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The Swimmer manuscript : Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions (1932)ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to those who have in many ways assisted me in completing this task. To Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, to whom I am not only indebted for my ethnological training and for many personal favors, but who has been directly responsible for my being intrusted with the editing of the present manuscript. To the late and the present chiefs of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes and Mr. M. W. Stirling; to the ethnologists of the bureau, especially to Dr. John R. Swanton; and to the officers of the Smithsonian Institution. To the C. R. B. Educational Foundation (Inc.), New York, to whom I owe the great benefit of two years' study and research in the United States. I want to thank especially Dr. P. C. Galpin, secretary, and Mr. Millard K. Shaler, the foundation's representative in Brussels. To Mrs. Allan Watson, of the Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C, and to Mr. J. Henderson, superintendent of the Yellowhill Government Boarding School, as well as to the members of his staff, especially to Mr. tlessie Lambert. More than to any other of the white residents in the Cherokee country I feel indebted to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Edmunds, jr., teachers of Big Cove Day School, Ravensford, N. C, who by their cordial hospitality of the first two weeks and by their repeated proofs of sympathy during the rest of our stay have greatly facilitated the field work. To Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C, I am greatly obUged for the identification of the botanical specimens, as well as for valuable hints and instructions. Thanks are due also to Mr. F. W. Hodge, of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and to Dr. Frank G. Speck, of the University of Pennsylvania, who both gave me valuable informa- tion and advice before I started on the trip. To all of the Cherokee informants with whom I worked I feel a great debt of gratitude. I especially want to remember W., Del., and Og., since deceased. To Margriet Olbrechts, my wife, who cheerfully shared all the joys and troubles of the trip with me, much credit is due for invaluable assistance in practical as well as in ethnological matters. F. M. O.