FOLK-LORE. 



No. 17. DORSEY, GEORGE A. Traditions of the Ankara. Octavo, 202 pages. Pub- 

 lished 1904. Price $1.00. 



A collection of eighty-two folk tales of the Arikara Indians of North Dakota, 

 a tribe of the Caddoan stock, most nearly related to the Skidi Pawnee. The tales 

 are arranged in groups as follows: Creation Myths; Transformation Myths; Rite 

 Myths; Miscellaneous; Animal Tales; Traditions embodying superstitions or strange 

 beliefs and wild tales. There is an introduction, and abstracts of each tale are given. 



No. 21. DORSEY, GEORGE A. Mythology of the Wichita. Octavo, vni+351 pages. 



Published 1904. Price $1.50. 



A collection of sixty tales of the Wichita tribe of the Caddoan stock, living in 

 Oklahoma. The tales are arranged according to certain Wichita cosmogonic con- 

 ceptions, namely, Creation, Transformation, and Present. Several of the tales are 

 represented by one or more variants. An introduction gives a general account of 

 Wichita ethnology. The tales are all provided with abstracts. 



No. 41. DORSEY, GEORGE A. Traditions of the Caddo. Octavo, 136 pages. Pub- 

 lished 1905. Price $0.50. 



The Caddo tales presented in the above publication were collected during the 

 years 1903-1905 and form part of a systematic investigation of the religious system 

 and ceremonial organization of the tribes of the Caddoan stock. The Caddo since 

 1859 have lived in western Oklahoma, between the Washita and Canadian rivers, 

 where they have been closely associated with the Wichita. They retain practically 

 nothing of their ancient culture. Their early home was in Louisiana, on the lower 

 Red River. Later they migrated toward the Texas border, and still later to Brazas 

 River in Texas. Like the Wichita, their early habitations were conical grass lodges, 

 and they were agriculturists, hunting the buffalo only within comparatively recent 

 times. 



No. 59. DORSEY, GEORGE A. The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I). Octavo, 546 pages. 



Published 1906. Price $2.00. 



A collection of 148 tales of the Pawnee, representing the Chaui, Kitkehahki, 

 Skidi, and Pitahauirat, which constitute the four bands of the Pawnee who to-day 

 live in Oklahoma. This volume forms a supplement to Traditions of the Skidi 

 Pawnee, Volume III of the Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. The 

 tales are grouped according to the Pawnee conception of tales : True Stories of the 

 Heavenly Beings; Tales of Ready-to-Give ; The Origin of Medicine Ceremonies or 

 Power; Coyote Tales. A brief introduction relates the method of obtaining the 

 material and all the tales are furnished with abstracts. Many of the tales contain 

 one or more songs. 



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