MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE OLD SOUTHWEST [SOLD]

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE OLD SOUTHWEST

By Katharine Berry Judson

Publisher: A. C. McClurg & Co, Chicago, 1912

First edition, hardback, 193 pages, profusely illustrated with photographs

Green cloth cover over board with Saguaro Cactus image and white lettering

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Beginning of Newness                                          Zuni (New Mexico)

The Men of the Early Times                                        Zuni (New Mexico)

Creation and Longevity                                           Achomawi (Pit River, Calif)

Old Mole’s Creation                                                      Shastika (Calif)

The Creation of the World                                          Pima (Arizona)

Spider’s Creation                                                           Sia (New Mexico)

The Gods and the Six Regions                                     . . . . .

How Old Man Above Created the World                  Shastika (Calif)

The Search for the Middle and the Hardening

               Of the World                                          Zuni (New Mexico)

Origin of Light                                                       Gllinomero (Russian River, Calif)

Pokoh, the Old Man                                              Pai Ute (near Kern River, Calif)

Thunder and Lightning                                          Maidu (near Sacramento Valley, Calif)

Creation of Man                                                     Miwok (San Joaquin Valley, Calif)

The First Man and Woman                                     Nishinam (near Bear River, Calif)

Old Man Above and the Grizzlies                           Shastika (Calif)

The Creation of Man-kind and the Flood                Pima (Arizona)

The Birds and the Flood                                         Pima (Arizona)

Legend of the Flood                                               Ashochimi (Coast Indians, Calif)

The Great Flood                                                     Sia (New Mexico)

The Flood and the Theft of Fire                              Tolowa (Del Norte Co., Calif)

Legend of the Flood in Sacramento Valley             Maidu (near Sacramento Valley, Calif)

The Fable of the Animals                                        Karo (near Klamath River, Calif)

Coyote and Sun                                                     Pai Ute (near Kern River, Calif)

The Course of the Sun                                           Sia (New Mexico)

The Foxes and the Sun                                          Yurok (near Klamath River, Calif)

The Theft of Fire                                                     Karok (near Klamath River, Calif)

The Theft of Fire                                                     Sia (New Mexico)

The earth-hardening after the Flood                      Sia (New Mexico)

The Origins of the Totems and of Names               Zuni (New Mexico)

Traditions of Wanderings                                       Hopi (Arizona)

The Migration of the Water People                          Walpi (Arizona)

Coyote and the Mesquite Beans                             Pima (Arizona)

Origins of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range     Yokuts (near Fresno, Calif)

Yosemite Valley and its Indian names                                    . . . . .

Legend of Tu-tok-a-nú-la (El Capitan)                   Yosemite Valley

Legend of Tis-sé-yak (South Dome and

               North Dome)                                           Yosemite Valley

Historic Tradition of the Upper Tuolumne               Yosemite Valley

California Big Trees                                                Pai Ute (near Kern River, Calif)

The Children of Cloud                                             Pima (Arizona)

The Cloud People                                                   Sia (New Mexico)

Rain Song                                                              Sia (New Mexico)

Rain Song                                                                . . . . .

Rain Song                                                              Sia (New Mexico)

The Corn Maidens                                                  Zuni (New Mexico)

The Search for the Corn Maidens                           Zuni (New Mexico)

Hasjelti and Hostjoghon                                         Navajo (New Mexico)

The Song-hunter                                                    Navajo (New Mexico)

Sand Painting of the Song-hunter                          Navajo

The Guiding Duck and the Lake of Death               Zuni (New Mexico)

The Boy Who became God                                     Navajo (New Mexico)

Origin of Clear Lake                                                Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Calif)

The Great Fire                                                         Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Calif)

Origin of the Raven and the Macaw                        Zuni (New Mexico)

Coyote and the Hare                                               Sia (New Mexico)

Coyote and the Quails                                            Pima (Arizona)

Coyote and the Fawns                                            Sia (New Mexico)

How the Bird Got its Color                                      Pima (Arizona)

Coyote’s Eyes                                                         Pima (Arizona)

Coyote and the Tortillas                                         Pima (Arizona)   

Coyote as a Hunter                                                Sia (New Mexico)

How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite                     Pima (Arizona)

Coyote and the Rattlesnake                                  Sia (New Mexico)

Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti           Pima (Arizona)

The Thirty Quails                                                    Pima (Arizona)

The Boy and the Beast                                           Pima (Arizona)

Why the Apache are Fierce                                     Pima (Arizona)]

Speech on the Warpath                                         Pima (Arizona)

The Spirit Land                                                      Gallinomero (Russian River, Calif)

Song of the Ghost Dance                                      Pai ute (Kern River, Calif)

 Condition: very good condition