Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
These myths and tales are the free translations of texts recorded in the dialect of the White Mountain Apache. The texts themselves with word for word translations follow as Part IV of the volume. They were recorded, with one exception, during the winter of 1910 as a part of t...
These myths and tales are the free translations of texts recorded in the dialect of the White Mountain Apache. The texts themselves with word for word translations follow as Par...
2. Part 2The Sun got up and reached inside to a shelf from which he took up an iron knife like a sword. Turning around he took up a bow and arrows having iron heads. There were two of th...
3. Part 3During the night the horses had come together. One bridle was lying at the east and the other at the west. They told the horses they must all stay there together. When the broth...
4. Part 4When the Sun rose, Spider-old-woman went out-of-doors. “It is not yet time, my grandson,” she said. She held up five fingers horizontally and said it would be time when the Sun...
5. Part 5When they put it on the foot of one of these boys, he kicked it to the other boy, who kicked it back. When this had been done four times one of them directed that wood be brough...
6. Part 6Told by the father of Frank Crockett in February, 1910. For the distribution of this story see p. 67 above. It was said to be the myth of a ceremony used to cure one who gets il...