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1896 ❤️ AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS_MYTH_MAGIC_PACIFIC NW TOTEM POLE TALES_ c @ 0
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Title :
TOTEM TALES -Indian Stories, Indian Told- Gathered in the Pacific Northwest;
With a Glossary of Words, Customs, and History of the Indians.
author:
W.S. Philips
Published:
Star Publishing Co., Chicago
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1896 - 1st edition
apx size:
8 1/8" by 6"
with
326 pages
ILLUSTRATED WITH apx
170
PICTURES
[quick count] by the author
from the preface:
The stories contained in this little volume under the title of “Totem Tales” are the result of careful study and research among various tribes of Indians of the Northwestern Pacific Coast.
The Indian peculiarity of narration is kept as nearly as possible, consistent with an understandable translation from the native tongue into English.....They are a very superstitious people and have signs, charms, and incantations for everything. Magic plays an important part in every Indian's life....
Some of the stories contained in this volume were told to the author by the side of the campfire in the great forest of the far Northwest, others were obtained from “squaw men” who had married into the tribe and were familiar with the tales, others were gathered from men of long residence in the NW, who had heard them from the old Indian story-tellers, characters who are fast vanishing with civilization.....DEMONS..FAIRIES...GHOST STORIES. The legends account for....creation...the reason for the world being as it is today.
A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WITH NATIVE AMERICAN BLOOD!! -
THIS IS YOUR HISTORY from a first hand account from 121 years ago
Contents:
The Talking Pine / Song of the Waters / Dance of the Wind / Ka-ke-hete, the Chief of the Demons / Birth of Skamson / The Deeds of Yelth / Wee-nat-chee, the Rainbow / Cawk, the Beaver’s Daughter / Quaw-te-aht, the Changer / The Great Waters / The Crow Children / Kit-si-na-o, the Stone Mother / The Rain Song / Of Wah-wah-hoo, the Frog / Kloo-Kwallie, the Medicine Dance / About the River Falls / Tale of the Demons / Magic of the Evil Eye / Concerning a Hunter and a Bear / Doak-a-Batl, the Maker / Birth of the Sun / Spe-ow and the Spider / Ta-ko-mah, the Mountain / The Bear Mother / Yelth and the Butterfly / Klale Tah-mah-na-wis / Reading of the Totem Pole / Carving of the Medicine Rattle / Skamson, the Thunderer / The Sing-Gamble / Tah-mah-na-wis of S’doaks
Condition:
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very good for its age-
text and boards very secure, but the front cover is a little slack. Pages generally very clean -very few small spots and dirty ffep. 1 small rip that I saw -repaired with doc. tape. Gilt a bit faded. Tips and cover edges [mostly the top] lightly worn. Back cover has some discoloration.
9/10 for its age
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