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[“Yuki Myths” with copies of original Yuki texts]

  • Item identifier: Shepherd.001.009
  • Date: Undated
  • Contributors: Alfred L. Kroeber (author); Alice Shepherd (researcher, compiler)
  • Language: Yuki
  • Description: Contains a copy of Alfred Kroeber’s 1932 Anthropos article “Yuki Myths” and typed renderings of Kroeber’s Yuki texts, originally handwritten. The original Yuki texts include, according to the naming in Kroeber’s article, I. Origins: Taikomol, IV. Coyote and the World, V. The Thunder Twins, VII. Wildcat, and VIII. Coyote and Crow. Includes a photocopy of the handwritten original version of IV. Coyote and the World for comparison with the typed rendition. Also contains two short texts, both typed, whose identities are uncertain.
  • Availability: Materials for Item number Shepherd.001.009 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
  • Extent: 1 folder
  • Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: [“Yuki Myths” with copies of original Yuki texts], Shepherd.001.009, in "Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14718.