Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual...

2 See page 20. ↑

3 Adair, American Indians, p. 81, 1775. ↑

4 Lawson, Carolina, 67–68, reprint 1860. ↑

5 Harris, J. C., Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, p. 29; New York, 1886. ↑

6 For a presentation of the African and European argument see Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus, introduction, 1883; and Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, introduction, 1886; Gerber, Uncle Remus Traced to the Old World, in Journal of American Folklore, VI, p. 23, October, 1893. In regard to tribal dissemination of myths see Boas, Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America, in Journal of American Folklore, IV, p. 12, January, 1891; The Growth of Indian Mythologies, in the same journal, IX, p. 32, January 1896; Northern Elements in the Mythology of the Navaho, in American Anthropologist, X, p. 11, November, 1897; introduction to Teit’s Traditions of the Thompson River Indians, 1898. Dr Boas has probably devoted more study to the subject than any other anthropologist, and his personal observations include tribes from the Arctic regions to the Columbia. ↑

7 See contemporary notice in the Historical Sketch. ↑