James Mooney
James Mooney (February 10, 1861 – December 22, 1921) was an American
ethnographer who lived for several years among the
Cherokee. Known as "The Indian Man", he conducted major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as of tribes on the
Great Plains. He did
ethnographic studies of the
Ghost Dance, a spiritual movement among various
Native American culture groups, after
Sitting Bull's death in 1890. His works on the
Cherokee include ''The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees'' (1891), and ''Myths of the Cherokee'' (1900). All were published by the US
Bureau of American Ethnology, within the
Smithsonian Institution.
Native American artifacts collected by Mooney are held in the collections of the Department of Anthropology,
National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Anthropology,
Field Museum of Natural History. Papers and photographs from Mooney are in the collections of the National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.
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