The sacred formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Mooney, James, 1861-1921.

Series:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 7th [paper no. 3].

Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; 7th (1885-86) [paper no. 3]

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Medicine.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Religion.

Cherokee language--Texts.

Cherokee language.

Cherokee mythology.

Cherokee Indians--Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (p. 301-397, [4] leaves of plates) : port., facsims.

Place of Publication:

[Washington : G.P.O., 1891]

Contents:

How the formulas were obtained

Character of the formulas, the Cherokee religion

Myth of the origin of disease and medicine

Theory of disease: animals, ghosts, witches

Selected list of plants used

Medical practice: theory of resemblances, fasting, tabu, seclusion, women

The ugistaʹ ʻtĭ or pay of the shaman

Ceremonies for gathering plants and preparing medicine

The Cherokee gods and their abiding places

Color symbolism

Importance attached to names

Language of the formulas

Specimen formulas. Medicine ; Hunting ; Love ; Miscellaneous.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC:

646917531