Facsimile of Swimmer manuscript
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.998 B 6
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content: Negatives of Cherokee manuscripts, one of which was used by Mr Mooney in the Seventh Annual Report - plate 26, opposite page 312.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: Left: Page of the "Swimmer Manuscript": sacred formula 29, "medicine (for) when their breast swells." Written in the Cherokee syllabary by a Cherokee named A'Yunn'ini or "He is a Swimmer." Manuscript collected by James Mooney, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1887-1888. Right: page of phonetic text with interlinear translation from the "Swimmer Manuscript": sacred formula 1, medicine (for) the big chill." Phonetic transcription and translation by Frans M. Olbrechts, 1929.