selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First edition
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 527 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Series statement from jacket
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-525) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
American Indian myths and legends.
Title
American Indian myths and legends.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Indian mythology-- North America
Indians of North America-- Northwest, Pacific, Folklore