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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.
Undated. Show more Show lessCoyote - 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.
Undated. Show more Show lessCutting; Transformations by Cutting Exits for Humans
A.L. Kroeber, 'Myths of South Central California' in 'University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology,' Vol. 4, p. 209 (Yokuts): Cut by two boys who escaped from Eagle.
Also lists with no citat...
A.L. Kroeber, 'Myths of South Central California' in 'University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology,' Vol. 4, p. 209 (Yokuts): Cut by two boys who escaped from Eagle.
Also lists with no citations Eskimo; Ute - 'Manhunter' - cut their own in imitation of dog; Western Mono - 'Walking Skeleton' - Falcon and Crow cut; cp. Shivwi...
Handwritten note that 'people as constructed cannot eat' cites several sources on cutting.A.L. Kroeber, 'Myths of South Central California' in 'University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology,' Vol. 4, p. 209 (Yokuts): Cut by two boys who escaped from Eagle.
Also lists with no citations Eskimo; Ute - 'Manhunter' - cut their own in imitation of dog; Western Mono - 'Walking Skeleton' - Falcon and Crow cut; cp. Shivwits - 'Wolf's Son' - woman and child laugh and talk; Tillamook.
Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 283: A tribe of Owls cut by twins who have just killed Eagle and been helped on their way by his mother.
Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' p. 401: First people, 'dreadful' things, emergence.
William Jones, 'Fox Texts' in 'Publications of the American Ethnological Society,' Vol. 1, p. 75: Race of pygmies transformed by Fox, childbirth by cutting women open.
Undated. Show more Show lessDaylight Staked on Game
Horned Animal Disguise
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.
Undated. Show more Show lessLecherous Father
Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 25, p. 41.
Lowie, 'The Assiniboine' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 4, p. 124.
George A. Dorsey and...
Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 25, p. 41.
Lowie, 'The Assiniboine' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 4, p. 124.
George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, 'Traditions of the Arapaho' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 5, p. 82
George A. Dorsey, '...
Handwritten list of citations:Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 25, p. 41.
Lowie, 'The Assiniboine' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 4, p. 124.
George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, 'Traditions of the Arapaho' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 5, p. 82
George A. Dorsey, 'The Pawnee Mythology' (1906), no page number.
cp. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 249.
Lists Maidu, Shuswap, Gros Ventre, and Ute, no citations. Undated. Show more Show lessMutual Transformation
Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Jicarilla Apache Texts' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 8, p. 230: The rectum incident without transformation; Wildcat and Coyote; 'That is why fat of the Wildcat is spotted.'
Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions...
Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Jicarilla Apache Texts' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 8, p. 230: The rectum incident without transformation; Wildcat and Coyote; 'That is why fat of the Wildcat is spotted.'
Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 25, p. 22: No transformation; revenge...
Handwritten list of citations.Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Jicarilla Apache Texts' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 8, p. 230: The rectum incident without transformation; Wildcat and Coyote; 'That is why fat of the Wildcat is spotted.'
Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 25, p. 22: No transformation; revenge for theft of pemmican. Old Man Coyote stakes younger brother's intestines to the ground while he is asleep then warns him that fire is coming. Younger brother runs, dies. Old Man Coyote searches the guts for pemmican and eats it, but finds it is feces and vomits. P. 24: No transformation; freezing to ice punishment for theft of Old Man Coyote's meat from the animals he killed while free.
George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, 'Traditions of the Arapaho' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 5, p. 58.
Crow (no citation): Old Man Coyote sends comrade for a spoon to eat four men whom he's knocked into a poke bed and turned to soup. Returns four times. Old Man Coyote goes and he eats soup. Punished by staking down rectum.
Undated. Show more Show lessPorcupine
Porcupine
Cites Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Jicarilla Apache Texts' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 8: A, B, and C, Coyote jumps across tail; D, E, F, F1, G (by Porcupine), H, I, I2.
Cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, pp. 267, 268: A, B (Coyote); C (Porcupine wins first test); D, E, F, G (Porcupine puts meat in tree, 'grow!'); H (half of buffalo); I (Porcupine jumps across, stuffs boy who bursts up when shaken).
Also mentions Maidu, Ute, Spinden [Herber Joseph Spinden?], 21. Undated. Show more Show less