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SECT Tee eet Te eee Franz Boas, Indianische Sagen von der 
Nord-Pacifischen Kiiste Amerikas. 
Curtin, Creation Myths........ yA ee Jeremiah Curtin, Creation Myths of Primi- 
tive America. 
Curtin, Modoc.......-.-....-.---....---.-Jeremiah Curtin, Myths of the Modocs. 
uirtis Ny merase sees) 2. tle. Edward 8S. Curtis, The North American 
Indians. 
Wun, Wolke Dales! sf 252 ere Frank Haimilton Cushing, Zufi Folk Tales. 
Dahnhardt, Natursagen..-....--..--...-. Oskar Dihnhardt, Natursagen. 
Gunnell, odre Tales: 2.220! 2.2: George Bird Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge 
Tales. 
ELSES Ee cas ls 9s Dee 2 rr Charles G. Leland, The Algonquin Legends 
of New England. 
AERO WHls St Pers eee tee S.C Se Washington Matthews, Ethnography and 
Philology of the Hidatsa (Mise. Publ. No. 
7, U.S. Geological Survey, F. V. Hayden 
in charge). 
Mipreitsiie- Saat 2 550. sae ek SEES C. Hart Merriam, The Dawn of the World. 
Eegrainueere eee LS Ee eee? oS NS Emile Petitot, Traditions Indiennes du 
: Canada Nord-Ouest. 
amare eet fee. SWS Se OR Doel S. T. Rand, Legends of the Micmacs. 
pase) Tiscp) in, Par North~ 22222522522. Frank Russell, Explorations in the Far 
North (University of Towa, 1898). 
mchoalcraft, Hiawatha... :.-..-...--:.--- H. R. Schooleraft, The Myth of Hiawatha 
(Philadelphia, 1856). 
1. THe Sun (4 versions: Nos. 33, 48, 54, and VAEU 23:16]). First Version.—Coyote 
asks Chicken Hawk to accompany him to the place where the Sun is being made. 
Coyote wants to try first to act as the Sun. Chicken Hawk tells him that on their 
way they will pass grease, and that in passing he may take one bite. Coyote dis- 
_obeys, takes more than one bite, and the grease falls down and rolls down a precipice 
with Coyote. They reach the place where the Sun is being made. Coyote walks 
along the sky, butis found unsatisfactory. Chicken Hawk follows, and is found to be a 
good Sun.! Coyote is envious and tries to shoot him.? His bow and arrows catch 
fire, and the earth begins to burn. He lies down on a trail, which does not burn, 
and he is saved. 
Second Version.—The animals try who is to be the Sun. When Raven acts as the 
Sun, itis dark. When Chicken Hawk tries, the sky is yellow. When Coyote tries, it 
is hot. He tells everything he sees. When he returns, they tell him that he is too 
hot and too talkative. A woman has two children, who arrive, and try in their turn. 
When the first one goes along the sky, it is comfortable; and when the sun sets, it is 
cool. He is selected as Sun. The younger brother is selected to act as the Moon.! Coyote 
is envious and shoots the Sun at sunrise.? His arrow catches fire, the earth begins to 
burn, and he saves himself by lying down ona trail. or this reason trails do not burn.* 
Third Version.—Coyote and Ya.uk"e’;ka'm are traveling along. Ya.ukte’;ka°m 
tells Coyote that they will pass a piece of fat, and that he may take one bite. After 
they pass, Coyote turns back in order to have another bite, and the fat rolls down. 
He runs after it. The fat falls into the water and sinks. When he goes back on his 
tracks, all the fat has been transformed into white stone. In order to get the fat that 
1See discussion in Boas RBAE 31:727 (references to Okanagon, Shuswap, Thompson, Tsimshian, 
_ Wasco, Wishram); see also, Coeur d’Aléne (Teit MAFLS 11:123), . 
2 Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:252, 253). 
Ute (Powell RBAE 1:52). 
3 Thompson (Teit MAF LS 6:39, 74). 
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