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Title: How the Turtle got the Pattern on its Back (English)
Identifier(s): audio:6027; APSdigrec_4352; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 06
Description: Transcript and other accompanying manuscript material available in the Phillips Fund Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4.)
Source: Davies, William D. Choctaw Stories, 1980. (Mss.Rec.120); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.120-ead.xml
Subject: Choctaw Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1980-11-18

Title: How they got his beard from the turtle (Cherokee)
Identifier(s): audio:19466; APSdigrec_6871; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 04
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-24

Title: How they got his beard from the turtle (English)
Identifier(s): audio:19465; APSdigrec_6870; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 03
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-24

Title: Why turtle shells are divided into squares
Identifier(s): audio:5163; APSdigrec_2915; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Source: Crawford, James M. Recordings of Native American languages, 1956-1973. (Mss.Rec.184);
Subject: Alabama language; Alabama Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1973

Title: Race of the Deer and the Four Turtles
Identifier(s): audio:4224; APSdigrec_0553; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded as part of research funded by an APS Phillips Fund grant.
Source: Reyburn, William D. Cherokee materials gathered on the Cherokee reservation at Cherokee, N.C., [1951-1952]. (Mss.Rec.16);
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Deer--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1951-09-10

Title: How the Turtle got the Pattern on its Back (Choctaw)
Identifier(s): audio:6031; APSdigrec_4351; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: Transcript and other accompanying manuscript material available in the Phillips Fund Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4.)
Source: Davies, William D. Choctaw Stories, 1980. (Mss.Rec.120); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.120-ead.xml
Subject: Choctaw language; Choctaw Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1980-11-18

Title: The Cottontail and the Turtle (Tiwa)
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_1258; local: 02; local: 03
Description: In Southern Tiwa, Isleta dialect, only.
Subject: Isleta dialect; Tiwa Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore; Cottontails--Folklore
Date: 1965

Title: Turtle, Buffalo, and Coyote
Identifier(s): audio:14402; APSdigrec_1925; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 06
Description: Story given in Wichita only.
Source: Rood, David S. Wichita language materials, 1969. (Mss.Rec.77); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.77-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Wichita language; Wichita Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore; Coyote--Folklore
Date: 1965

Title: The Cottontail and the Turtle (Tiwa & English)
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_1263; local: 02; local: 08
Description: Interrupted text in Southern Tiwa, Isleta dialect, with English translation.
Subject: Isleta dialect; Tiwa Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore; Cottontails--Folklore
Date: 1965

Title: Turtle Goes to War
Identifier(s): audio:4737; APSdigrec_0661; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 18
Description: Includes singing of the Turtle Song.; Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 59, program 5. The Hidatsa language is identified as such in the recording's accompanying documentation, but on the recording itself it is referred to by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Arapahoan language of the same name.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Folklore; Mandan Indians--Folklore; Turtles--Folklore
Date: 1969

Title: Origin of Turtle Drums; Creek Ceremony Myths
Identifier(s): audio:4727; APSdigrec_0655; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 12
Description: This tape's contents given under the heading "Mythologies to cross-check for change in form and content since 1930."; Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 58, program 12. The Hidatsa language is identified as such in the recording's accompanying documentation, but on the recording itself it is referred to by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Arapahoan language of the same name.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Indians of North America--North Dakota--History; Hidatsa Indians--Folklore; Hidatsa Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Mandan Indians--Folklore; Mandan Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Turtles--Folklore; historical_linguistics
Date: 1969