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Zuñi Indian tales / by Aileen Nusbaum ; with pictures by Margaret Finnan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 3503
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nusbaum, Aileen.
- Standardized Title:
- Seven cities of Cibola
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cibola, Seven Cities of--Juvenile literature.
- Cibola, Seven Cities of.
- Zuni Indians--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Zuni Indians.
- Indians of North America--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 167 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1926.
- Summary:
- "A collection of Zuñi Folk Tales retold for children"--Introduction.
- Contents:
- The seven cities
- The summer birds of K'yakime
- How the gopher raced
- The maiden huntress
- The deer's child
- The locust and the coyote
- Young Swift-Runner
- The serpent of the sea
- The ugly boy and the bear
- The dragon fly
- The poor maid of Matsaki
- The young hunter
- The gift of the flutes
- The raven and the macaw
- The witch maiden
- How the youth journeyed to the house of the sun.
- Notes:
- "First published under the title of The seven cities of Cibola."--T.p. verso.
- Illustrated endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("Many happy returns of the day, dear Trudy from Grandma - April 5 - 1929") on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 167722
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