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Blind Dupe
Ceremony of Animals Is Disturbed ...
Cliff Ogre
Zuni - Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' pp. 76, 425: Mentions not twins; qv. offsping eat; become Owl and Falcon; drought; twins with help of Spider Woman; offspring become Rock, Owl, and Falcon.
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 122.
Jicarilla - Charles Peabody, 'A Reconnaissanc...Zuni - Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' pp. 76, 425: Mentions not twins; qv. offsping eat; become Owl and Falcon; drought; twins with help of Spider Woman; offspring become Rock, Owl, and Falcon.
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 122.
Jicarilla - Charles Peabody, 'A Reconnaissance Trip in Western Texas' in 'American Anthropologist,' Vol. 11, p. 203.Arapaho - George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, 'Traditions...
Handwritten citations:Zuni - Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' pp. 76, 425: Mentions not twins; qv. offsping eat; become Owl and Falcon; drought; twins with help of Spider Woman; offspring become Rock, Owl, and Falcon.
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 122.
Jicarilla - Charles Peabody, 'A Reconnaissance Trip in Western Texas' in 'American Anthropologist,' Vol. 11, p. 203.Arapaho - George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, 'Traditions of the Arapaho' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 5, p. 302.
Curtin, p. 133 [unclear citation].
Chinook - Franz Boas, 'Chinook Texts' in 'Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' No. 20, p. 21.
Shoshone - Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, pp. 260, 262.
Micmac - Rand, p. 90 [incomplete citation].
Kutenai - compare Franz Boas, 'Kutenai Tales' in 'Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' No. 59, p. 279: The ruse by which a man kills one who...becomes a cannibal.
Hopi - J. Walter Fewkes, 'The Destruction of the Tusayan Monsters' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 8, p. 136: A guardian of Sun's house is Twins.
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Coyote - Pickaback Wife
Laguna - Swallows wife, toad, deceives, swallow mother; Boas [no citation] - Coyote, the Cranes, and the toad, no incident; Coyote goes out and dies in trap.
Cites Frank Russell, 'The Pima Indians' in 'Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' Vol. 26, p. 217: Coyote with Lynx bri...
Laguna - Swallows wife, toad, deceives, swallow mother; Boas [no citation] - Coyote, the Cranes, and the toad, no incident; Coyote goes out and dies in trap.
Cites Frank Russell, 'The Pima Indians' in 'Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' Vol. 26, p. 217: Coyote with Lynx bride, cause of loss of game animals (creation myth).
Cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the A...
Handwritten notes referenceLaguna - Swallows wife, toad, deceives, swallow mother; Boas [no citation] - Coyote, the Cranes, and the toad, no incident; Coyote goes out and dies in trap.
Cites Frank Russell, 'The Pima Indians' in 'Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' Vol. 26, p. 217: Coyote with Lynx bride, cause of loss of game animals (creation myth).
Cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 248: v. daughter lust; second daughter; wife gets him home - doesn't mind.
Cites Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' p. 338: Pickaback child - Turtle's shell makes arrows rebound, v. Twin heroes.
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Coyote - Vomit Exchange
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 227: fat venison, worms, bugs, diagnose disease.
Shuswap - Franz Boas, 'Indianische Sagen von de Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas,' p. 9: Coyote, cannibal.
Yokuts - A.L. Kroeber, 'Myths of South Central California' in 'University of California Pu...
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 227: fat venison, worms, bugs, diagnose disease.
Shuswap - Franz Boas, 'Indianische Sagen von de Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas,' p. 9: Coyote, cannibal.
Yokuts - A.L. Kroeber, 'Myths of South Central California' in 'University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology,' Vol. 4, p. 236: Theft from oven; qv. Coyote asks for half of fish, bird vomits, and...
Handwritten citations:Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 227: fat venison, worms, bugs, diagnose disease.
Shuswap - Franz Boas, 'Indianische Sagen von de Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas,' p. 9: Coyote, cannibal.
Yokuts - A.L. Kroeber, 'Myths of South Central California' in 'University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology,' Vol. 4, p. 236: Theft from oven; qv. Coyote asks for half of fish, bird vomits, and Coyote eats.
Jicarilla - Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Jicarilla Apache Texts' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 8, p. 225: Coyote and Cannibal Owl, 'one who vomits human flesh will kill men.'
Western Mono (no citation) - Coyote dances in his vomit to show how irresistible he is.
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Cuckold Loses Luck
Imitator
Kine: Lean Kine -- Fat Kine
Lecherous Father
Cites Pliny Earle Goddard, 'White Mountain Apache Myths and Tales' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 24,...
Cites Pliny Earle Goddard, 'White Mountain Apache Myths and Tales' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 24, p. 138: Consummated, same discovery. Reviled as 'scabby' and turns into Coyote.
Ute [no specific citation] - 'Sünāwavi and his Daug...
Handwritten notes on daughter lust: Coyote feigns death, reappears as young man, discovered before consummation by wart on head. Laguna - Boas [no specific citation].Cites Pliny Earle Goddard, 'White Mountain Apache Myths and Tales' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 24, p. 138: Consummated, same discovery. Reviled as 'scabby' and turns into Coyote.
Ute [no specific citation] - 'Sünāwavi and his Daughter': Feigns death, prophecies daughter's husband's appearance, asks to be buried after death. Discovered by his young son, rat catching, by marks on teeth....Family becomes stars. Son is Wolf.
Moapa [no specific citation] - 'Trickster and His Daughter': Ditto - become stars. 'Seven Stars': Throws extra member into girl; Duck as daughter extracts and cooks it. Sends...after water and become seven stars. 'Two Brothers': Sünāwabi by mistake, thinking it's other girl. Goes off.
Shivwits - 'Owl's Wife': Coyote by mistake, thinking it's other girl. Old woman, wife, four daughters. 'Three Siblings': by mistake, with boy instead of old woman.
Compare Ute [no specific citation] - 'Sünāwavi and the Grass-bug': Snip out accusations[?] from grass, starts feud in which Sünāwavi is killed and allies of the Grass-bug get off free.
Western Mono [no specific citation] - 'Burning of Coyote': Coyote's son Grasshopper knows Coyote's intention. When Coyote gives orders about his funeral, son disobeys and puts him on a platform cemented with pitch. Burned to death (custom - bodies cremated in own house). 'Coyote Who Married His Daughter': Cremated. Tells daughter to marry a sun-boy. Infant smells like corpse.
Cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 248-251: Shoots himself, pickaback home, assaults two daughters, wife gets him home. Cremated, youngest son looks back. Youngest son recognizes father out hunting by his teeth. Later shaman discovers he has put his member into baby (grandchild). All fly up and form constellation - Pleiades. Coyote can't reach them.
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