Myths And Tales Of The Southeastern Indians
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1929. Hardcover. Olive-green cloth with gilt stamping on spine, 275 pp. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 88. A. H. Hooker center tex in pencil and inscribed and dated JMS Chesshir 3-4-1930 in pen on the first free endpaper.
During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in this volume he preserved more than three hundred tales of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians. Included are stores on the origin of corn and tobacco, the deeds of ancient native heroes, visits to the world of the dead, and encounters between people and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. Very good. Corners bumped and cover lightly scuffed. Area of white spotting to the back cover. Item #414
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