GIFFORD, Edward W. & Gwendoline Harris Block, eds. Californian Indian Nights Entertainments: Stories of the creation of the world, of man, of fire, of the sun, of thunder, etc.; of coyote, the land of the dead, the sky land, monsters, animal people, etc.
Item #0962
323 p.; 8vo; maroon cloth in publisher's plain wrapper; gold-out map; 11 plates with tissue guards. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. First Edition. Stories adapted from those recorded and published by anthropologists in various publications, to wit: the University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, the Journal of American Folk-lore, and the publications of the American Museum of Natural History. Grouped according to subject matter, an effort has been made to represent all of the principal regions of California. Fine. |
