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Ethnicities and habitats

K27n3c. The person giving tasks is an animal or a fish.

.20.39.-.41.43.45.-.50.53.56.57.59.61.63.

A

character who offers a hero difficult tasks or puts him to the test is associated with a terrestrial animal, aquatic animal, or fish. See motive K27.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Gilbert Islands [shark]: Koch 1966:48-52.

SV Asia. Chukchi (reindeer) [Polar Bears]: Baboshina 1958, No. 46:118-122; Belikov 1982:24-27; Bogoras 1902, No. 33-634; Menovshchikov 1974, No. 63, 64:232-238, 238-242.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos [Polar Bear]: Bogoraz 1949, No. 12:161-176; Rubtsova, Vakhtin 2019, No. 20:254-276; St. Lawrence [Polar Bear]: Slwooko 1979:86-91; Central Yupik (Kuskokvim) [Wolves]: Krenov 1951:181-185; Bering Strait Inupiate (Cape Prince of Wales) [Polar Bear]: Curtis 1976 (20): 157-160; Garber 1940, No. 24:195-203; Northern Alaska Inupiate [Polar Bear]: Spencer 1959:419-425; McKenzie Estuary [Polar Bear]: Ostermann 1942:91-95; Igloolik (Repulse Bay) ) [Polar Bear]: Spalding 1979:12-14.

Subarctic. Atna [Bear]: Tansy 1982:8-14; Khan [Bear]: Mishler 2004, No. 2-3:147-151; Schmitter 1910:21-23; Upper Tanana [Bear]: McKennan 1959:179-182; Kuchin [Bear]: McKennan 1965:100-103; Tagish [Bear]: McClelland 2007 (2), No. 74a: 369-372; Norman 1990:109-113; Southern Tutchoni [Bear]: McClelland 2007 (1), No. 2c, 11d: 37-39, 72-77.

The coast is the Plateau. Okanagon [Grizzly Bear]: Hill-Tout 1911:150-152; Shuswap [Bear]: Boas 1895, No. I.1:1-4

Northeast. Montagnier [Pike]: Speck 1925:16-17; Naskapi [Salmon]: Millman 1993:136-137; Mikmaq [Skunsiha Mother-in-law]: Speck 1915b:63-64; Whitehead 1988:140-154

Plains. Bisons are relatives of a bisonic wife. Blacklegs: Josselin de Jong 1914:38-52, 52-59; Crowe: Lowie 1918:110-115; Simms 1903, No. 12:289-290; Mandan: Bowers 1950:276-281; Teton (oglala): Walker 1983:109-118; santi: McLaughlin 1990:170-178; Omaha & Ponca: Dorsey 1890:157-162; Osage: Dorsey 1904c, No. 23:27-30; from: Anderson 1940:121-126; arpahoe: Dorsey, Kroeber 1903, No. 144-146:388-418; Southern Shayen: Curtis 1976 (19): 147-148; Arikara: Dorsey 1904d, No. 29:94-101; Parks 1996, No. 4, 9:128-130, 162-165; Skidy Pawnee: Dorsey 1904b, No. 79:178-185; Pawnee []: Dorsey 2006, No. 16, 28:62-68, 109-114; Wichita: Dorsey 1904a, No. 29:199-206

Southeast USA. Caddo [relatives of the Bisonicha wife]: Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick 1966, No. 10:393-397 (same in Mooney 1900:311-315).

California. Pomo [Bear]: Barrett 1933, No. 33:322-327

Honduras-Panama. Kuna [crocodile]: Chapin 1989:74-76

Southern Venezuela. Makiritar [jaguar]: Civrieux 1960:97-99, 103-108; Yanomam [deer]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 102:194-197; Sanema [deer]: Colchester 1981:54 (=Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 103 : 198); Yanomami [deer]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1990b, No. 104, 105:198-199, 200-201

Guiana. Lokono [Cayman]: Coll 1907, No. 1:682-689; trio [Jaguar]: Koelewijn, Riviere 1987, No. 13:65-70

Western Amazon. Mayhuna [Tapir]: Bellier 1991b, No. 4c: 187-192.

Central Amazon. Maue [Jaguar]: Pereira 1954:101-104; Uggé 1991, No. 6:172-181.