Early in the morning, when the people under the tree were still asleep, Coyote and the others began to take the pine nuts. When Woodpecker dropped the pine nuts, Coyote and the people took them and started running home.
THE THEFT OP PINE NUTS 6
While he was drinking, the girl tried to hit him several times, but Coyote dodged each time. Wlien Coyote was ready to go, the girl said to him, “Carry the babies in the jug.
THE ORIGIN OF PEOPLE
He placed the neck bone near the house in the same place where he had hidden the stick. The woman had told him to pull it out when he came to the middle of the world, but he had already pulled it out. I'll walk around." The woman turned and gave Coyote the legs of a water beetle [skate?] that walks on water.
In the morning Eva got up very early and began to weave a fine, large water jug. After the girl killed all the men in the world, she came to get Coyote. Finally the older woman told Sinav to go South and take the jar with him.
THE RACE TO KOSO HOT SPRINGS
He found a flat stick, a sort of oar, and knew it was near the house. He said to himself, "I am here." He had already climbed over the house several times, but he did not know where he was. Coyote heard them chewing and said, "What are you eating?" They put some of it in Coyote's mouth.
People took him into the house and gave him a corner to rest. Mallard said: "Quak, quack, quack," and each animal made its own noise, trying to turn the Sun. They asked Coyote to make his noise; when he did, it went dark again.
COYOTE LEARNS TO FLY; THE ORIGIN OF PEOPLE
Coyote picked up some stones and put them in his head, instead of the brains he had eaten, and started after the geese. He went to the top of the mountain where he had seen the geese and saw that they were over the next mountain to the east. He went on to that mountain and saw that they were over the next one to the east.
He turned them all over and looked below him for eggs, but the Geese had eaten them all. As the girl grew rapidly, Coyote began removing the clay he had used to make himself a woman. If Coyote had not found a living egg on the shore of the ocean, there would be no people.
COYOTE LEARNS TO FLY ; COYOTE BECOMES A MOTHER
I will choose some of the best for my people." Fine people without bows and arrows also ran over the mountains to the west. Anthrop.Pap.no.31] WESTERN" SHOSHONI MYTHS STEWARD 273 When he reached the top of the mountains where he had saw them, they were over the mountains that bordered Saline Valley. Wash the baby and tie its umbilical cord or the blood will run out.
Stay here 5 days, and then the afterbirth will come out." Coyote did as he was told. He carried the baby on his back and went home as he had come. He said that he met Mountain Sheep, who " n a handy young man, and he took her to live in a cave in the mountains.
COYOTE LEARNS TO FLY
He flew down to the small hill that the Geese indicated, but when he touched down on it, he looked at the Geese. He stretched himself and when his hands went over his head he felt something soft near his head. He felt his head and found that there was a great wound in it, and that the lie had eaten up his brains, and thought them rubbish.
When he reached the top of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, he saw no geese anywhere. He got up in the morning and hit his head on the roof of the cave. He then realized that his head had been smashed and that he had been eating his own brain.
COTTONTAIL SHOOTS THE SUN
When the girls' brothers got home, they looked inside the house and saw Cottontail with the paint on his face. They were all roasting cottontail rabbits in the fire, a big fire in the middle of the house. You burned our brothers." This made him angry, and he threw the girls into the fire.
Don't try to get too many of them.” The coyote plucked out some hairs and they turned into birds. The girl said, “Look at this.” They picked him up and held him close, like a child, to keep him warm. You are my friends.” He did not stop at them because he thought he must be good to them.
THE LENGTH OF WINTER; COYOTE IS BITTEN
In the morning they cooked him carrots (sleep:), but they were too hard and he couldn't eat them.
HAWK AND THE GAMBLER
Late in the afternoon, Hawk and Snow Bird approached the place of the Old Man, the Gambler. While traveling to the Gambler's land, someone had warned the Falcon and Snow Bird that the Old Man would do this. offer them food, but not to take it, because it would be poisoned. The Hawk and the Gambler began a ball-kicking contest.-^ They shot their balls around a long course.
Meanwhile, Hawk made one of his eggs into a ball and used it instead of the one the Gambler gave him. When the gambler was beaten he said, "You have beaten me. said to the gambler, "Sharpen your knife well and kill your people." The gambler was rubbing the dull edge of his knife on their throats and said, "Hwi, hwi," in a squeaky voice.
RAT AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP
He told the oldest to dance beside him and the others to dance with their babies on their backs and eyes closed. The children saw the Rat as they danced and saw him stab the Mountain Sheep next to him. 34;"Where's Wavitc doing this stabbing thing?" After the people left, Rat cooked the mountain sheep he had killed with a knife.
COTTONTAIL AND WIND
THE DEER STEALER
When they came home, they tied two deer at their feet and placed them side by side. He said, "Some of you had better watch that thing and see where it goes." Hawk (tuhun:) began to follow him. After digging deep enough, they reached the venison and began to pull it out.
He may come and kill us." They came back from the place, leaving Coyote there alone. Pakiiwund swung again, and Coyote said, "I will not dodge the same way every time. He was on the other side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, west of Lone Pine.
THE SKY BROTHERS
The younger one said, "We better track him down." The elder said, "We were told not to do it because we could get into trouble." The younger one had his and they started following the sheep. While the Serpent was leading the sheep back, he covered the boys' tracks so the women wouldn't see them when they got home. After bathing, the women walked round and round the spring to find traces of the person who had come.
That morning the women started tracking the boys to see where they had come from. When the women saw that Bat was watching them, they went around the hill to another place and watched. He might tell us something.” They threw Coyote into the air with a stick and he came back to life.
ORIGIN OF DEATH
He went back to his hunting camp and did the same with all the people.
STEWARD 291 COYOTE KILLS WOLF'S WIVES
BADGER, COYOTE, AND THE WOODCHUCKS
I'll try them." He sharpened a large stick at both ends; it had a kind of knife. Then he sat down and looked up at the rocks where the Woodchucks had their homes. We'll go down and see who's singing .” Badger lay still with his head on the ground and continued to sing.
Anthrop.Pap.no.31] WESTERN" SHOSHONI MYTHS — STEWARD 293 When his meat was nearly used up, Coyote came to see Badger. Coyote made himself a stick, and then asked Badger, "Do you say to them while you lie there?" Badgertold "I sang.
COYOTE AND THE BEAR CUBS ; THE DEATH OF WOLF
But if you do, make sure you skin her and cut up all the meat and take it home. He skinned her and cut up all the flesh and wrapped it in the skin, but he forgot a piece of entrails. When Coyote returned to camp with the meat, he told Wolf that he had brought it all home.
He then made a small opening in her skin and pulled out all the bones and made a bag. In the morning he went out to check and saw that the nose had moved a little and was slightly wet. The woman thought, "I wish many roses would grow so that he could not get through." Many dried roses grew up and Skunk got stuck in them.
That night, after everyone was asleep, Takadoa went to Hawk's place on the rocks to sleep with him.
COYOTE LIBERATES GAME ANIMALS ; WOLF IS KILLED AND RESTORED
He gave them to Takadoa and her boy, but Takadoa would not marry him. Wlien Coyote went hunting he never found any game, but Wolf brought home game every time he went out. Another tribe that lived in the north saw the dust in the hills and went after the animals.
When they were done, he put Coyote in the house and said, “I'm going to fight [these people] alone. The people of the north took Wolf's skin with his scalp in it and went back to the nortli.
THE ICE BARRIER
