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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

Key to characters used

4

I. CENTRAL DIALECT (Gat‘ā'^?i).

Myths.

I. Flint Boy

6

II. The Theft of Fire and the Burning of the World

23

III. The Visit of the Geese People to Mt. Shasta

35

IV. Bluejay's Journey to the Land of the Moon

50

V. The Creation of the Yana

74

VI. Origin of Sex, Hands, and Death

77

VII. Coyote and His Sister

93

VIII. Coyote and His Mother-in-Law

109

IX. The Rolling Skull.

115

II. NORTHERN DIALECT (Garī'^?i).

Myths.

X. Coyote, Pine-Marten, and Loon

129

XI. The Drowning of Young Buzzard's Wife

137

XII. Coyote, Heron, and Lizard

142

XIII. The Finding of Fire (from Curtin's "Creation Myths of Primitive America")

160

Narratives and Customs

XIV. Indian Medicine Men

174

XV. Marriage

181

XVI. A Lovers' Quarrel

183

XVII. Childbirth and Death

185

XVIII. Death and Burial

188

XIX. Betty Brown's Dream

195

XX. Spell said by a Girl desirous of Getting a Husband

197

XXI. Curse on People that wish one Ill

198

XXII. Prayer on Sneezing

199

Supplementary Texts, collected by Dr. R. B. Dixon.

XXIII. The Rolling Skull

200

XXIV. Grizzly Bear and Deer

20

III. SUPPLEMENTARY YANA MYTHS, collected by Dr. R. B. Dixon.

I. The Creation of Man

209

II. The Contest of Fox and Coyote

210

III. The Lost Brother

211

IV. The Flints and Grizzly Bears

216

V. ‘I'lhat^?aina

221

VI. Fixing the Sun

223

VII. Woodpecker and Woodrat

214

VIII. Rabbit Woman and Her Child

225

IX. Coyote and Rabbit Gamble

226

X. Gopher and Rabbit Gamble

227

XI. Coyote and the Stump

227

XII. Loon Woman

228

XIII. Pine Marten's Quest for Moon's Daughter

233