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Cherokee fables / retold by J. B. Davis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 1313
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, J. B., active 1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cherokee Indians--Folklore.
- Cherokee Indians.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Davis, J. B. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 44 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 13 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Siloam Springs, Arkansas : Bar D Press, 1937.
- Contents:
- How the terrapin beat the rabbit
- How the partridge got his whistle
- Why the turkey has a beard
- How the 'possum killed the wolf
- The terrapin's escape
- Why the 'possum's tail is bare
- Why some animals can see at night
- The race between the deer and the rabbit
- The race between the crane and the hummingbird
- The ball game between the birds and the animals
- How they got fire
- The sun's lover
- The sun's daughter
- The sun dance
- The chief of the north in search of a wife
- The first strawberries.
- Notes:
- "There Cherokee Fables were gathered from several informants and written out several years ago. Mrs. Eliza Riggs, a Cherokee woman, living near Chelsea, Oklahoma, was my principal informant. J. B. Davis"
- Brown paper wrapper lettered in black. Front cover has black and orange pattern down the left fore-edge.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of J. B. Davis.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- OCLC:
- 5960732
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