Navaho folk tales / by Franc Johnson Newcomb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newcomb, Franc Johnson.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo Indians--Folklore.

Navajo Indians.

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Folklore.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Flanagan, John T. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 203 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Santa Fé, N.M.] : Museum of Navaho Ceremonial Art, [1967]

Summary:

Seventeen tales telling the legendary history of the Navajo Indian people.

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

First three worlds

Fourth world

Flood

Turkey and the big reed

Through the sky: locust wins this earth

Monsters and the Glebes

Small duck and the mountains

Sun, moon and starts

Fire mountain, the bat and the hosteen owl

Homes for coyote and badger

Snail brings pure water

Coyote brings fire

Frog creates rain

Seeds for the fifth world

Hunter boy and the rabbits

Hunter boy and the deer

Homes for the Dine'é.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has a few ms. marginal marks and notes in pencil in text.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("John T. Flanagan") on front free endpaper.

OCLC:

469085