Mooney, James
1891 The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee. In Seventh Annual Report of the
Bureau of Ethnology, 1885-1886, to the Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, edited by J. W. Powell, pp. 301-397. U.S. Government Printing
Office, Washington.
ARROWS1
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
pp. 319-320
Meaning.
e.g., Myth: "Origin of Disease"
2)
p. 323
Meaning, Ritual.
e.g., "Theory of Disease"
3)
pp. 334-335
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., bloodletting and scratching
4)
p. 341
Ritual, Use.
e.g., "Flint" being
5)
p. 342
Ritual, Use.
e.g., "Reed" being
6)
p. 354
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category.
e.g., Formula: "When Something is Causing Something to Eat
Them"
7)
pp. 371-372
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "Hunting Birds"
8)
p. 373
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category.
e.g., Formula: "To Shoot the Dwellers in the Wilderness"
9)
p. 384-386
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category.
e.g., Formula: "To Shorten a Night-Goer on this Side"
10)
p. 387
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "I Have Lost Something"
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Synonymy: arrowheads, darts, knives, spears
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BATONS2
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category.
1)
p. 342
Ritual, Social Category.
e.g., "Red War-Club" being
2)
pp. 388-389
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category.
e.g., Formula: "What Those Who Have Gone to War Did to Help
Themselves"
BLOWING/SUCKING TUBES
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
p. 317
Use.
e.g., "Other Manuscripts"
2)
p. 326
Ritual, Use.
e.g., "Selected Use of Plants"
3)
p. 328
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., "Selected Use of Plants"
4)
pp. 334-335
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., "Bleeding, Rubbing, and Bathing"
5)
p. 346
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula 1: "To Treat the Crippler"
6)
pp. 348-349
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula 2: "To Treat the Crippler"
7)
p. 350
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula 3: "To Treat The Crippler"
8)
pp. 351-353
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat Them If They Are Bitten By a Snake"
9)
p. 353
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
2
Synonymy: clubs
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e.g., Formula: "To Treat Them When Something is Causing
Something to Eat Them"
10)
p. 356
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat Gunwanigistuni"
11)
pp. 358-359
Ritual, Use, Social Category.
e.g., Formula: "Moving Pains in the Teeth"
12)
pp. 361-363
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat the Great Chill"
13)
p. 364
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Make Children Jump Down"
14)
p. 366
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat the Black Yellowness"
15)
pp. 368-369
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat for Ordeal Sicknesses"
16)
p. 392
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Destroy Life"
CRYSTALS3
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
pp. 386-387
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "I Have Lost Something"
2)
p. 389
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "What Those Who Have Been to War Did to Help
Themselves"
FANS
Iroquoian
1)
3
Cherokee.
Meaning.
p. 331
Meaning.
e.g., "Medical Practice"
Synonymy: quartz
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FLINT
Iroquoian
1)
Cherokee.
Ritual.
p. 341
Ritual.
e.g., "Flint" being
HEMATITE4
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Use.
1)
p. 379
Meaning, Ritual, Use.
e.g., "Going into the Water"
2)
p. 380
Meaning, Ritual, Use.
e.g., "Song for Painting"
PEBBLES
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
p. 334
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., sucking tubes
2)
p. 341
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., "Stone" being
3)
p. 369
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat Ordeal Sicknesses"
4)
pp. 386-387
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "I Have Lost Something"
5)
p. 392
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category. Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Destroy Life"
4
Synonymy: ocher, "red paint"
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PIPES
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
p. 359
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "Moving Pains in the Teeth"
2)
p. 385
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Kill a Witch"
PLUMMETS/PENDULUMS
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Use.
1)
p. 341
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., finding lost objects
2)
pp. 386-387
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "I Have Lost Something"
RATTLES
Iroquoian
1)
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
p. 366
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat the Black Yellowness"
SCRATCHERS
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
p. 321
Meaning.
e.g., "Origin of Disease and Medicine"
2)
p. 325
Meaning, Ritual, Use.
e.g., "Selected Use of Plants" (Altsasti and Distaiyi)
3)
pp. 334-335
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
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e.g., bloodletting
4)
p. 341
Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., "Flint" being
5)
p. 352
Meaning.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat Them If They Are Bitten By a Snake"
SHELL
Iroquoian
1)
Cherokee.
Meaning, Use.
p. 316
Meaning, Use.
e.g., "Inali's (Black Fox's) Manuscript"
TORTOISE5 SHELL
Iroquoian
Cherokee.
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
1)
p. 346
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula 1: "To Treat the Crippler"
2)
p. 348
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula 2: "To Treat the Crippler"
3)
p. 366
Meaning, Ritual, Social Category, Use.
e.g., Formula: "To Treat the Black Yellowness"
5
Synonymy: terrapin
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