Antelope boy : a Navaho Indian play for children / by Joy Harvey ; with paintings by Arlo Nuvayouma ; photographs by Ingrid Helms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Joy, 1945-2019.

Harvey, Byron, author of editorial comment.

Contributor:

Nuvayouma, Arlo, illustrator.

Arequipa Press, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Juvenile drama.

Navajo Indians.

Navajo boys--Juvenile drama.

Navajo boys.

Coyote (Mythological character)--Juvenile drama.

Coyote.

Coyote (Mythological character).

Pronghorn--Southwest, New--Juvenile drama.

Pronghorn.

Shapeshifting--Southwest, New--Juvenile drama.

Shapeshifting.

Navajo Indians--Legends.

Indians of North America--Drama.

Indians of North America.

New Southwest.

Genre:

Drama.

Legends.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

40 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Phoenix : Arequipa Press, [1968?]

Summary:

"A Navaho boy is left alone with his grandmother and is tricked by that clever evil creature, the coyote, into making a journey to kill antelope. The coyote does not have the strength to hunt antelope himself but he persuades the boy to do so. The boy loses his way and comes upon the home of the antelope people, a Pueblo village where the antelope have taken off their skins and are "Indian". These are the antelope when they dance as gods to increase their tribe and pray for their well being. The boy is awed by them and also very struck by the girl of the antelope people. The boy is discovered and taken into the antelope people by the rules which make initiation by trespass the only solution other than death when one has mistakenly blundered into a secret ritual. When coyotes interrupt the initiation and disperse the antelope, the boy tries to find his way home. His father and grandmother befriend the lost and wounded antelope girl and with the help of the boy turn coyote's power back upon himself, killing him with his own evil. The antelope come for the boy and he returns with them to be an antelope, promising to return home when he is adult"--Introduction.

Notes:

Editorial comment by Byron Harvey.

"Long Walk Centennial 1868-1968".

"Front cover: Antelope dancer by Melvin Nuvayouma"--P. [4] of cover.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

OCLC:

2690987