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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785630203321

Titolo

Walapai (Hualapai) texts / / editor, Werner Winter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1998

ISBN

3-11-080806-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages)

Collana

Native American texts series ; ; 2

Classificazione

EE 4538

Altri autori (Persone)

WinterWerner <1923-2010.>

Disciplina

497/.57

Soggetti

Hualapai language

Hualapai Indians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 5).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- References -- List of abbreviations -- Tales of a mythical past -- The origin of the tribes / McGee, Cap -- Coyote and his daughter / McGee, Tim -- Coyote and his daughter / Tomanada, Edna -- Wolf and Coyote hunting / Tomanada, Edna -- Coyote cooks bean mush / Tomanada, Edna -- Wolf's Son / Tomanada, Edna -- Fox and Cottontail / McGee, Tim -- The bear and his two wives / McGee, Tim -- Bear's instructions for the sweat lodge / McGee, Tim -- The children and the woman turned into stone / McGee, Tim -- Tales and songs of human life -- Yellow Land - a song / McGee, Tim -- Song of a woman - Married in a strange place / MeGee, Tim -- Song of the Supai woman / McGee, Tim -- A man wants another wife / McGee, Tim -- Trouble with mother-in-law / McGee, Tim -- The torn coyote shawl / McGee, Tim -- The reluctant suitor / McGee, Cap -- Lullaby / McGee, Tim -- Oral histories -- The early years of the life of Tim McGee / McGee, Tim -- Tim McGee's life - long version / McGee, Tim -- The life of Kate Crozier, as told by himself