NAA MS 2191
Text includes biographical notes on Sequoya, principally pages 30-37, and on Major George Lowrey, pages 30-70.
Manuscript 2191, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Letter states: "The name Wah ne nau hi, signed to the manuscript, is my own Cherokee name. You are at liberty to use either Cherokee, or English name in connection with the Manuscript. Major George Lowrey was my grandfather and I was at his house when George Guess (Sequoyah) left for the West, also when his companions returned without him."
Purchased from Mrs. Lucy L. Keys (Wah-ne-nau-hi), of Vinita, Indian Territory, 1899. Letters of transmittal in Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence files, dated September 4 and November 8, 1889. Letter of November 14 from J. W. Powell to Mrs. Keys transmits voucher for ten dollars for purchase of manuscript.
Parts of this manuscript are quoted by James Mooney in "Myths of the Cherokee," 19th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900, Part 1, where it is referred to only by the authorʹs Cherokee name.
Publishd as Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 196, Anthro. Pap. 77, Washington, D.C. 1966. (ed. and introd. by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick.) *Note. This catalog card and 6 pages of copies of transmitted correspondence referred to above were not included on the microfilm copy.
Autograph Document