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MIWOK MYTHS

by Edward Winslow Gifford

[1917]

[University of California Publications in American Archeology and Ethnology (UCPAAE),
Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 283-338]

• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction

• [Stories told by Thomas Williams:]
• 1. The Theft of Fire
• 2. Bear and the Fawns
• 3. Yayali, the Giant
• 4. The Making of Arrows
• 5. Prairie Falcon’s Marriage
• 6. The Flood
• 7. The Repeopling of the World
• 8. The Search for the Deer
• 9. Salamander and Chipmunk
• 10. Lizard and Fox
• 11. Valley Quail’s Adventures

• [Stories told by William Fuller:]
• 12. The Theft of Fire
• 13. Bear and the Fawns
• 14. Yayali, The Giant

• Abstracts

About the Author

Edward Winslow Gifford, 1887 - 1959, devoted his life studying California Indian ethnography as a professor of University of California from 1920 to 1954. He was born in Oakland, California. He developed the University’s Museum of Anthropology into a major U.S. institution with its major field research and collections.

“The fourteen stories presented in this collection were secured during 1913 and 1914 among the Central Sierra Miwok of Tuolumne County, California. Three, which are exceedingly brief, were told by William Fuller of Soulsbyville. The remaining eleven were obtained from Thomas Williams of Jamestown . . .”

Scanned by J. B. Hare, redactor, at sacred-texts.com, May 2002. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact. This paper is available as a reprint from Coyote Press, Salinas, California.