Sacred formulas
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
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content: James Mooney collection
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content: James Mooney collection / Series 1: Cherokee
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1922
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1992-34, Subseries 1.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of material collected and created by Mooney concerning Cherokee sacred formulas.  The material is arranged into three (3) groupings: (1) Sacred formulas in Cherokee syllabary containing original formulas obtained by Mooney directly from his Cherokee informants and copies of formulas created for desposit in the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) archives; (2) Translations, transcriptions, and working files, containing copies of formulas in Latin script and in English; and (3) Lists, glossaries, and related materials, containing supplemental material related to Mooney's study of the formulas.