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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians

Author: Clark Wissler; D C Duvall
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1995.
Series: Sources of American Indian oral literature.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947.
Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995
(OCoLC)604230884
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Clark Wissler; D C Duvall
ISBN: 0803297629 9780803297623
OCLC Number: 31610409
Notes: Originally published: New York : American Museum of Natural History, 1908, in series: Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 2, pt. 1.
Description: xxxiii, 166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction to the Bison Book Edition / Alice Beck Kehoe --
Introduction / Clark Wissler --
I. Tales of the Old Man. 1. The Making of the Earth. 2. Languages confused on a Mountain. 3. Order of Life and Death. 4. Why People die Forever. 5. The First Marriage. 6. Old Man leads a Migration. 7. Old Man and the Great Spirit. 8. Old Man gambles. 9. Old Man and the Rolling Stone. 10. Old Man roasts Squirrels in Hot Ashes. 11. Old Man makes a Drive, and loses Meat in a Race. 12. Old Man sees Berries in the Water. 13. Old Man loses his Eyes. 14. Old Man and the Fire-Leggings. 15. Old Man frightens a Bear. 16. Old Man gets fast in an Elk-Skull, and loses his Hair. 17. Old Man cooks Two Babies. 18. Old Man's Escape. 19. Old Man deceived by Two Women. 20. Old Man sees Girls picking Strawberries. 21. Old Man penem trans flumen mittit. 22. Old Man makes Buffalo laugh. 23. Adventures of Old Man --
II. Star Myths. 1. The Twin-Brothers, or Stars. 2. Blood-Clot, or Smoking-Star.
Series Title: Sources of American Indian oral literature.
Responsibility: Clark Wissler and D.C. Duvall ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Alice Beck Kehoe.
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