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Handwritten notes on Sia creation myths cite Matilda Coxe Stevenson, 'The Sia' ('Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' Vol. 11), pp. 27-35. Subjects include: Two women created - the mother of all Indians and the mother of all others. Clans assigned. People of the clouds work for people of the Earth, who smoke to provide a screen to keep cloud people invisible. Creation of light - Sun (red stone), Moon (darker stone), Stars (white crystal)…

Handwritten notes on Sia creation myths cite Matilda Coxe Stevenson, 'The Sia' ('Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' Vol. 11), pp. 27-35. Subjects include: Two women created - the mother of all Indians and the mother of all others. Clans assigned. People of the clouds work for people of the Earth, who smoke to provide a screen to keep cloud people invisible. Creation of light - Sun (red stone), Moon (darker stone), Stars (white crystal). Undated. Show more Show less

Handwritten notes on Hopi creation myths cite H.R. Voth, 'Traditions of the Hopi' ('Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 8), pp. 1-3. Subjects include: Hard Being Women (east and west); deities create dry land with no living creatures; wren of clay to inspect earth (compare Noah's dove); deities make animals, birds, man, etc.; Spider Woman imitates and makes Spaniards (who visit with intent to kill). Undated.

Handwritten notes on Sia creation myths cite Matilda Coxe Stevenson, The Sia (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol. 11). pp. 31-34. Keywords include: two sisters quarrel; guessing contest; contest for first rays of sun (creation of First and Second Man); sisters wrestle; younger sister kills older sister; cuts out heart and cuts it to pieces (origin of rats); cacti. Undated.

Handwritten notes on a variant Hopi creation myth cite H.R. Voth, 'Traditions of the Hopi' ('Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 8), pp. 5-9. Subjects include: Hard Being Woman of the West and Sun. Hard Being Woman creates birds from her cuticles and animals from her hair and the Sun's rays animals. Hard Being Woman creates clans from her cuticles. Sun makes the world but sees 'water lice' (whites, Spaniards, and Mormons)…

Handwritten notes on a variant Hopi creation myth cite H.R. Voth, 'Traditions of the Hopi' ('Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 8), pp. 5-9. Subjects include: Hard Being Woman of the West and Sun. Hard Being Woman creates birds from her cuticles and animals from her hair and the Sun's rays animals. Hard Being Woman creates clans from her cuticles. Sun makes the world but sees 'water lice' (whites, Spaniards, and Mormons). Undated. Show more Show less

Handwritten citation note written on lined notecards titled, 'Creation Myth: Messages to 'Mother.' Note card includes references to the humming bird ending the drought. Along with mention of the Laguna myth variants on the 'whirlwind man,' 'deserted children,' Tobecco riddle,' and '4 worlds.', The myth of the coyote by the Cochiti, and the 'Tobecco riddle' and 'Deserted children' myth variants by the Hopi, and a brief mention of Zuni myths.

This is a typewritten note with handwritten notations titled, "Creation of a Clowning Cult". It has comparative notes on the Laguna (Western Keres), Sia and Zuni with citations from Parsons PaAM 19, Stevenson RBAE 11-35, and Parsons MAAAA 4-239.

Two undated half-pages, typed and hand-written, headed "Creation of Sun" contain bibliographical references from Boas, Parsons, Stevenson, et al. to variations on a common myth by certain tribes, including the Zia.

This undated, hand-written field note on Pima mythology describes a Papago creation myth as cited by H.R. Kroeber.

These handwritten, undated research notes on the front and back of a lined note card, titled "Creation -- Paviotso," compare variations of creation myths of the Paviotso [Northern Paiute] Indians. Items noted: Mark, fire, children fight, parents weeping, cannibal eats child, rolling skull, gamble, Big Owl, gopher, deer hunter, ogre, dying god. Also noted: "Coyote" in "Purgatory."

A 22-page, typewritten manuscript, heavily edited by hand, is headed "The Story of Creation, Pima" and contains information on: the creation of the world by Earth Doctor; the formation of Man out of red clay; a great flood; the invention of death. A note at the top of the first page, dated Sept. 1954, indicates pages 25 and 27 are missing.