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Indian sleep man tales : authentic legends of the Otoe tribe / by Bernice G. Anderson ; illustrated by Sears Frank and the author.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 106
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Bernice G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oto Indians--Legends.
- Oto Indians.
- Genre:
- Legends.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bramhall House, [1940]
- Contents:
- "How" stories
- More "how" stories
- How the snow bunting earned its name
- How the man got into the moon
- Tow-wa, the ball game
- The bear clan on a camping trip
- A visitor
- How con-tha gah, the coyote, got the name of being a thief
- Tribal celebrations
- The story of the peace pipe
- How the seven clans came together
- The buffalo hunt
- How it happens the badger has claws like those of the bear
- Po-too yeo, the sleep man.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 4553449
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