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The Indian fairy book : from the original legends / with eight illustrations in color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E98.F6 S37
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864, compiler.
- Series:
- Fairy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North America.
- Indians of North America--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America.
- Fairy tales--North America.
- Fairy tales.
- Folklore--North America--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore.
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Juvenile works.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding).
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding).
- Folklore
- Juvenile works
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1910-1920.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1910-1920.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- Hood -- 1916.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 preliminary leaves, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1916]
- Summary:
- A collection of Indian fairy tales that have been passed on to their children from generation to generation.
- Contents:
- The boy who set a snare for the sun
- Manabozho, the mischief-maker
- The red swan
- The celestial sisters
- Gray Eagle and his five brothers
- He of the little shell
- Osseo, the son of the Evening Star
- The wonderful exploits of grasshopper
- The toad-woman
- The origin of the robin
- White feather and the six giants
- Sheem, the forsaken boy
- Strong Desire and the red sorcerer
- The magic packet
- The man with his leg tied up
- Leelinau, the lost daughter
- The winter spirit and his visitor
- The enchanted moccasins
- The Weendigoes and the bone-dwarf
- The fire-plume
- The bird lover
- Bokwewa, the humpback
- The little boy-man
- Wunzh, the father of Indian corn.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining-papers.
- "These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft ... In 1856 this collection of his stories was published by Mason Brothers in New York City"--Foreword.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Publisher's pictorial light brown cloth stamped in black, orange, and cream on cover with an Indian woman and child riding on the back of a golden eagle flying through clouds; decorative geometric border; titles on cover ad spine stamped in Japan gold; cloud wraps to spine with same border at head and tail; woman and child repeated within small circle on spine. Signed with initials "G.H." by designer George W. Hood. Penn State copy issued without illustrated lining-papers.
- HSP Copy: Montgomery, Scott, and Wheeler families papers [4470]
- HSP Copy: Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collection
- Cited in:
- Minsky, R. American trade bindings with Native American themes 1875-1933, page 61
- Other Format:
- Online version: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. Indian fairy book.
- OCLC:
- 2632089
- Online:
- Additional information and access via Open Library
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