Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xv, 527 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
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Note |
Series statement from jacket. |
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Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 522-525. |
Contents |
Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit: tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero: monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup: war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes: tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries: trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs: stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night: ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever: visions of the end. |
Subject |
Indians of North America -- Folklore
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Indian mythology -- North America.
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Added Author |
Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008
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Ortiz, Alfonso, 1939-1997.
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ISBN |
0394740181 (pbk.) |
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0394507967 $19.95 |
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