NORTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY: Volume X of The Mythology of All Races series edited by Louis Herbert Gray
by Alexander, Hartley B
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Small quarto (9 1/4 X 6 1/4 inches) Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 1937. Second Printing. 325 pages, 33 full page illustrations (many in color) plus several illustrations in the text, red hardcover cloth stamped in gilt with title and author on the spine, plus Notes, and Bibliography.
Among the chapters covering regions of "The Far North," "The Forest Tribes," "The Gulf Region," "The Great Plains," "Mountain and Desert," "The Pueblo Dwellers," and the Pacific Coast," are sections that include studies on "The Eskimo World," "Sun-Worship," "Animal Stories," "Migration Legends," "Prophets and the Ghost-Dance," "The Navajo and their Gods," "Gods and Katcinas," "The California-Oregon Tribes," "Secret Societies . . . .," and "The Raven Cycle."
Very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Caravan Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 845
- Title
- NORTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY
- Author
- Alexander, Hartley B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Archaeological Institute of America
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native American; Folk Tales; Anthropology;
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