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Indian tales for little folks / by W.S. Phillips (El Comancho) illustrated with eleven full page colored plates, reproduced from water color paintings by the author and further embellished with several hundred little Indian drawings, with explanatory key list so little folks can understand them.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, W. S. (Walter Shelley), 1867-1940, author.
- Series:
- Indigenous Peoples of North America.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Children's stories.
- Genre:
- Children's stories -- 1928.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Platt & Munk Company, Inc.
- Contents:
- How the buffalo and the grizzly bear went to war
- Why the catfish has a flat head
- How the buzzard got his black coat
- The quarrel between the beaver and the porcupine
- How the fire got into the rocks and the trees
- Why the wood duck has red eyes
- How Napi made the animals
- Why the bluebird is blue and the coyote is gray
- Where the yellowjackets came from
- The story of the little rabbit and the lynx
- Explanatory keys to the Indian drawings.
- Notes:
- Title page printed in red and black.
- "Every story in this book is a genuine Indian story, told in English as nearly as possible as the Indian would tell it. The marginal illustrations are copies of actual Indian drawings from many sources. The large pictures are mine"--Introduction.
- Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
- OCLC:
- 899258842
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