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The basket woman : a book of Indian tales for children / by Mary Austin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 185
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Mary, 1868-1934.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Lenox Library (Lenox, Mass.) (bookplate) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Lydig, David, Mrs. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 222 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- School edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1910]
- Contents:
- The basket woman : first story
- The basket woman : second story
- The stream that ran away
- The coyote-spirit and the weaving woman
- The cheerful glacier
- The merry-go-round
- The Christmas tree
- The fire bringer
- The crooked fir
- The sugar pine
- The golden fortune
- The white-barked pine
- Ná Yäng-Wit'e, the first rabbit drive
- Mahala Joe
- Pronouncing vocabulary.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has bookplate of the Lenox Library (Lenox, Mass.), with ms. shelf-mark and name of donor ("Mrs. David Lydig") supplied in ms., overstamped with discard stamp on front pastedown; stamp of the same institution on title leaf; label with library rules, partially effaced, on front pastedown; date due slip pocket printed with library rules and overstamped with discard stamp on back pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 4532893
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