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Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 1994, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1938 by The American Folk-Lore Society, New York, as Volume XXXI in the series, Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-

Myths and tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians / Morris Edward Opler.

p. cm.

Originally published: New York: American Folk-lore Society, 1938, in series: Memoirs of the American Folklore Society ; v. 31.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780486145761

1. Jicarilla IndiansFolklore. 2. Jicarilla mythology. I. Title.

E99.J5066 1994b

398.2089972dc20

94-40592

CIP

Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

PREFACE

So rich is Jicarilla Apache mythology that, despite the apparent fullness of this volume, it has required merciless slashing and steady pruning to reduce it to its present size. Therefore, before discussing what has been retained, it is perhaps advisable to make some comment concerning those stories which have been excluded from this collection.

In the first place all stories which have to do primarily with raid or war-path have been eliminated from this volume. Though these stories are always represented as a record of events which actually occurred, many of them are overlaid with tales of encounters with supernaturals, and the exploits of their heroes have grown to legendary proportions. Consequently it may be felt that they belong in the present collection. Yet they bear so completely upon the war and raiding complexes and follow so closely the warfare and raiding practices of the Jicarilla that they will serve as invaluable documents with which to illuminate an ethnological account. I have accordingly decided to reserve them for that purpose.

There is another group of tales which has grown up around behavior patterns between relatives and affinities. The strong joking relationship which obtains between Jicarilla cross-cousins of the same sex, for instance, is celebrated by stories which have become the common and traditional property of all Jicarilla. But again, these stories refer so particularly to an ethnological context that I feel justified in retaining them to implement a monograph on Jicarilla social organization.

Likewise excluded is a group of stories which have to do with visits of the sick and dying to the land of the dead. The necessity for dealing with this material in descriptions of the death rites is so patent that I have no hesitancy in saving it for such use.

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