E37. Stick people. 48.-.50.
The creator collects many sticks, feathers, reeds, etc., turns them into people (either people of both sexes and all ages, or gender and age are not mentioned).
Wappo, pomo, patvin, yuki, achomavi, lake miwok, coastal mivok, salinan, maidu, konkov, southern utah, walapai
(Cf. Northeast. Beotuk [A.F. Chamberlain in Annual Archaeological Report (Ontario), 1905, p. 117-122: Beotouks arose from arrows stuck into the ground by the Good Spirit]: A.F.C. & I.C.C. 1907, J. of Amer. Folk. 20 (106): 79).
California. Wappo: Powell 1878 [Everyone but the Coyote died during the flood; he collected many feathers of various birds and, moving from place to place, stuck a feather wherever the teepee stood before the flood; feathers took root and twigs, grew up, turned into men and women]: 200; Radin 1914, No. 7 [during the flood, Coyote and his grandson Hawk close themselves in a hole in the rock; after the flood, he builds a steam room, puts it there some feathers, they come to life; but they do not talk, move, laugh, walk, eat; every time Coyote goes to old man Month, brings him a bag of words, fleas (people start from bites move), laughing, walking, porridge and chowder; people are happy], 9 [Coyote builds a village, puts as many feathers in every house as people should be; the next morning feathers turn into people, but not they say; The Coyote goes to old man Cookes, who gives a bag of laughter, tells him not to open it on the way; the Coyote opens, writhes laughing, pours the leftovers on people; in the morning people laugh, but still not they say; K. gives a bag of lice, Coyote unties it again on the way, pours the leftovers on people; in the morning people start walking; the same with a bag of lice; then K. comes by himself, now people are running, saying]: 45-46, 65-69; Pomo: Angulo 1935 [Marumda makes the first humans out of wool, feathers, flint; they are strange, monstrous, M. destroys them with rain and flood; in his word he creates a village of people; they too not good, he tells the Fire Man to burn the earth; he saves himself every time in the sky; after the fire, he digs a hole near the river, places willow sticks around; falls asleep, goes to look; after the third attempt, they turn into people; he teaches men to hunt, women to dig roots, appoints elders, etc.; this third world is destroyed by snow and cold, the fourth by a hurricane; every time M. makes people again from sticks]: 239-260; Curtis 1976 (14) [Coyote makes willow and dogwood sticks, paints them striped on the flat side, puts them in a circle inside the house, sprinkles crushed bark side by side; sticks turn into people, pieces of bark in fleas; The lizard wants people to have five fingers in their hands, the Coyote wants them to have paws like him; they fight, the Lizard wins; the Coyote wants people to kill game pointing his finger at her; The lizard objects that it would be too easy; bow and arrow were invented]: 170-171; Loeb 1926c, No. 1 (coastal central pomo) [there was no sea; Coyote wanted to drink, snatched one of marsh plants, the water watered, the sea filled, stopping where the Coyote was; Coyote: sometimes it will be low tide so that people can collect what they need on the littoral; going to the place where they gathered set up a steam room, found ready-made poles there and only told them to stand; he stuck black feathers around the steam room, they turned into people; because of the color of the feathers, the Indians are now dark; the Coyote arranged a holiday, but for a whole month they did not share food with him; so he decided to burn the world; smeared tar everywhere and set it on fire, rose to heaven himself with fog; then, to put out the fire, he flooded the ground with a flood; four It rained for days, four days later the water came down; Coyote also made new people out of black feathers, but in the middle of an open area; Coyote taught people to collect clams, and people laughed at him; then he created waves on the sea that did not exist before, but did not allow them to fill the land; put four people to the cardinal points, telling them to blow - these are four-way winds; Coyote told the thunder to rattle in the rain ; people still did not believe the Coyote, so he turned them into rabbits, gophers, birds; told the birds to put the sun in the sky; for this purpose he organized a competition; the vulture was the fastest and raised sun; for this, people gave the vulture a basket of beads; then the Coyote created stars and then a moon that grows acorns; the ground has four pillars; at the south, Coyote put Kuks and his wife a Kux woman; shamans will turn to them; at the northern pillar, Coyote put the Wind Man, gave him a crosshair like the blades of a mill; at first he blew so much that everything was demolished, hills formed on the previously flat ground; On the eastern pillar, the Coyote put the Fire Man responsible for daylight and heat; with him Man Day and Woman Day; at the western pillar, the Coyote put the Water Man; in the middle of the world, the Coyote put Thunder man; he produces thunder when he drags deer skin; then Coyote created villages and put a black feather in each; then the villages were filled with people; the Coyote gave names to all edible plants ; when there is plenty of food, let people dance; after that, no one else saw the Coyote]: 475-484; patvin [the man wanted to marry two forty women; they refused him; then he went north, set fire to the world , and he got into the boat and sailed into the sea; the fire was moving south; the Coyote took two little boys, put them in a bag, put honeydew in his mouth and sprayed it on the fire; the fire was over, but there was no water; The coyote dug a hole, spit out the honeydew, the water reappeared; two boys were lonely; the Coyote made a lot of sticks, left them overnight in the steam room; they became men and women repopulated the land]: Powell 1877:227; Yuki: Curtis 1976 (14) [foam on the water; Taiko Mall ("Lonely") comes out of it; puts the rope four times from south to north, but the water absorbs it; then places "stone hooks" at the four corners of the world, pulls them to cross in the middle of the world, creates land; covers its edges with whale skin so that the sea does not wash away; creates mountains, rivers, birds; takes mountain mahogony sticks, turns him into people (thickened at the end into men, smooth into women, small into children); Coyote helped him, put the sun and month in the sky]: 169-170; Kroeber 1932b, No. I6 [ when the earth and sky are ready, Taikomol tells Coyote to build a house; sticks sticks round the floor, the larger ones are men, the smaller ones are women, the baby sticks are all around the edge; the house is full of people and children in the morning], II6 [roughly the same, but the whole creation without Coyote], IV6 [roughly the same; Coyote is the only Creator; creates Yuki first, then Wailaki]: 909, 914, 926; Clark, Williams 1954:14-15 [First Race destroyed by fire and flood; the evil eagle Gilluk ruled the world, was also destroyed; the Coyote, his wife Frog, Kingfisher, and the Lizard, were going to make new people; the Coyote snatched the feathers from the eagle's body, placed them in pairs on the floor roundhouse; said that these people would be better than the past, made from sticks or clay; waited 4 days, then fasted for 8 days, faced from the hearth - people did not appear; then they faced the hearth, after 4 days the feathers began to move, after another 4 days they became human, each couple spoke their own language; Coyote told who to live and what to eat], 48-49 [lame Curlew (Snipe) - Fire man; the magpie girls rejected him, he set fire to the world and sailed away in a cane boat; people escaped as birds; Coyote put his two grandchildren in a bag, ran north, put out the fire; did new people from sticks]; achomavi: Curtis 1976 (13) [The silver fox swims in the boat, then the Coyote appears; both arose from the fog; the fox combs the Coyote's head, makes a lump of skin scales, throws it into the water; the earth grows, the Fox does everything on it; makes people of different tribes service-berry shrubs out of sticks; he takes out two bones from each and makes them a woman (K.: achomavi is unlikely had the opportunity to borrow this motive from Europeans); the sons of Fox and Coyote die; the Fox resurrects them, the Coyote tells them to die forever; the Fox kills the Coyote, he comes to life; the daughter of the Coyote forces them her relative (cousin) Apon lives with her; at night he runs away to the men's house (steam room); she demands that he be handed over; sets fire to the house; the Fox tells the Mouse to shoot at the sky with a straw; the straw turns Down the stairs, Fox and Coyote go up to heaven]: 206-210; Yana [Lizard, Grey Squirrel, Coyote live in a big winter house; Coyote decides to make humans; The lizard takes three sticks to make the Hat Indians Creeks, Wintun, Pit Rivers Indians; Coyote makes Yana out of small pieces; boils water in a basket, puts sticks in it, leaves it on the roof; people are there in the morning]: Sapir 1910, no.1:209-210; lake mivok [The hawk chief, the grandson of Coyote and the Frog, asks Coyote to make people; he takes sticks of different types of trees, sticks them into the floor of the house, sings and dances all night; in the morning, the sticks turn into people, but are dumb; The coyote makes them dance the next night; in the morning they say that fleas have bitten them; the Coyote, along with his wife and grandson, goes overseas to the land of the dead; says that people will go there after death come]: Angulo, Freeland 1928, No. 3:236-237; mivok: Barrett 1919, No. 5 [The Coyote pretends to be dead; crows and vultures peck him, get inside; he catches them and plucks them; turns crows feathers are ordinary people, and vulture feathers are chiefs (human ancestry)]: 9; Merriam 1993 [Coyote pretends to be dead, catches Vulture, Raven, and Raven; tells his grandson Falcon to pluck them; along with Falcon wanders, leaving three feathers in place of future villages; vulture feathers turn into chiefs, crow into female leaders, crows into poor people]: 83-87; lake mivok [Falcon is lonely; his grandfather The coyote tells him to bring the feathers of the geese that the Falcon killed on the lake; both travel wherever there is room for a household, the Coyote sticks a pair of feathers; each couple becomes a man and a woman the country is inhabited]: Merriam 1993:146 -149; coastal miwks [the world is covered with water except Mount Sonoma north of San Francisco; Coyote sails on a long raft of sticks and reeds; throws it into the water the long side along the north south line; land appears; the center of the raft was on the mountain; the frog sits next to him, jumps into the water whenever he wants to grab it; when the water falls, it does not have time to jump to waters; she is the wife of the Coyote; when the land is dry, the Coyote planted bushes and trees; the Falcon wants people; the Coyote throws feathers into the air, they fly across the country, turning into people]: Merriam 1993:203- 205; salinan [The Old Woman of the Sea wants to destroy the Eagle, brings the sea in the basket, pours it out, the flood floods the ground, Mount Santa Lucia remains; the Eagle takes the Puma's mustache, makes a rope, throws a lasso over the basket, the old woman dies, the water stops rising; the dove brings clay, the Eagle makes it new land; turns three alder sticks into a woman and two men; they are lifeless; he revives them in the steam room]: Mason 1918:105; Maidu [Heavenly Chief (HB) sends the Turtle to the bottom; the second time she brings earth under its claws; HB puts it on water, land grows; Talking through the nose (GN) eats a piece salmon put HB in the river; the river dries up; causes not two deer or badgers, but many at once, cannot catch a single one; HB causes salmon from a hollow tree, fills the basket; warns not eat the first fish; GN eats, calls fish from the next tree, frogs and snakes fall in from there; HB puts two sticks side by side, by morning they turn into a man and a woman; the woman tickles him, he does not laugh; GN brings ten sticks, HB takes eight of them; the remaining two make two beauties; they tickle GN, he laughs, they become old women; HB creates a rejuvenating lake; Kuksu bathes in it, becomes young and handsome; MR. says people should die and hold memorial ceremonies; NV sends a rattlesnake, GNB's bitten son dies; GBN regrets that death was done irreversible; HB goes inside the mountain, meets the first dead, the son of GN; sends back GN himself, because he is alive]: Curtis 1976 (14): 173-176; konkov [Kó-doyam-peh and Hel'-lo-kai-eh came with east; K. promised to create man, H. did not believe; K. took two yellow sticks, put them to bed; in the morning they turned into man and woman; H. tried to do the same; in the morning he felt like He poked him under his ribs twice, laughed; two women nearby, normal and one-eyed; K.: this is because you laughed; K. sent the man he created to earth; fruits and game were abundant and easy there available; but K. forbade lighting a fire; H. advised to break the ban; the game and fruits immediately disappeared, leaving only rhizomes, clover and earthworms; K. also made three seasons, and it rained, wind, etc.; illness and death appeared; K. said that those who behaved correctly would follow the right path after death, and those who did wrong would follow the left path]: Powell 1877:292-294.
Big Pool. Southern Utah: Lowie 1924, No. 2 [Süna'wavi (Wolf) cut pieces of branches, put them in a bag; Coyote untied out of curiosity, people jumped out, ran away; S. wanted people to live in order, everyone mixed, Utah is not enough], 2a [The wolf put pieces of branches in the bag, let the Fox pour out the contents behind the hill, but not before; Utah were at the very bottom, there were few]: 3-4; (about the same in Givón 2013, No. 1:5-10).
The Great Southwest. Valapai: Kroeber 1935:245-246 [One mountain rises in the primary ocean; then the water around it dries up; Matavilla cuts reeds, turns reeds into people, each reed is special tribe], 247 [first the land is covered with water; (the waters come down); the Coyote cuts reeds, turns the reeds into people of different tribes].