Excerpt from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1919-1920, Vol. 16While pursuing other investigations among the Miwok Indians of the Sierra Nevada region during the summer of: 1906, I incidentally secured the following Short series of myths. These are presented without exhaustive study, just as they were obtained from certain Mariposa, or Southern Sierra, Miwok informants. The investigations I refer to formed part of the work of the Archaeological and Ethno logical Survey of California, conducted by the University of California through the munificence of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.