MS 1876 Cherokee Myths
MS 1907 Cherokee Sacred formulae
Also fragments of notes and memoranda regarding formulae and myths.
MS 3710 Fragment of a manuscript about the Cherokee
Holway, Frances Hope Kerr, 1886-
Includes part of creation myth, notes on fire-making, houses, the invention of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoya, and his demonstration of it to Col. Lowrey. n.d. 4 pages Also 1-page letter from Mrs. Hope Holway, Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 30, 1959, suggesting source of this fragment.
MS 4600 Frans M. Olbrechts Papers relating to studies of the Cherokee of North Carolina
Allen, Louis
Holt, R.D.
Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
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Box 1-11, (1) Vocabularies; Box 12, (2) - (15) Vocabularies, Phonology, Morphophonemics, and Syllabary; Box 13 (16) - (32) Grammar; Box 14 (33) - (47) Texts, no translations; Box (15), (48) - (65) Texts with translations; Box 16 (66) - (73), Disease-name papers; Box 17 (74) Disease-name papers; Box 18 (75) - (83) Disease-name papers; Box 19 (84) - (88) Wilnoti formula papers; Box 20 (89) - (93) Wilnoti formula papers; Box 21 (94) Botany; Box 22 (95) - (98) Botany; Box 23 (99) Botany (Plant specimens, oversize carton); Box 24 (100) - (118) Myths, Miscellaneous Ethnographic notes …
MS 4640 Newspaper clippings
Mainly relating to the "Over Hills of Ottalay," and one about Cherokee folklore, sent to Gatschet by McDonald Furman, Privateer, South Carolina.
MS 4130 Birds Names from the Cherokee and the Pioneer White Vocabularies
Manuscript list, from informants on the Cherokee Reservation, Mooney, and others, with 1-page covering letter from author to Dr. Swanton, August 17, 1943. Also reprint of published article: Pickens, A. L. A Comparison of Cherokee and Pioneer Bird-Nomenclature. Southern Folklore Quarterly, Volume VII, No. 4, December, 1943, pages 213-21.
MS 4146 Copies of material regarding American Indians from various publications
Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895
Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872
Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949
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23 Items (slips )
Contents: 1. Myths and customs of the Cherokee, Catawba, and Choctaw, from "Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British Provinces," by Charles Lanman, 2 volumes, Philadelphia, 1856- 60 pages. 2. Legends of Caddo Paintings by J. M. Stanley, from "Portraits of North American Indians, with sketches of scenery, etc., Washington, 1852. 1 page". 3. Corrections …
MS 3464 Extracts from various sources on General Ethnological Beliefs
Not Cherokee. On the following subjects: Moon, Funeral, Gods, Myths, Names, Ghosts and Spirit World, Metamorphoses, Hunting, Dead Names, and Picture, Witchcraft, Games, Journey to Sunrise, Colors, Death, Birds, Baptism, etc. Pleiades, Eclipse, Thunder and lightning, Fire origin, and Meteorology.
MS 1808 English translations of Natchez texts in MS 1807
Sam, Watt, 1876-1944
Jumper, Charlie
Includes typescript document, 2 pages. Stories were numbered in 1970 to correspond with numbers of stories published in Swanton, "Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians," Bureau of American Ethnology-B 88, Washington, D. C., 1915, and are arranged insofar as possible in that order. The following stories are present: 1-5, 7, 9, 11, 13-14, 16-19, 22-29, 30 (last page only), 31-32, 34, 38, 40, 43.
MS 4201 Southeast ethnographic and vocabulary notes
Billy, Baptiste
Billiot, Billy
Verdine, Yeet
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Includes: census of Indian families in several Louisiana towns, pages 2 and 200; Houma vocabulary, pages 3, 198, and 4; Alibamu belt design, page 8; Hitchiti and Creek stories, pages 29-33, 172-169; and diagram of "Stomp ground in Greenleaf Mtns. for Natchez and Cherokee," page 58. Diary of May 2-22 [1907] in Louisiana; then proceeds to Indian Territory. In stenographic notebook …
