Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.

  • Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. LOWER UMPQUA TEXTS. Page Introduction ' i Alphabet ^ Creation Myths 7 1. The Universal Change 7 2. The Death of Grizzly Bear 14 3. The Origin of the Yakonan and Siuslaiian Tribes .... 30 4. The Big Fire 32 5. The Crow and the Thunder-Bird 34 6. The Girls and the Stars 38 7. The Origin of Death 40 Miscellaneous Tales 44 8. The Pelican and the Sea-Gull 44 9. The Beaver and the Muskrat 48 10. The Man who married the Bear-Woman -54 11. The Lost Seal-Hunters 62 12. The Dreamer 68 Descriptions of Customs and Manners 74 13. How a Wife was obtained 74 14. Invocation for Rain 76 15. Description of a Shinny Game 78 16. How a Siuslaw House was built, and the Food the Siuslaw ate 80 17. Setting Traps for Elk 84 Fragments 86 18. The Skunk and the Screech-Owl 86 19. Coyote and the Two Otter-Women 88 20. The Grizzly Bear and the Two Little Birds 94 [V]