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Legends of Vancouver / by E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) ; with decorations by J.E.H. MacDonald.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, E. Pauline, 1861-1913, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legends--British Columbia--Vancouver Island.
- Legends.
- Squamish Indians (B.C.)--Folklore.
- Squamish Indians (B.C.).
- Indians of North America--British Columbia--Vancouver Island--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Indian mythology--British Columbia--Vancouver Island.
- Indian mythology.
- British Columbia--Vancouver Island.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Folklore -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- Juvenile.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 165 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart Publishers, [1922]
- Contents:
- The two sisters
- The Siwash rock
- The recluse
- The lost salmon run
- The deep waters
- The sea-serpent
- The lost island
- Point Grey
- The Tulameen trail
- The Grey archway
- Deadman's Island
- A Squamish legend of Napoloen
- The lure in Stanley Park
- Deer Lake
- A royal Mohawk chief.
- Notes:
- First edition privately printed for the benefit of the author in 1911.
- "These legends are printed by courtesy of the Vancouver Daily Province, in which journal they first appeared."--Page vii.
- "These legends (with two or three exceptions) were told to me personally by my honoured friend, the late Chief Joe Capilano"--P. vii.
- Illustrated title-page and lining-papers.
- Frontispiece: photographic portrait of the author; inscribed with signature in facsimile.
- Local Notes:
- Publisher's russet cloth stamped in gold on cover with design featuring four Indians paddling a canoe over stylized wave and symmetrical two-headed serpent; spine in gold with stylized eagles, clouds, lightning bolts and pine trees. Issued in tan paper dust jacket by MacDonald printed in black with people seated by a totem pole among tall straight evergreen trees; children play in the side near a large canoe.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on verso of front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection cop has dated 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("Mother- from Grace & Joseph Sept. 1924") on verso of half-title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, R. American trade bindings with Native American themes 1875-1933, page 51
- Other Format:
- Online version: Johnson, E. Pauline, 1861-1913. Legends of Vancouver.
- OCLC:
- 690169
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