For well over a hundred years the Oklahoma Cherokees have
been writing down their magic by means of the Sequoyah syllabary
in manuscripts books that may vary in size from *tiny* pocket note-
books to large scraps of paper.

My parents, Jack Frederick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick,
originally collected these manuscripts in the early 1960's while
doing research for the five anthropological books that they would
write: beginning with Friends of Thunder (SMU Press:1964) and end-
ing with Run Toward the Nightland (SMU Press: 1967). Their publishing
career was cut short by my father's premature death in 1967. My mother
died of Cancer in 1977.

The present collection which spans the time period of 1885-
1938 and bears the name of a turn of the century Cherokee Shaman,
Uwedasat', encompasses some forty such manuscripts. The majority are
written in notebooks averaging 5 to 6 inches in height and 2 to 3 inches
in width.

Twenty of the notebooks written between 1885-1905 can be attri-
buted to the hand of Uwedasat. Little is known about him. However, there
is some evidence that his English name was John Campbell (1857-1938) and
that he lived near Barber, Oklahoma. The sheer volume of twenty known
works must mark Uwedasat as a kind of Dr. Samual Johnson of the Cherokees.
Indeed, he is still revered by the old folk of Oklahoma as a "powerful
medicine man."

To my knowledge, these works have never been published. They remain, as first encountered, untranslated. However, it is certain that these formula books contain not only a vast collection of sacred texts and medicinal cures but also an odd assortment of journal entries: scriptural references, book keeping accounts and various stray names. Historically, they should reveal much about the 19th and early 20th Century Cherokee psyche.

## note

My father evolved an intricate system of using Roman numerals to identify each book to its respective type of formula. Unfortunately, the key to his code died with him. I have, thus, retained it strictly for the purpose of identifying each book. This roman numeral system has nothing to do with the chronological order of the books. Hence, Book II may have been written 20 years later than Book V.

UWEDASAT FORMULA BOOKS

✓(1) Book IV (circa 1896) hgth:5 3/4" wdh: 3 1/2"
Notebook: faint cover) 13 pps(written on both sides)
8-10 formulas+ personal bookkeeping (written in pencil)
legibility: fairly clear

✓ 2) BOOK LXIV (1897) Fragment. 2 pps: formula(in ink) +
formula(pencil) partly smeared. Hgth: 5 1/2" wdh: 3 1/4"

✓(3) BOOK II (1885-1886) written in Pierce's Memorandum & Account
book. 24pps. 16 formulas, 5pps- advertisements
Breakdown: Jan.-bookkeeping notes. Feb- formula, March-formula
April- formula, May- formula, June-formula, July- formula
August-formula, (No sept) Oct-formula, Nov.-formula, Dec-formula
Memoranda -65 formulas on 6 pps. Pasted in insert: formula in
ink. Most formulas in pencil. lgth:5 5/8" wdh: 3 3/8"

✓(4) BOOK XIII (Probably 19th Century) Written in Springfield Wagon Notebook: 12 formulas (written on 1-side). 2 5/8" x 5 1/4"
Total: 16 pps:15pps written. Clear. In ink

✓ 5) BOOK LXXXI: (Age Unknown) Fragment of Reddish Brown Notebook
one formula (in pencil) written on back cover. 5 1/2"x 31/4"

✓(6) BOOK XXXV (1900 circa) written in Simmons Liver Regulator
total: 18 pps. 17 formulas (in pencil), clear. 6"x 3 3/8"
My father's Notation on envelope: "with version of RGP frontLET

✓ 7) BOOK XXXIX (circa 1904-1905), written in Pierce's Memorandum & Account Book. Total: 12 pps. 5 formulas clearly written in ink on side
7 blank DP. 5 5/8" x 3 3/8"

✓ 8) BOOK LXIII( circa 1904-1905) Fragment written in Pierce's Memorandum & Accounting Book. Total: 3 pps. p.13 formula in ink
Memorandum -formula in faint pencil, Memorandum, formula in pencil
p,35. 5 5/8"x 3 3/8"

9) BOOK LXV: (1897 circa) written in Pierce's Memorandum & Accounting Book. Fragment: loose pps. Total 4 pps, 4 formulas in pencil.
5 5/8" x 3 3/8"

UWEDASAT COLLECTION: FRAGMENTS

31) BOOK LXXIX (circa 1900) written on David Bradley Manufacturing Book 6"x 3 1/4" Total: 2 loose pps.-3 formulas( in pencil) My father's notation: 1. for hunting 2. Medicine 3. For doctoring nerves.

32) BOOK LXXVII (circa 1928) 3 loose pps.- 3 formulas( 2 in pencil, 1 in ink) 5 1/2"x3 1/2"

33) BOOK LXXV (1930?) Total: 2 loose pps.- 3 formulas(in pencil) 5 5/8"x 3 1/2"

34) BOOK LXXIV(1920's) Total: 4 loose pps.- 4 formulas(1 in ink, 100 3 in pencil) 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Fragile

35) BOOK LXXXIV 2pp Parchment formulas in ink & pencil on 3 sides, Notation: probably 19th century-stitched (binding)

36) BOOK LXIX(Age Unknown) 9 3/4"x 7 3/4" Total: 9 pps of formulas (in pencil) bound together on brown paper. Notation: Handwriting of D F W K W D W F D

37) BOOK LXXVI Fragment of small notebook 6 3/4"x 4" (crica 1918) Total: 5 pps. - 9 formulas( front p., p.3 front & p.5 back-ink rest in pencil) Fragile

38) BOOKLXXXIII (1890) 3pps of formulas in ink written on Stationery of J.L. Rogers. 10 5/8" x8 3/8"

39) BOOK LXXXIV Notation: (probably 19th Century) 12 3/8"x8" 2pps letter with formulas(writing on 3 sides in ink) on brown paper stitched left margin

40) BOOK LXI(Age Unknown) 4 pps. of formulas(in pencil) 8 5/8" x 5 1/2" Heading: 3 KT AMS