Chi-Weé : the adventures of a little Indian girl / by Grace Moon ; illustrated by Carl Moon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moon, Grace, 1877-1947.

Contributor:

Moon, Carl, 1878-1948, illustrator.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Pueblo Indians.

Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.

Pueblo Indians--Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Strobridge, Marcia (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1931.

Summary:

Chi-Weé, who lives with her mother in a great stone pueblo on a high mesa, has numerous adventures including a kidnapping involving a goat, a trip to an ancient pueblo where she captures a bear with her friend Loki, and many other encounters.

Local Notes:

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 copy has color-illustrated bookplate of Marcia Strobridge (possibly to be identified with Marcia Strobridge, later Thomas, 1924-2009) on leaf following front free endpaper.