Object Details
Collection Creator
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Collection Citation
John Wesley Powell papers (MS 798), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Scope and Contents
Consists of Wintun stories and miscellaneous notes and vocabularies. Includes:
(1) Contents
(2) Introduction
(3) Numklactawa creates the Sacramento River
(4) Hot, the Great Musician
(5) Vegetal food provided
(6) Light and Darkness
(7) [Ages of the Wintuns]
(8) Thunder and Lightning
(9) The Wind Maker
(10) The Origin of the Rainy Season
(11) Sed-it is caught in a tree: a Tar-baby Story
(12) Ber-rit- the Giant of Mt. Shasta
(13) Blue-jay, the Medicine Woman
(14) The Buzzard aspires to the Chief
(15) The Comet-Goddess
(16) Whirlwinds
(17) Wak-porc, the God of Fire
(18) Wo-mul-num-kai-a, the Red-headed Woodpecker
(19) To-ri-has, the Bald Eagle
(20) The Great Magician
(21) Bul-ti-hok, the Screech Owl
(22) Tul-tcu-her-ris
(23) [No-dal-mo-no-ko, an orphan]
(24) Lightning and Thunder & other stories
(25) [Ka-het, the Monster Bat]
(26) A Partial manuscript including numbered pages 17, 32, and 38 to 50.
(27) Notes on medicine, word lists, and lists of informants from whom Wintun Mythology was procured.
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Local Numbers
MS 794-b Wintun myths and legends
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Date
1880
Container
Box 8, Folder 12-13
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Collection Rights
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Collection Restrictions
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Record ID
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