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Handwritten citation notes written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Coyote - Bungling Host.' Notes discuss, 'food from struck leg - Woodpecker's mother. Boas legume - Bungling Host. [...] ms (wolf) 'BH' free - wild [...] variant.'

Handwritten citation notes written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Coyote - Bungling Host.' Notes discuss, 'food from cooked stone - woodpecker's mother (Boas legume B-host). Stone rolls on c. and c'om and kills them.'

Handwritten citation notes written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Coyote - Bungling Host.' Notes begin with the following note, 'Nose far - Hopi 203 (with blood; [...]), porcupine, c's won't stop, revives and is pacified. Nose-blood - Nawalno 87 - bank bursts unto flame shamed into 'BH.' Remaining notes also include the following keywords: wood, buffalo, Zuni, blood, sword.

Handwritten citation notes written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Coyote - Bungling Host.' Notes include the following keywords: offspring, wolf, pattern, Tewa, bird, coyote.

Handwritten citation notes written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Coyote - Bungling Host.' Notes discuss, 'intestine for self surgery. Hopi 205 - badger pretends he got bull snake meat from own body. c. dis. 208 ditto - spreads for an ant child... use c. fat kr ant bites and to rid of ants. [...] ms (wolf) [...] 2 arrows [...] lodge in himself.' Additional keywords include: ant, kidneys, hair.

Handwritten note cites (1)H.R. Voth, 'Traditions of the Hopi' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 8, p. 192: Hummingbird hides in debris, Coyote 'found needle'; Coyote hides in debris, Hummingbird 'found gourd jug.' (2)Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' p. 351: In Tarantula tale, Kingfisher etc. to catch; fail. Also mentions Western Mono - Bear and Deer and Omaha - Turtle's War Party. Undated.

Handwritten note cites H.R. Voth, 'Traditions of the Hopi' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 8, pp. 196, 204: Badger assists Coyote in digging out rabbit; Badger and Mole assist Coyote in digging hole to get Hopi food. Undated.

Typed research note on an unlined note card, entitled 'Coyote cycle.' Cites Frank Russell, 'Myths of the Jicarilla Apaches' ('The Journal of American Folklore'), Vol. 11, p. 267. Note describes several folklore tales between fox and rabbit. All tales point to the ending message, 'pattern, all except last, curiosity is the fatal motive.'

Handwritten citation: Aurelio M. Espinosa, 'New-Mexican Spanish Folk-Lore' in 'Journal of American History,' Vol. 27, p. 134. Also notes Escape tricks: Dance at wedding; (2) tending school of bees; (3) holding up falling rock. Undated.

Handwritten note on Papago Coyote myths cites Henriette Rothschild Kroeber, 'Papago Coyote Tales' ('Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 22), p. 339. Coyote suffers through dangers, then retires and lives as a wise man, but his black sheep son brings misfortune everywhere. Undated.