundigewi (Closed Anuses)

30)p. 492Meaning.

e.g., "Gana's Adventures"

31)p. 494Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Throwing Sumac Darts"

32)p. 503Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Wooden Box"

Iroquois.Meaning.

1)p. 469Meaning.

e.g., "Stone Giants"

Mohawk.Meaning.

1)p. 188Meaning.

e.g., "Iroquoian Migrations"

Seneca.Meaning, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 492Meaning, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Gana's Adventures"

Kiowan

Kiowa.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 501Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "War Medicine"

Muskogean

Creek.Social Category,Use.

1)pp. 90-91Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Battles of Talladega and Hillabee"

AWLS

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning.

1)pp. 288-289Meaning.

e.g., "How Kingfisher Got His Bill"

2)pp. 318-319Meaning.

e.g., "Spear Finger"

3)p. 467Meaning.

e.g., "Spear Finger"

4)p. 544Meaning.

e.g., "Spear Finger"

AXES[2]

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 73Use.

e.g., "Attack on Buchanan's Station 1792"

2)p. 74Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Attack on Buchanan's Station"

3)p. 134Use.

e.g., "Reunion of the Nation"

4)p. 316Meaning.

e.g., "The Hunter and the Tlanuwa" (Great Hawks)

5)p. 337Meaning, Social Category.

e.g., "The Peace Embassy"

6)p. 363Use.

e.g., "Hatcinondon's Escape"

7)p. 368Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Hatcinondon's Escape"

8)p. 374Use.

e.g., "Raid on Tikwalitsi"

9)p. 375Use.

e.g., "Last Shawano Invasion"

10)p. 415Meaning, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Chopped Oak"

11)p. 495Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Wait for Death"

Seneca.Use.

1)p. 365Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Peacemakers"

2)p. 486Meaning, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Peace Embassy"

Muskogean

Creek.Use.

1)p. 23Use.

e.g., "Spanish Exploration"

BATONS[3]

Algonquian

Ojibwa.Meaning.

1)p. 470Meaning.

e.g., Notes and Parallels with "The Hunter in the Dakwa"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Use.

1)pp. 71-72Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Renewal of War 1792"

2)p. 188Meaning.

e.g., "Iroquoian Migrations"

3)pp. 313-314Meaning.

e.g., "The Gambler"

4)p. 325Meaning.

e.g., "Tsundigewi" (Closed Anuses)

5)p. 378Meaning, Use.

e.g., "The Eastern Tribes"

BLOWING/SUCKING TUBES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Use.

1)p. 284Ritual, Use.

e.g., "Bird Tribes"

2)p. 306Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "Small Reptiles"

3)p. 425Ritual, Use.

e.g., "Parsnip"

BREASTPLATES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Use.

1)p. 434Use.

e.g., "The Gaming Wheel"

COPPER

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Use.

1)p. 201Use.

e.g., "Desoto's Route"

Muskogean

Creek.Use.

1)p. 23Use.

e.g., "Spanish Exploration"

2)p. 26Use.

e.g., "Spanish Exploration"

CRYSTALS[4]

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)pp. 297-300Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Uktena and Ulunsuti"

2)pp. 459-461Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Uktena and Ulunsuti"

3)p. 542Meaning.

e.g., "The Uktena and Ulunsuti"

EAR ORNAMENTS[5]

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Ritual,Use.

1)p. 434Ritual, Use.

e.g., "The Gaming Wheel"

FANS

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 493Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Dancers Went Forward"

FLINT

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning.

1)pp. 274-275Meaning.

e.g., "Flint Visits Rabbit"

2)p. 451Meaning.

e.g., "Flint Visits Rabbit"

3)p. 534Meaning

e.g., "Tawiskala"

FLUTES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Use.

1)p. 455Use.

e.g., "How Partridge Got His Whistle"

GOLD

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Use.

1)p. 26Use.

e.g., "Desoto Expedition"

2)p. 29Use.

e.g., "Spanish Mining Operations"

3)p. 116Use.

e.g., "Pressure for Removal"

4)p. 201Use.

e.g., "Desoto's Route"

5)p. 514Meaning.

e.g., Dahlonega (gold)

HEADDRESSES[6]

Algonquian

Ojibwa.Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 446Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Asking Pardon of Animals"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 90Use.

e.g., "Battles of Talladega and Hillabee"

2)p. 236Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Story Tellers"

3)p. 293Meaning.

e.g., "Why Buzzard's Head is Bare"

4)p. 312Meaning.

e.g., "The Gambler"

5)p. 328Meaning.

e.g., "The Bear Man"

6)pp. 399-400Meaning.

e.g., "Star Feathers"

7)p. 474Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Topknots and Split Noses"

8)p. 493Use.

e.g., "Eagle Feathers"

9)p. 539Meaning.

e.g., "Tsuniskwetugi"

10)p. 543Meaning.

e.g., "Uniskwetugi"

11)pl. 6Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Dutch"

12)pl. 7Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Spring Frog"

13)pl. 11Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Swimmer"

14)pl. 15Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Ball Player"

HEMATITE[7]

Algonquian

Delaware.Meaning.

1)p. 190Meaning.

e.g., "Walum Olam" (Red Score)

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 49Social Category.

e.g., "Rutherford and Williamson Expeditions"

2)p. 212Meaning, Social Category.

e.g., "Cherokee Clans"

3)pp. 289-290Meaning.

e.g., "How Redbird Got His Color"

4)p. 320Meaning.

e.g., "The Stone Man"

5)p. 455Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "How Redbird Got His Color"

6)p. 469Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "What They Prayed For"

7)p. 509Meaning.

e.g., "Aniwadi"

8)p. 545Meaning.

e.g., "wadi"

EFFIGIES[8]

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning.

1)p. 389Meaning.

e.g., "The Southern Tribes"

Kiowan

Kiowa.Meaning.

1)p. 503Meaning.

e.g., "Taime Image"

METEORITES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Social Category.

1)p. 442Meaning.

e.g., "What Stars Are Like"

2)p. 504Meaning, Social Category.

e.g., "The Raven Mocker"

MICACEOUS SCHIST

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Use.

1)p. 418Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Track Rock Gap"

PEBBLES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 307Meaning.

e.g., "Lizards and Fishes"

2)p. 460Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Uktena and Ulunsuti"

3)p. 467Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "Spear Finger"

PENDANTS[9]

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 467Meaning.

e.g., "Spear Finger"

2)p. 500Meaning, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Giants from the West"

PIPES

Algonquian

Arapaho.Meaning.

1)p. 503Meaning.

e.g., "Flat Pipe"

Ojibwa.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 446Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Asking Pardon of Animals"

2)pp. 457-458Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Snake Tribe"

Caddoan

Pawnee.Ritual, Use.

1)p. 493Ritual, Use.

e.g., "The Dancers Went Forward"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 73Use.

e.g., "Attack on Buchanan's Station 1792"

2)p. 188Meaning.

e.g., "Iroquoian Migrations"

3)p. 255Meaning.

e.g., "How They Brought Back Tobacco" (2nd Version)

4)p. 314Meaning.

e.g., "The Gambler"

5)p. 356Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Iroquois Wars"

6)p. 375Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Last Shawano Invasion"

7)p. 397Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Old Sacred Things"

8)p. 439Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "How They Brought Back Tobacco"

9)p. 485Meaning, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Peace Embassy"

10)p. 490Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "War Woman"

11)p. 493Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Dancers Go Forward"

12)p. 494Meaning.

e.g., "White Wampum"

13)p. 503Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "White Peace Pipe"

14)p. 524Meaning.

e.g., "Kanunnawu"

15)p. 531Meaning.

e.g., "Sigwetsi"

Kiowan

Kiowa.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 493Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Dancers Went Forward"

Siouan

Sioux.Meaning, Use.

1)p. 485Meaning, Use.

e.g., "The Peace Embassy"

PYRITE

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Use.

1)p. 26Use.

e.g., "Desoto Expedition 1540"

RATTLES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 237Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Story Tellers"

2)pp. 293-294Meaning.

e.g., "Eagle's Revenge"

3)p. 295Meaning.

e.g., "The Snake Tribe"

4)p. 296Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Snake Tribe"

5)p. 366Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Origin of Yontonwisas Dance"

6)p. 385Meaning.

e.g., "The Southern Tribes"

7)p. 493Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Dancers Went Forward"

8)p. 519Meaning.

e.g., "Ganseti"

9)pl. 11Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Swimmer"

SAND

Algonquian

Powhatan.Meaning.

1)p. 184Meaning.

e.g., "The Rickahockan"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning.

1)p. 292Meaning.

e.g., "Owl Gets Married"

2)p. 529Meaning.

e.g., "nayu"

Iroquois.Meaning.

1)p. 469Meaning.

e.g., "Stone Giants"

SCRATCHERS

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 230Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Stories and Story Tellers"

2)p. 295Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Snake Tribe"

3)p. 296Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Snake Tribe"

4)p. 306Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "Small Reptiles"

5)pp. 308, 309Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Lizards, Fishes, and Insects"

6)p. 310Meaning.

e.g., "Why Bullfrog's Head is Striped"

7)pp. 334-335Meaning.

e.g., "Yunwi Tsunsdi" (Little People)

8)p. 453Meaning.

e.g., "The Bird Tribes"

9)p. 476Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Notes and Parallels"

10)p. 524Meaning.

e.g., "kanuga"

11)p. 543Meaning.

e.g., "untlasgastiyi"

Muskogean

Creek.Meaning.

1)p. 436Meaning.

e.g., "Ground Squirrel's Stripes"

Seminole.Meaning, Ritual, Use.

1)p. 457Meaning, Ritual, Use.

e.g., "The Snake Tribe"

SHELL[10]

Algonquian

Ojibwa.Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 446Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Asking Pardon of Animals"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)pp. 320-321Meaning, Use.

e.g., "The Hunter in the Dakwa"

2)pp. 353-356Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Iroquois Wars"

3)p. 368Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Gana's Adventures"

4)pp. 393-394Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "War Medicine"

5)p. 474Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Topknots and Split Noses"

6)p. 488Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Wampum"

7)p. 490Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "War Woman"

8)p. 494Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "White Wampum"

9)p. 514Meaning.

e.g., "daguna" (mussel)

Onondaga.Meaning, Use.

1)p.282, fig. 2Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Wampum Belts"

Seneca.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 368Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Gana's Adventures"

2)p. 486Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Peace Embassy"

Siouan

Omaha.Meaning.

1)p. 503Meaning.

e.g., "Great Shell"

SILVER

Algonquian

Ojibwa.Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 446Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Asking Pardon of Animals"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 109Use.

e.g., Sequoyah

2)pp. 350-351Meaning, Use.

e.g., "First Contact with Whites"

3)p. 434Ritual, Use.

e.g., "The Gambler"

4)p. 466Meaning, Use.

e.g., "Tlanuwa"

STAFFS[11]

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Social Category.

1)p. 253Meaning.

e.g., "Daughter of the Sun"

2)pp. 319-320Meaning.

e.g., "The Stone Man"

3)p. 437Meaning.

e.g., "Daughter of the Sun"

4)p. 469Meaning, Social Category.

e.g., "adalanunsti"

5)p. 507Meaning.

e.g., "adalanunsti"

TERRAPIN/TORTOISE/TURTLE SHELL

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 279Meaning.

e.g., "Terrapin's Escape from the Wolves"

2)p. 286Meaning.

e.g., "Ball Game of the Birds and Animals"

3)p. 394Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "War Medicine"

Muskogean

Creek.Meaning.

1)p. 452Meaning.

e.g., "Terrapin's Escape from the Wolves"

TINKLERS

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Use.

1)p. 483Meaning, Use.

e.g., "The Trader's Pack-Train"

TROPHIES[12]

Caddoan

Pawnee.Meaning,Ritual.

1)p. 463Meaning.

e.g., "Snake Man"

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)pp. 287-288Meaning.

e.g., "How Turkey Got His Beard"

2)p. 289Meaning.

e.g., "How Partridge Got His Whistle"

3)p. 365Social Category, Use.

e.g., "The Seneca Peacemakers"

4)pp. 408-409Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Soco Gap"

5)p. 415Meaning, Social Category.

e.g., "Chopped Oak"

6)p. 453Meaning.

e.g., "The Bird Tribes"

7)p. 496Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Scalp Dance"

OnondagaMeaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 469Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Stone Giants"

Seneca.Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)pp. 356-357Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.

e.g. "Hiadeoni"

2)p. 363Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Hatcinondon's Escape"

Muskogean

Creek.Meaning.

1)p. 455Meaning.

e.g., "How Turkey Got His Beard"

WANDS

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Ritual, Social Category, Use.

1)p. 282, fig. 1Use.

e.g., "Eagle Dance"

2)p. 237Social Category, Use.

e.g., "Story Tellers"

3)p. 493Use.

e.g., eagle feathers

WHISTLES

Iroquoian

Cherokee.Meaning, Use.

1)p. 289Meaning.

e.g., "How Partridge Got His Whistle"

2)p. 455Meaning, Use.

e.g., "How Partridge Got His Whistle"

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[1] Synonymy: darts, knives, spears

[2] Synonymy: hatchets, tomahawks

[3] Synonymy: clubs, maces, scepters

[4] Synonymy: diamond, quartz, "transparent stone"

[5] Synonymy: earrings

[6] Synonymy: bonnets, crests, crowns, hats, headgear, head ornaments, topknot

[7] Synonymy: ferruginous-oxide, iron-oxide, ocher, "red paint,"

[8] Synonymy: figures, images

[9] Synonymy: amulets

[10] Synonymy: mussels, wampum

[11] Synonymy: canes, rods, staves, sticks

[12] Synonymy: ears, scalps