| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library |
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Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.
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| Note |
Series statement from jacket. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-525) and index. |
| 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 |
Indian mythology -- North America.
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Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Pacific -- Folklore.
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Spirituality -- Indigenous -- 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 |
0394507967 |
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9780394507965 |
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0394740181 (paperback) |
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9780394740188 (paperback) |
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