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Handwritten notes include: the bag of wishes; the cannibal in Africa; Eating contest; Magic flight - salt = sea; Hair - instrument of cutting tree; Theme - Resentment of wife against husband; Theme - getting treasure; magic soldiers from side of body; Escape from witch; Escape up tree; Georgia; animal form. Undated.

This undated, hand-written field note on the Zuni cites: Thompson; Cherokee R19, 440. It has information on: sone, wife, grateful, hate.

Typewritten note on an index card outlines this story type: A man who lost his wife decides to marry someone who resembles her and chooses his daughter. The daughter flees with three beautiful dresses and marries a prince in a foreign land. Undated.

Handwritten notes on unlined note card titled "Caught by penis in tree." A myth about a girl who "becomes box-elder tree and member is caught; blood in box-elder." Citation included. Undated.

Handwritten citation note written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Center of summer and winter.' Notes include a discussion of Laguna myth of summer, including the keywords: summer, flower, butterflies. Winter keywords include: icicles, magpie, ashes, fight, animals. Note includes the citation, 'Predt. J 15, 88.'

A typed page headed 'Ceremonial' contains summaries of two apparent Hopi origin myths or myth themes, numbered 13 and 11, respectively, and associated with the Shupaulavi Pueblo in Arizona: 'Sun Masks' and 'Detection of Sorcerers,' with citations probably related to 'Traditions of the Hopi' by H.R. Voth, 1905. Brief additional hand-written notes with each refer to [Frank] Cushing J36.

Handwritten Zuñi notes on an unlined sheet of paper relating to ceremonial Hopi.

Two handwritten note cards with the header Ceremonial Islet, with brief observations and references.

Handwritten notes on Navajo ceremony. Keywords include: 'Crazy' boy overhears crows, fate of brothers, mountain sheep, unable to shoot, dance, sheep become gods who teach ceremony. Source: James Stevenson, Ceremonial of Hasielti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol. 8), p. 281. Undated.

An undated, typewritten half-page, headed "Ceremonies performed by animals are attended with calamities," contains bibliographical references to a common myth theme, as told by the Hopi, Zuni and other people.