and Shawano blood, and such admixture implies contact more
or less intimate and continued. Indians are great wanderers, and a
1 Fur ;i presentation -if the African and European argument see Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus.
introduction, 1883; and Uncle Remus. His Songs and His Sayings, introduction, 1886; Gerber,
Uncle Remus Traced to the Old World, in Journal of American Folklore, vi, p. 23, October, 1893. In
regard to tribal dissemination of myths see Boas, Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North
America, in Journal of American Folklore, IV, p. 12, January, 1891; TheGrowthof Indian Mythologies,
in the same journal, IX, p. 32, January ls>.ni; Northern Elements in the Mythology of the Navaho, in
American Anthropologist, x. p. 11. November, ls'JT; introduction to Teit's Traditions of the Thompson
River Indians. 1898. IT Boas has probably devotedmore study to the subject than any other anthro-
pologist, and his personal observations include tribes from the Arctic regions to the Columbia.
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myth can travel as far as a redstone pipe or a string of wampum. It
was customary, as it still is i<> a limited extent in the West, for large
parties, sometimes even a whole band or village, to make lime- visits
to other tribes, dancing, feasting, trading, and exchanging stories w itli
their friends for weeks or months at a time, with the expectation that
their hosts would return the visit within the next summer. Regular
trade routes crossed the continent from east to west and from north to
south, and when the subject has been fully investigated it will lie found
that this intertribal commerce was as constant