I2 THE PAWNEE: MYTHOLOGY, 
with the grouping of the stories from the view point of the Indian, will, 
it is believed, assist materially in a proper understanding of the tales. 
With the note to many of the tales I have added a few words of explana- 
tion where such seemed advisable. 
In a few instances the titles of tales are given in their proper places, but 
the tales themselves are found only in the abstracts, where they are pre- 
sented in an abbreviated form. This has been done in order the more 
clearly to bring out the rank given the tale by the narrator. It would 
have been possible to have brought about a further shortening of the 
tales by omitting in a few other instances the full tale and presenting 
it only in abstract form. In such cases, however, where apparently this 
might have been done but has not, the tales from the point of view of 
the Pawnee are different not only in character but in their origin, and 
either relate to different ceremonies or customs or point an entirely 
different moral. 
