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title: James Mooney, American Ethnographer
author: Smithsonian Institution
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18527/james-mooney-american-ethnographer/
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# James Mooney, American Ethnographer
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## Image File
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## Image Caption
James Mooney (l. 1861-1921), American ethnographer who helped preserve the [literature](https://www.worldhistory.org/literature/), language, and [culture](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/culture/) of the Cherokee nation. Plate 1 in *The Swimmer Manuscript* by James Mooney and Frans M. Olbrechts, Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 99, Washington, 1932.
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