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The earth speaks / by Princess Atalie.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 157
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atalie, Princess, 1895-1944.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Plants--Folklore.
- Plants.
- Flowers.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Applebaum, Rachelle (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Gelling, Virginia Valrie (bookplate) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Johnson, Gail (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Schlittler, Libby (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Smith, Melba (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Warthan, Patricia (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fleming H. Revell Co., [1940]
- Contents:
- How the world was made
- Indian pipes
- Origin of medicine
- Eyebright Flowers (Na-Wi-Qua, mother of womanhood)
- How the seasons came with the birds
- Origin of the winds
- How the flowers came to be
- Squaw vine
- How rain came
- The first butterfly and rainbow
- Father of Indian corn
- Why the evergreens are green
- Fireweed (Goldenrod)
- The return of tobacco
- Indian turnip (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
- Annunga (The star flower)
- The blue bell
- Moccasin flower (Lady's-slipper)
- Mountain laurel
- Butterfly weed
- The dandelion
- The first violet
- Custer's heart flowers
- The water lily
- Snowdrop flowers
- Indian arrow heads
- Origin of hemp (flax)
- Ground laurel (trailing arbutus)
- The adder tongue violet
- Indian feather (the evening star)
- Wild columbine
- Witch grass or spear finger
- Origin of strawberries
- White-pink azalea
- Buffalo flowers (blue lupine)
- Sage
- The Cherokee rose
- Cactus plant
- The sunflower
- False for-get-me-nots (brooklime)
- Soapwort (bouncing bet)
- Mistletoe
- The wood lily
- Lily of the valley
- White hearts (Dutchman's breeches)
- Wild honeysuckle (yellow)
- Trumpet flower (yellow jessamine)
- Cherokee gods and their abiding places
- Mimosa
- The coming of the palefaces.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining-papers.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy has ms. note in blue ink on back free endpaper: "Read in 2 Sittings at our house 35 chapters Wed. July 29th Melba Smith Virginia Valrie Gail Johnson Libby Schlittler Patricia Warthan Rachelle Applebaum Last 15 chapters Thurs. a.m. Aug. 6 '53 Audrey's houseparty, Fern Lake V.V. Gail Libby Angie Rachelle Patricia".
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has illustrated bookplate of Virginia Valrie Gelling on verso of front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1719852
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