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botany met with even more success. Miss Anna O. Shepard made 

 a large collection of plants which have been identified by the National 

 Herbarium. \\'hile at Zuni a version of the creation myth was secured 

 and partly recorded. It is planned to publish this in three columns, 

 Zuni. Zuni-Spanish dialect, and English, accompanied by illustrations 

 made bv the Indian who told the mvth. 



Fig. 178. — Barbara, nuitlur 



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Passing from the arid mountains of New Mexico to the forested 

 mountains of northern California. I undertook further work on the 

 Karuk tribe of the lower central Klamath River. I was fortunate in 

 securing as an informant the sister of the famous Salmon Billy who 

 acted as Steven Powers' informant when he was on the Klamath in 

 the early seventies. A rare cycle of .songs was obtained from Happy 

 Jack, an old Karuk man. The Karuk work now comprises by far the 

 most exhaustive amount of material that has ever been assembled on 

 a California tribe, including grammar, dictionary, myths, sociology. 



