Bibliography of California Mythology
Bibliography of California Mythology 32
BARRETT, S. A. "A Composite Myth of the Pomo Indians," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (Boston, 1906), vol. xix, 37-51-
BOSCANA. "Chinigchinich" [Luiseño] in A. Robinson's Life in California (New York, 1846).
BURNS, L. M. "'Digger' Indian Legends" [Scott Valley Shasta], in Land of Sunshine (Los Angeles, 1901), vol. xiv, 130-134; 223-226; 310-314; 397-402.
CHAMBERS, G. A. [Fragment of a Mermaid story from the Chico Midoo), in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1906), vol. xix, 141.
CLARK, GALEN. Indians of Yosemite Valley [Southern Mewuk], (Yosemite Valley, Calif., 1904), chap. vii, "Myths and Legends."
CURTIN, JEREMIAH. Creation Myths of Primitive America [Wintoon and Yana tribes], (Boston, 1898).
------ Achomawi Myths, edited by Roland Dixon, in Journal of American Folk-lore (1909), vol. xxii, 283-287.
DENNY, MELCENA BURNS. "Orleans Indian Legends" [Karok or Kworatem], in Out West (Los Angeles, Calif.), vol. xxv ( 1906), 37-40; 161-166; 268-271; 373-375; 451-454; vol. xxvi (1907), 73-80; 168-170; 267-268.
DIXON, ROLAND B. "Some Coyote Stories from the Maidu
Indians of California," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1900), vol. xiii, 267-270.
DIXON, ROLAND B. "Maidu Myths," in the American Museum of Natural History Bulletin (New York, 1902), vol. xvii, part ii, 33-118.
------ "System and Sequence in Maidu Mythology," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1903), vol. xvi, 32-36.
------ "Mythology of the Shasta-Achomawi," in the American Anthropologist (Washington, D.C., 1905), vol. vii, 607-612.
------ "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 159-177.
DuBOIS, CONSTANCE GODDARD. "Mythology of the Diegueños," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1901), vol. xiv, 181-185.
------- "The Story of Chaup: A Myth of the Diegueños," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1904), vol. xvii, 217-242.
"Mythology of the [Luiseño] Mission Indians," in the Journal of American Folk-lore, vol. xvii (1904), 185-188; vol. xix (1906), 52-6o; 145-164.
------ "The Raven of Capistrano" [Luiseño], in Out West (1907), vol. xxvi, 430-437; 537-544; vol. xxvii, 57-64; 152157; 227-233; 343-351; 415-421; 523-531.
------ "Religion of the Luiseño Indians of Southern California. Myths," in the California University publications on American Archæology and Ethnology (Berkeley, Calif., 1908), vol. viii, 128-157.
------ "The Spirit Wife--A Mission Myth (elaborated)," in the Southern Workman (Hampton, Va., 1908), vol. xxxvii, 477-480; 512.
------ "Ceremonies and Traditions of the Diegueño Indians" [with fragment of a Yuma creation myth], in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 228-236.
GODDARD, PLINY EARLE. "Hupa Texts," in the California University publications on American Archæology and Ethnology (1904), vol. i.
GODDARD, PLINY EARLE. "Lassik Tales," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1906), vol. xix, 133-140.
------ "Kato Texts. Translations," in the California University publications on American Archæology and Ethnology (1909), vol. v, 183-238.
HARRINGTON, JOHN PEABODY. "A Yuma Account of Origins," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 324-338.
HUDSON, J. W. "An Indian [Yokut] Myth of the San Joaquin Basin," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1902), vol. xv, 104-106.
JOHNSTON, ADAM. [Fragment of a "Po-to-yan-te" Yokut Creation Myth] in H. R. Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes (Washington, D.C., 1854), vol. iv, 224-225.
KROEBER, A. L. "Wishosk Myths," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1905), vol. xviii, 85-107-
------ "Indian Myths of South Central California," 33 in the California University Publications on American Archæology and Ethnology (1907), vol. iv, 169-250.
------ "Origin Tradition of the Chemehuevi Indians," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 240-242.
------ "Two Myths of the [Luiseño] Mission Indians of California," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1906), vol. xix, 309-321.
------ Notes on California Folk-lore. [A Luiseño Tale; Wiyot Folk-lore], in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 35-39.
KROEBER, HENRIETTE ROTHSCHILD. "Wappo Myths" [The Two Brothers; The Coyote and the Frog], in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 321-323.
------ "California Indian Legends" [The Pleaides, a "Southern
[paragraph continues] California" Myth; The Theft of Fire, a Yokut Myth], in Out West (1908), vol. xxviii, 66-69.
POWERS, STEPHEN. Tribes of California (Contributions to North American Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1877), vol. iii.
Contains myths of several tribes, very loosely rendered.
RIED, HUGO. [Fragments of Gabrielino or Tong-vā Myths, collected in 1852], in the Essex Institute Bulletin (Salem, Mass., 1885), vol. xvii, 15-17; 18-26.
SPARKMAN, P. S. "A Luiseño Tale," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 35-36.
SPENCER, D. L. "Notes on the Maidu Indians of Butte County, California" [The Buumo Myth--Battle of the Coyote and Bat], in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 244-245.
STEWART, GEO. W. "Two Yokuts Traditions" [Fragments of Tache tales on the Origin of Fire, and the Turtle], in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1908), vol. xxi, 237-239.
"A Yokuts [Wiktchumne] Creation Myth," in the Journal of American Folk-lore (1906), vol. xix, 322.
WATERMAN, THOMAS. Analysis of the Mission Indian Creation Story, in the American Anthropologist (1909), vol. xi, 41-55.
Footnotes
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- 245:33
Mainly Yokut, but comprising also six important fragments of
"Rumsien Costanoan" [Kah'-koon A-chēs-ta], four second-hand fragments of "Pohonichi Miwok" [Southern Mewuk], and one "Gitanemuk Shoshonian" [Ke'-tah-na-mwa-kam or Tejon Serrano].
NOTE. The author's manuscript of the bibliography has been altered somewhat in form to agree with the form preferred by the publisher.