''These stories were formerly related at night in the circular assembly houses of the Miwok. Certain men versed in the myths often travelled from village to village, telling the tales in the assembly house of each village.
Such a raconteur was known as an ''utentbe''... Each utentbe was paid for his services, his audience presenting him with baskets, beads, furs, and food. Thomas Williams, who was formerly an utentbe, said that the telling of myths took all night. Not infrequently the myth was chanted. Each myth, whether chanted or told in ordinary prose, was often accompanied by the songs of the various characters.''
(From ''NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS", Collected 1636-1919, Rosalind Kerven,1988)
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