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Winter-telling stories / Alice Marriott, illustrated by Roland Whitehorse.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E77 .I41
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marriott, Alice, 1910-1992, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saynday (Legendary character).
- Kiowa Indians--Folklore.
- Kiowa Indians.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Creation--Mythology.
- Creation.
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Great Plains.
- Genre:
- Folklore -- Great Plains -- Juvenile.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 84 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First printing
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Sloane Associates, [1947]
- Summary:
- "These are stories that the Kiowa Indian people believe and tell about how things got started and came to be. Saynday was the one, they say, who got lots of things in our world started and going."--Page 7.
- Contents:
- Who Saynday is and what he did
- The Saynday-does-good stories: How Saynday got the sun
- How Saynday brought the buffalo
- How the white crow turned black
- Why the deer have short teeth
- Why the ant is almost cut in two
- The Saynday-make-trouble stories: How Saynday got caught in a buffalo skull
- How Saynday ran a foot race with coyote
- How Saynday got caught in a tree
- How the bobcat got his spots
- How Saynday tried to marry the whirlwind
- Indian Saynday and white man Saynday.
- Local Notes:
- Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collection.
- OCLC:
- 6009786
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