4                                       Karl Kroeber

materials, alonii' with those slathered from other so-called third-
world cultures, show the Hellenic-lYiropean oral tradition to be
but one of many, and not the model for all oral literatures, which
are formalK' as ili\crse as written literatures.
 

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((J(iurrcs\' of the Xarional Museums of (>anada)

The Beynon collection includes rettanslations of several of the
stories collected by another of Boas's informants, George Hunt.
Such retranslaticuis are rare, and a quick comparison of the col¬
lections in the Library suggests to me that Beynon had a finer