Some western Shoshoni myths

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington D.C. : G.P.O., 1943.
Series:Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology). Anthropological papers ; no. 31.
Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 136.
House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 77th Congress, no. 471.
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Table of Contents:
  • The theft of fire
  • The theft of pine nuts
  • The origin of people
  • The race to Koso Hot Springs
  • Coyote learns to fly ; the origin of people
  • Coyote learns to fly ; Coyote becomes a mother
  • Coyote learns to fly
  • Cottontail shoots the Sun
  • The length of winter ; Coyote is bitten
  • Hawk and the Gambler
  • The Flood
  • Rat and Mountain Sheep
  • Cottontail and Wind
  • The deer stealer
  • The Sky Brothers
  • Origin of death
  • Coyote kills Wolf's wives
  • Badger, Coyote, and the Woodchucks
  • Coyote and the Bear Cubs ; the death of Wolf
  • Pole Cat, Takadoa, and Hawk
  • Coyote liberates game animals ; Wolf is killed and restored
  • The ice barrier.