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Title The Whistling skeleton : American Indian tales of the supernatural / collected by George Bird Grinnell ; edited by John Bierhorst ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Four Winds Press, [1982]
©1982

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  J398.2 WHI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 398.2 GRI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J398 WHI    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J398.2 W57    Check Shelf
Description xi, 110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 109-110.
Summary Includes nine mystery tales told by Pawnee, Blackfoot, and Cheyenne storytellers in the late nineteenth century.
Contents The whistling skeleton -- Sees in the night -- Deer Boy -- The stolen girl -- The death of Low Horn -- Ghost story -- The boy who was sacrificed -- Wolf Man -- Red Robe's dream.
Subject Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Folklore.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains -- Folklore.
Subject Supernatural -- Folklore.
Added Author Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938.
Bierhorst, John.
Parker, Robert Andrew.
ISBN 0590078011: $12.95
9780590078016
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