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When the storm god rides : Tejas and other Indian legends / retold by Florence Stratton ; collected by Bessie M. Reid (Mrs. Bruce Reid) ; illustrated by Berniece Burrough.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4634
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stratton, Florence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hasinai Indians--Folklore.
- Hasinai Indians.
- Indians of North America--Texas--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- McGary, Miss (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Johnson, Miss (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 243 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Tejas and other Indian legends
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1936.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Florence Stratton
- When the Storm God Rides
- How the North Wind Lost His Hair
- Kachina Brings the Spring
- The Sweet Gum's Amber Tears
- The Plant that Grows in Trees
- Why the Woodpecker Pecks
- The Woodpecker's Stumpy Tail
- Chief Two Hawks' Trail
- The Magnolia Babies
- Old Wooly Bird's Sacrifice
- A Tribe that Left Its Shore
- The Cloud that Was Lost
- The Swift Blue One
- The Wise Man's Big Bald Head
- Grandmother River's Trick
- Why Humming Birds Drink Only Dew
- When the Stars Took Root
- The Maiden Who Loved a Star
- Old Quanah's Gift
- How Sickness Entered the World
- The Evil Water Spirits
- Why the Irises Hold Hands
- The Pecan Tree's Best Friend
- When the Rainbow Was Torn
- Paisano, Hater of the Rattlesnake
- Maidens Who Broke a Drouth
- Why Arrows Have Feathers
- The Cottonwood Remembers
- Why the Skunk Walks Alone
- How the Turkey Hid Her Eggs
- Why the Dog's Earls Flop
- About the Tejas Indians
- Interesting Things to Do
- Indian Symbols.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has ms. gift inscription ("Miss McGary from Miss Johnson") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy has evidence of stamp on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 2363853
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