Why caribou has no teeth

Motif

Why caribou has no teeth.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2345.7.3

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Cumberland Sound) Boas BAM XV 168, 306, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 587, (Alaska): Jenness 80, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 536, 554, (Labrador): Hawks GSCan XIV 160, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 449, 460.

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Filed under Why animal lacks teeth.

Filed beside it

Why cow has no upper teeth Why frog has no teeth. (Cf. A2239.8.)

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