One," who preaches regularly as a Baptist
minister to an Indian congregation, does not deal much with the Indian
supernatural, perhaps through deference to his clerical obligations.
but has a good memory and liking for rabbit stories and others of the
same class. He served in the Confederate army during the war as
fourth sergeant in Company A, of the Sixty-ninth North Carolina.
and is now a well-preserved man of about sixty-two. He speaks no
English, but by an ingenious system of his own has learned to use a
concordance for verifying references in his Cherokee bible. He is
also a first-class carpenter and mason.
Another principal informant was Ta'gwadihf, "Catawba-killer," of
Cheowa, who died a few years ago, aged about seventy. He was a
doctor and made no claim to special knowledge of myths or ceremonials.
but was aide tofurnish several valuable stories, besides confirmatorj
evidence for a large number obtained from other sources.
Besides these may be named, among the East Cherokee, the late
Chief N. J. Smith; Sal&'ll, mentioned elsewhere, who died about L895;
Tsesa'ni or Jessan, who also served in the war: Aya'sta. one of the
principal conservatives among the women; and James and David
Blythe, younger men of mixed blood, with an English education, but
inheritors of a large share of Indian lore from their father, who was
a recognized leader of ceremony.
Among informants in the western Cherokee Nation the principal was
James D. Watford, known to the Indians a- Tsuskwanun'nawa'ta,
238 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE [eth.ann.19
"Worn-out-blanket," a mixed-blood speaking- and writing both lan-
guages, born in the old Cherokee Nation near the site of the pres-
ent Clarkesville, Georgia, in 1806. and dying- when