[Ethnographic and linguistic notes]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 794-b Wintun myths and legends
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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content: John Wesley Powell papers
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content: John Wesley Powell papers / Research / Manuscripts organized by tribe / Wintun
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880
container: label: Container
content: Box 8, Folder 12-13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.