The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT PLATE XXIV

[This plate features a black and white photograph of a Cherokee man named Swimmer. He is shown from the waist up, seated and looking directly forward with a steady gaze. He has a dark beard and mustache that are beginning to turn gray. He wears a dark cloth headwrap, a light colored button up shirt with a dark neckerchief tied in a bow, and a dark jacket. He holds a ceremonial gourd rattle gourd rattle: a traditional percussion instrument made from a dried, hollowed gourd, used in Cherokee ceremonies and dances with a long handle upright in front of him.]