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This undated, hand-written note about Mescalero trip accounts contains a column of dates, a column of sums and a calculation of a monetary amount at the bottom. In the center is written, "Mrs. J.E. Covill."

Date: February 28 - March 1, 1941. Typewritten document from The Board of Home Missions of the Congregational and Christian Churches: The American Missionary Association Division - seminar on Indian work. A list of the individuals who attended the seminar and some of the issues queried are presented in this essay.

Handwritten notes list two Franz Boas citations: Tsimshian Mythology (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol. 31); and Kutenai Tales (Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology, No. 59). Undated.

Handwritten note on cites Franz Boas, 'Notes on Mexican Folk-Lore' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 25, p. 226: In a vision induced by putting the excretions from the eyes of a barking dog into her own eyes, an aged woman is given a candle by the dead. Undated.

These handwritten, undated research notes on a lined note card, titled "Borrowed feathers," contain a brief note about a South American myth.

Two undated half-pages, typed and hand-written, headed "Borrowed Feathers" contain bibliographical references from Gifford, et al. to a common myth motif of Southwest Native American tribes.

Two undated half-pages, typed and hand-written, headed "Borrowed Feathers," contain bibliographical references to a common myth motif, as told by tribes including the Zuni, Hopi and Laguna.

This undated, hand-written field note on the Zuni is a citation, "Haide Sw. JEV - Raven flies with the geese & they drop him."

Handwritten notes on unlined note card that read, in part, "To win her, borrowed lips, arms etc. etc. from various spirits. When takes her back to spirit land, these are demanded. (Girl chided by son's mother and sent home on gentle ... wind ...)" Undated.

These handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Borrowing ...," contain information as related in "Folk-Tales of the Tepecanos," J. Alden Mason and Aurelio M. Espinosa, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 27, p. 170. In this story, Pedro de Ordimales tricks people to get what he wants, finally borrowing the priest's clothes to "get his magic."