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The hat-shaking dance, and other tales from the Gold Coast / by Harold Courlander ; with Albert Kofi Prempeh ; illustrated by Enrico Arno.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Z 675 .P3 K53 no.42
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ashanti (African people)--Folklore.
- Ashanti (African people).
- Folklore--Africa.
- Folklore.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1957]
- Summary:
- Twenty-one illustrated tales from the Ashanti.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Ashanti, from whom these stories come
- All stories are Anansi's : how Anansi got them
- Anansi, the oldest of animals : how Anansi proved it
- Anansi's hat-shaking dance : how Anansi got his bald head, and why he hides in the tall grass
- Two feasts for Anansi : why Anansi is very thin in the middle
- Anansi plays dead : why Anansi hides in dark corners
- The liar's contest : why Anansi eats flies, moths, and mosquitoes
- Why wisdom is found everywhere : and why some people don't have it
- Osebo's drum : why the turtle has a hard cover, and why the leopard has spots
- Anansi and the elephant go hunting : why the elephant is large in front and small behind, and why he lives in the tall grass country
- The planting party : why enemies shouldn't be invited to a planting bee, and why the praying mantis has a thin belly
- Okraman's medicine : why the dog steals meat
- Anansi borrows money : why the dying snake turns his belly to the sky
- Anansi's rescue from the river : why the moon is in the sky
- Anansi and the elephant exchange knocks : why there are elephants everywhere
- How the lizard lost and regained his farm : why the lizard moves his head up and down, and why the spider endlessly spins his web and catches flies
- Anansi steals the palm wine : how debt first came to Ashanti
- The elephant's tail : why the hawk hovers over a fire
- The porcupine's hoe : and why there are many hoes in Ashanti
- The sword that fought by itself : why the tinni plant cuts anyone who touches it
- Nyame's well : why the frog has no tail
- The coming of the yams : why sons don't inherit from their fathers in Ashanti
- Notes on the stories.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Pedagogical Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996. Hat-shaking dance, and other tales from the Gold Coast.
- OCLC:
- 993153061
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