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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947. Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995 (OCoLC)604230884 |
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| 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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