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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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and the Coyote 382 Folkways: Birth customs 388 Death customs 388 Tokens of death 392 A misinterpreted note 392 Hunting the horses 394 Rattlesnakes 394 The buffaloes 396 The Our Father 396 LIST OF SONGS No. 1. Traveling song of the Elf 303 No. 2. Love song of the Elf _ 307 No. 3. Song of the Elf as he is packed along 341 No. 4. Song of the Elf in the fire 343 291 292 ILLUSTRATIONS PageNo. 5. Song of the two Dove Miiiden Sisters as they become Stars 353 No. 6. Sonc; of the wizards as Koyowi-xalapan enters their estufa 367 No. 7. Crying song of the grandmother as she seeks Koyowixolapan 367 No. 8. Song of the wizards as they make Koyowixalapan an old woman 369 No. 9. The Jackrabbifs grinding song 379 No. 10. The Bluejays grinding song 379 No. 11. Deer summoning song 397 Analysis of Picuris songs, by Helen H. Roberts 399 ILLUSTRATIONS Page Plate 43. General view of Iiwweltha (Picuris) 292 Plate 44. The contest between S^qgerepoveeng and the Giant 326 Figure 9. The Picuris phonems._ - 294
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cr D o < Ih-_l LU 5 LlO < q: LUZLUC3 PICURIS CHILDRENS STORIES, WITH TEXTS AND SONGS Bv JoHX p. Harrixgton INTRODUCTION Among the Indians of the Httle Tiwa village of Picuris, which lieshidden among the mountains of northern New Mexico, the Earth isbelieved to sleep for about a month at the time of the winter solstice;that is the period for telling ancient myths. Some of the prettiestof these myths constitute the bulk of the present volume of texts.They are dictated by Rosendo Vargas ^ just as he heard them toldby his grandfather and others within the adobe walls of the homevillage when a boy while the Earth was sleeping. They haveall the savor of the New Mexican mountains and well illustrate theversatility of the language, which is capable of expressing the mostintricate and poetic thought. Characters which figure largely in the myths are the members ofthe family of cannibalistic Giants, the Elf (a youthful dwarf who hasthe strength of a man and goes about clad only in a breech

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