ABSTRACTS. 



I. — Origin Myth (fragmentary). 



Grandfather sees Father [Flat-Pipe] floating on water on four sticks and 

 takes pity on him. Father calls water-fowls and tells them to dive to find 

 dirt. Some dive and come out dead. Duck dives, returns to surface with 

 mud. Father puts it on pipe, but it is not enough. Turtle offers to try. He 

 comes up with his feet closed. Father takes mud from his four feet and puts 

 vvith the other, stretching it out to dry. When dry he blows piece toward northeast, 

 southeast, northwest and southwest. Rest he swings and commands earth to come. 

 Then takes rod and motions over water for rivers. Where dirt is thickest 

 he causes mountains. Father makes sun and moon to represent man and 

 woman, then makes clay man and woman. Afterwards he causes trees, vege- 

 tation, animals, and birds to live. Man and woman are then identical and are 

 virtuous. Then day and night, seasons, summer and winter, and that grass 

 shall be new one season and old one season are commanded, and that there 

 shall be lodges. Oldest was Sweat-lodge. Man and woman were left as they 

 were and all fruits grew. Then Father makes male and female beasts and 

 fowls and locates genital organs. Father says lodges and commands, shall 

 be made of birds, beasts, and fruits, and that animals shall be worthy to belong 

 to lodges. — D. 



2. — Origin Myth (fragmentary). 



Only water on earth. Man, wife and boy floating on flat-pipe. Boy asks 

 father to provide playground. Calls water-fowl and duck dives and gets 

 clay. Man makes clay and throws it all around and commands there shall 

 be dry land. Boy not satisfied. Father send^ turtle for more clay. Tur- 

 tle returns with clay on four sides of its body. Man scatters clay and makes 

 land as far as they could see horizon. Boy satisfied. Man takes pipe and 

 motions slowly in four directions and rivers and creeks are made. Man takes 

 duck and turtle and places them on flat-pipe. Indian corn first food. — D. 



3. — Origin Myth (fragmentary). 



At the beginning everything is water. There are only a man and the 

 sacred pipe. He sends birds to dive to the bottom of the water. All fail. 

 At last the turtle is successful. The man takes a little earth from it and makes 

 the world. Then he makes two men and two women, two of them Indian and 

 two white. He teaches them intercourse and their respective modes of life. — K. 



4. — The Origin of Culture. 



Seeking for a dream, a man learns how to kill buffalo in a surround ; 

 also how to catch and use the wild horse. Another man makes the first knife 

 and the first bow. Another man discovers how to make fire with flints. — K. 



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