Why tapir has long nose

Motif

Why tapir has long nose.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2335.3.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general S. Am. Indian (Yagua): Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 736.

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Filed under Origin and nature of animal's proboscis.

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Origin of anteater's proboscis. Transformed digging-stick. (Cf. A2262.)

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