Folktales Of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1917. First Edition. Octavo, xii, 205 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes, collected by James Alexander Teit, Livingston Farrand, Marian K. Gould, and Herbert Joseph Spinden and edited by Franz Boas, issued as Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. 11, is an important 1917 contribution to Native American folklore, anthropology, and Indigenous oral tradition. Published by the American Folk-Lore Society, the volume gathers traditional narratives from a range of Salishan and Sahaptin-speaking peoples, preserving a substantial body of oral literature that has long been significant to the study of myth, storytelling, belief, and cultural tradition in the Northwest. Both a valuable primary source for the study of Indigenous narrative and cultural history, and an important document in the history of early twentieth-century anthropology, it remains of lasting interest to collectors of folklore, Native American studies, linguistics, and Americana.
Provenance: from the library of Anthony Seeger, distinguished anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, with his bookplate. Hinges cracked, front free endpaper detached, previous owner, Anthony Seeger's bookplate is attached upside down to the interior of the rear board, rubbing and wear, else in good + condition. Item #248
Price: $200.00