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These handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Cp. Bear and Deer," contain information about a Crow folk tale, as related in "Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians," Robert H. Lowie, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 25, p. 48. In this story, Old Man Coyote was raised by beavers. He kills two of the children and sticks their heads out of the door.

Handwritten note: At Hallonawa, a little girl and boy are left at home while parents go wood-gathering. Boy follows his parents; rattlesnake takes pity on crying girl and takes her to live with him. They are driven from two hills by rattlesnakes who fear human retaliation. They are allowed to live on third hill, where the girl grows up. Snakes accompany her back to Hallonawa, where they are about to establish a snake fraternity (as Hopis). But…

Handwritten note: At Hallonawa, a little girl and boy are left at home while parents go wood-gathering. Boy follows his parents; rattlesnake takes pity on crying girl and takes her to live with him. They are driven from two hills by rattlesnakes who fear human retaliation. They are allowed to live on third hill, where the girl grows up. Snakes accompany her back to Hallonawa, where they are about to establish a snake fraternity (as Hopis). But the Zuni kill the woman and some of the snakes so that the survivors (including her offspring) go the the Hopi and establish the snake dance. Undated. Note in upper right corner reads 'Enter in analysis.' Show more Show less

Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Creating of first people." This is the story of Old Man Coyote creating people. He made them in the hollows of trees, and they came out without eyes, so he tore slits in them for eyes. A citation is given to "Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians," Robert H. Lowie, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 25, p. 18. Undated.

Handwritten notes on Laguna creation myths cite Laguna mss. (variant from Pedro). Keywords include: N. and I. create man; four figures from mud covered in buffalo skin; planted corn; fed people; contests (sunshine, shooting cottonwood tree, race); heavy rain; flood; water recedes; dead brought to N.; hair cut (whites have short hair); I.'s children go east; N.'s children scattered. Undated.

Handwritten notes on Hopi creation myths cite Victor Mindeleff, A Study of Pueblo Architecture (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol. 8), p. 16. Keywords include: collected by A.M. Stephens; seed of reed; god of interior; crested water serpent; mythic twins; song; Spider Woman. Undated.

These handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Creation," contain information about a myth as related in "Some Early Cheyenne Tales," George Bird Grinnell, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 20, p. 171. In this tale, man is created in the south and woman in the north. The woman brings storms; the man brings sickness and death. Fire is also noted.

Handwritten notes on a lined note card titled "Creation," comparing creation myths from Ute, Biblical, and Northern Shoshone sources. A citation is given for "The Northern Shoshone," Robert H. Lowie, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 2, Part 2, p. 236, which is a myth about Coyote creating the Shoshone people.

Three undated half-pages, typed and hand-written, headed "Creation" contain bibliographical references from Boas, Stevenson et al. to common motifs in creation myths of certain tribes, including the Zuni and the Zia. Some incorporate the creation of Mexicans and whites in the myth.

These handwritten, undated research notes on a lined note card, titled "Creation," contain information about an American Indian myth using this theme. Also noted: Darkness, quarrel, live forever, Coyote, Badger.

Handwritten notes on Laguna creation myths cite Boas mss. Keywords include: water; small island; Indians, Mexicans, whites created; creation of light; emergence; scattered. Undated.