Indian Tales from Picuris Pueblo [SOLD]

Picuris Pueblo Indian Rosendo Vargas told these 21 tales and 7 folkways accounts of birth, death, hunting, and other customs and sang the 11 songs to linguist John Peabody Harrington around 1918. Harrington translated them from the Northern Tiwa dialect and ethnomusicologist Helen H. Roberts provided musical transcriptions (included here) for a 1928 publication of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. Characters in these engrossing, English-language stories include Giants, Elf, Fish Maiden, Morning Star, Corn Maidens, Shell Hat, Butterflies, Magpietail Boy, Old Coyote, Dove Maidens, Fawns, Big Nostril, Snakes, and others. Older children and adults will enjoy the authentic narratives, songs, and information on the pueblo