Traditions of the Osage [[electronic resource] ] : stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche / / edited and introduced by Garrick Bailey

• Pubblicazione: Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 398.0897/5254
• Soggetto topico: Osage Indians; Osage Indians - Rites and ceremonies
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: La FlescheFrancis <1857-1932.> BaileyGarrick Alan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.
• Sommario/riassunto: Sacred teachings, folk stories, and animal stories collected in their original language, Osage, between 1910 and 1923.
• Titolo autorizzato: Traditions of the Osage
• ISBN: 1-283-63716-2; 0-8263-4852-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457306403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II