The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803281936ISBN-10:803281935UPC:9780803281936Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Folklore & MythologySize:7.99 x 5.35 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCGW6DXG57
The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders "after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim light of a flickering fire. They constitute the religious history of the tribe, and from time immemorial have been handed down by word of mouth," writes C. Hart Merriam. Included are creation myths and accounts of the First People, beings who antedated humans, as well as tales about animals, death and ghosts, witches and giants, and natural phenomena.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803281936ISBN-10:803281935UPC:9780803281936Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Folklore & MythologySize:7.99 x 5.35 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCGW6DXG57
A professor of anthropology at California State University, Hayward, Lowell J. Bean is director of the C. F. Smith Museum of Anthropology. He is the author of Mukat's People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California (1972).
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