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Fourteen hundred cowries, and other African tales. Collected by Abayomi Fuja. With an introduction by Anne Pellowski. Illustrated by Ademola Olugebefola.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection GR360.Y6 F8 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuja, Abayomi, 1900- compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales, Yoruba.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 191, [1] pages illustrations 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Washington Square Press Pocket Books [1973, ©1971]
- Summary:
- This is a collection of thirty-one folktales "about people and animals, nature and the gods. Many attempt to explain some aspect of nature, whil others distill the wisdom of the Ancient Yorubas of Africa."
- Contents:
- Fourteen hundred cowries
- The wrestling contest between the cat and the tortoise
- Concerning the leopard and the hedgehog
- The beautiful girl and the fish
- The sad story of the tadpole
- The boy and the piece of yam
- Oni and the great bird
- The funeral of the hyena's mother
- Taking a sacrifice to heaven
- The snail and the leopard
- Why tortoises are sacrificed
- Motinu and the monkeys
- The twins
- The hen and the hawk
- Concerning the Egas and their young
- The elephant and the cock
- The hunter and the hind
- Oniyeye and King Olu Dotun's daughter
- Kin Kin and the cat
- The funeral of the forest king
- Ahoro and his wife Etipa
- The orphan boy and the magic twigs
- Tintinyin and the unknown king of the spirit world
- The wise dog
- The wooden spoon and the whip
- Why the hawk never steals
- The bull and the fly
- Olusegbe
- The story of stranger and traveler
- The hunter and his magic flute
- Olobun's sacrifice.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1971.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has stamp of bookstore on page [1].
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fuja, Abayomi, 1900- Fourteen hundred cowries.
- OCLC:
- 1100305
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