Illustrated classics

Myths of the Cherokee

The Definitive Collection of Cherokee Oral Tradition, Illustrated

James Mooney

Illustrated by Tulio Barrios

James Mooney recorded these stories among the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in the 1880s and 90s, and published them in 1900 through the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition presents the collection illustrated and typeset for reading, rather than as the dense government report it first appeared as.

The illustrations in this edition are new, drawn for these stories rather than borrowed from the ethnographic plates of the original report.

Language: English
Published: March 2025
ISBN: 9783912144086

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Inside the book

The Rabbit and the Otter — Quadruped Myths, p. 79
Most of the book is text: “How the Wildcat Caught the Gobbler”, p. 85
The dance in the underworld, p. 236

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