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Handwritten notes on unlined note card titled "Cannibalistic incidents (see also Coyote and Lynx)." Also noted: Trickster's taunt -- with eating own flesh, Coyote taunted by quails. Undated.

Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Cannibalistic incidents -- Eats own body unwittingly," listing folk tales using this plot element. Tribes listed include the Moapa and Kaibab [Southern Paiute], and Uintah Ute. Includes citations. Undated.

Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Cannibalistic incidents -- Fat from own body as gambling stake," with references to the Ute and Jicarilla. Also noted: "Antelope Races." A citation is given for "Jicarilla Apache Texts," Pliny Earle Goddard, Vol. 8, p. 237. This story is of a deer and an antelope racing. The deer won the antelope's dew claws and fat from his hips. Undated.

These handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Cannibalistic Incidents -- Tricks," contain information comparing folklore of the Ute and Moapa [Southern Paiute] Indians on this theme. Also noted: Children's flesh eaten by parent, taunted by trickster, coyote and bear.

Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Cannibalistic incidents -- tricks," listing folk tales using this plot element. Citations are given, including one for "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales," Roland B. Dixon, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 21, p. 164. In this story, Hawk-Man slices flesh from his thighs and gives it to his wife to cook. Tribes listed are the Moapa [Southern Paiute], Ute, and Achomawi [Achumawi]. Undated.

Handwritten note on index card cites A.L. Kroeber, 'Ute Tales' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 14, p. 280: A man with a protruding belly, big head, and big feet and his two wives have nothing to eat but ground grass seed. They migrate east. He kills a man, woman, and two children; stuffs a boy and uses him as a decoy. Kills many people. Finally boy overcomes by drowning in a rock-bound lake he says he created by urinating. Wives follow…

Handwritten note on index card cites A.L. Kroeber, 'Ute Tales' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 14, p. 280: A man with a protruding belly, big head, and big feet and his two wives have nothing to eat but ground grass seed. They migrate east. He kills a man, woman, and two children; stuffs a boy and uses him as a decoy. Kills many people. Finally boy overcomes by drowning in a rock-bound lake he says he created by urinating. Wives follow and boy feeds them. They relish, but after sleeping realize 'my heart is bad...' Boy kills. Undated. Show more Show less

Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Cannibals," listing folk tales using this plot element. Tribes listed include the Ute, Moapa [Southern Paiute] and Tsimshian. Undated.

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.