Record details

• Physical Description: xviii, 326 pages : illustrations, plates ; 20 cm.
• Publisher: Chicago : Star Pub. Co., 1896.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Issued later under title: Indian fairy tales.

Formatted Contents Note:

Talking Pine -- Song of the waters -- Dance of the wind -- Ka-ke-hete, the chief of the demons -- Birth of Skamson -- Deeds of Yelth -- Wee-nat-chee, the rainbow -- Cawk, the beaver's daughter -- Quaw-te-aht, the changer -- Great waters -- Crow children -- Kit-si-na-o, the Stone Mother -- Rain song -- Of Wah-wah-hoo, the frog -- Kloo-Kwallie, the medicine dance -- About the river falls -- Tale of the demons -- Magic of the evil eye -- Concerning a hunter and a bear -- Doak-a-Batl, the Maker -- Birth of the sun -- Spe-ow and the spider -- Ta-ko-mah, the mountain -- Bear mother -- Yelth and the butterfly (in the Chinook language) -- Translation of Yelth and the butterfly -- Klale Tah-mah-na-wis -- Reading of the totem pole -- Carving of the medicine rattle -- Skamson, the thunderer -- Sing-gamble -- Tah-mah-na-wis of S'doaks -- Vocabulary and historical appendix.

Additional Physical Form available Note:

Also available via the World Wide Web.

Action Note:

Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm

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Subject:

Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Folklore.