PREFACE. 
This present memoir forms part of a series of investigations begun by 
the author among the tribes of the Caddoan stock on behalf of the Field 
Museum of Natural History, and continued since the beginning of 1903 
under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The 
results of this investigation, which have appeared up to the present 
time, are as follows: 
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. Wichita Tales. 1. Origin. J. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. xv, pp. 215-239. 
. One of the sacred altars of the Pawnee. Trans. Int. Cong. of Amert- 
cantsts, pp. 67-74, 1902. 
. How the Pawnee captured the Cheyenne medicine arrows. Am. 
Anth, (n. s.), vol. v, pp. 644-658. 
. Wichita Tales. 2. The story of Weksalahos or the Shooting Stars. 
J. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. xvi, pp. 160-179. 
. An Arikara story-telling contest. Am. Anth. (n.s.), vol. vi, pp. 240- 
243, 1904. 
. Wichita Tales. 3. The two boys who slew the monsters and became 
stars. J. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. xvii, pp. 153-160, 1904. 
7. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. M em. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. viii, 1904. 
8. Traditions of the Arikara. Pub. 17, Carnegie I nstitution of Wash- 
ington, 1904. 
9. The mythology of the Wichita. Pub. 21, Carnegie Institution' of 
Washington, 1904. 
to. A Pawnee personal medicine shrine. Am. Anth. (n.s.), pp. 496-498, 
1905. 
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11. Caddo customs of childhood. J. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. xviii, pp. 226- 
228, 1905. 
12. Traditions of the Caddo. Pub. 41, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
1905. 
Part I of the mythology here presented contains the tales of the Kit- 
kehahki, Pitahauirat, and Chaui bands of Pawnee, as well as a few miscel- 
laneous Skidi tales, and completes the work of recording the traditions 
of the Caddoan tribes; it will be followed by Part II,in which will be pre- 
sented the music which belongs to certain tales of this memoir, and which 
will give the results of a comparative study of the tales of the various 
tribes of this stock, both among themselves and with the tales of other 
tribes of North America. 
The share of the work performed by Mr. James R. Murie has been as 
great in this present volume as in previous volumes, and without his keen 
interest and untiring patience the production of the memoir would not 
have been possible. 
GrEorGE A. DoRSEY. 
May 1, 1906. 
