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catalog contributor b1582106.
catalog contributor b1582107.
catalog contributor b1582108.
catalog contributor b1582109.
catalog created "1952.".
catalog date "1952".
catalog date "1952.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1952.".
catalog description "How Contradiction Came to the Ashanti/ Ashanti -- How It Came About That One Person Does Not Reveal the Origin from Which Another Person Comes/ Ashanti -- Why a Girl Should Marry Him to Whome Is Given in Marriage/ Ashanti -- How It Came That Children Were First Whipped/ Ashanti -- Why It Is That the Elders Say We Should Not Repeat Sleeping-Mat Confidences/ Ashanti -- Why You Should Let Your Kinsman Accompany You When He Asks to Go Along/ Ashanti -- If Someone Does Good to You, You Should Do Good in Return/ Ashanti -- Untombinde, the Tall Maiden/ Zulu -- IV. Man and His Fate -- The Wonder-Worker of the Plains/ Baronga -- The Enchanted Guinea-Fowl/ Lango -- The Adventures of Mrile/ Chaga -- The Handsome Ogre-Girl of the Pool/ Akamba -- The Town Where None Might Go to Sleep/ Hausa -- The City Where Men Are Mended/ Hausa -- M'wambia and the N'jenge/ Akikuyu -- The Child and the Eagle/ Baila -- The Fat Woman Who Melted Away/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Cherry-Pickers/ Lango -- ".
catalog description "How Honey-Guide Came to Have Authority over Honey/ Baila -- The Bird That Made Milk/ Xosa -- The Man and the Snake/ Nuer -- How Elephant Married a Nama Woman and Was Deceived by Her/ Nama -- How Kwaku Ananse Got Aso in Marriage/ Ashanti -- III. The Realm of Man -- The Young Man Who Was Carried Off by a Lion/ Bushmen -- How a Hunter Obtained Money from His Friend the Leopard, the Goat, the Bush Cat, and the Cock, and How He Got Out of Repaying Them/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Little Wise Woman/ Hottentot -- Zimwa-mbanje the Hemp Smoker/ Mashona -- Konyek and His Father/ Masai -- The Lost Sister/ Akikuyu -- The Woman and the Children of the Sycamore Tree/ Masai -- The Girl Who Stayed in the Fork of a Tree/ Bena Mukuni -- How an Unborn Child Avenged Its Mother's Death/ Bena Mukuni -- The Woman Who Killed Her Co-Wife/ Bena Mukuni -- The Slave Girl Who Tried to Kill Her Mistress/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Smart Man and the Fool/ Bakongo -- The Greed of the Old Man and His Wife/ Masai -- ".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog description "Introduction/ Paul Radin -- Prologue/ Ekoi -- I. The Universe and Its Beginnings -- How Spider Obtained the Sky-God's Stories/ Ashanti -- The Separation of God from Man/ Krachi -- The Creator Nyame and His Four Wives/ Krachi -- How Abosom, the Lesser Gods, Came into the World/ Ashanti -- Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Sun and the Children/ Bushmen -- The Brothers, Sun and Moon, and the Pretty Girl/ Akamba -- The Son of the Wind/ Bushmen -- How the Stars Came/ Ekoi -- How the First Rain Came/Ekoi -- The Origin of Death/Krachi -- The Origin of Death/Akamba -- The Origin of Death/Hottentot -- How Diseases Came to the Ashanti/ Ashanti -- How the Mason-Wasp Fetched Fire from God/ Baila -- How Kintu Was Tested before He Could Marry the Daughter of the King of Heaven/ Baganda -- The Son of Kimanaueze and the Daughter of Sun and Moon/ Ambundu -- The Blue-Jay Who Married the Daughter of God/ Baila -- Mantis Creates an Eland/ Bushmen -- ".
catalog description "Ngomba's Basket/ Bakongo -- The Beautiful Girl Who Hand No Teeth/ Bavenda -- The Girl Who Was Sacrificed by Her Kin and Whom Her Lover Brought Back from Below/ Akikuyu -- The Wicked Girl and Her Punishment/ Hausa -- The Old Woman Who Stole Milk/ Zulu -- The Wife Who Ate the Wrong Porridge/ Bena Mukuni -- The Twin Brothers/ Bakongo -- Kenkebe/ Xosa -- The Giant of the Great Water/ Akikuyu -- A Woman for a Hundred Cattle/ Swahili -- Epilogue/ Baila -- Sources of the Folktales -- Glossary -- African Negro Sculpture -- Introduction/ James Johnson Sweeney -- Plates -- Catalogue of Plates.".
catalog description "Why the Chief of the Smiths Was Unable to Create Human Beings/ Baganda -- How Spider Read the Sky-God's Thoughts/ Ashanti -- II. The Animal and His World -- Mantis and the All-Devourer/ Bushmen -- The Fox and the Wolf/ Herero -- The Elephant and the Tortoise/ Hottentot -- The Frog and Umdhlubu/ Zulu -- The Caterpillar and the Wild Animals/ Masai -- The Gazell and the Leopard/ Bakongo -- The Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Hare, the Hyena, and the Lioness's Cave/ Masai -- Nwashisisana, the Hare -- Master Rabbit and the Berries/ Thonga -- How It Came About That We Shall Always See Okra the Cat Lying on a Velvet Cushion, While Okraman the Dog Sleeps Among the Ashes of the Kitchen Fire/ Ashanti -- How It Came About That the Hinder Part of Kwaku Ananse the Spider Became Big, at the Expense of His Head, Which Is Small/ Ashanti -- Why There Are Cracks in Tortoise's Shell/ Baila -- Why Some Animals Became Domesticated/ Suk -- ".
catalog extent "xxi, 355 p.:".
catalog hasFormat "African folktales & sculpture.".
catalog isFormatOf "African folktales & sculpture.".
catalog isPartOf "Bollingen series ; 32".
catalog issued "1952".
catalog issued "1952.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
catalog relation "African folktales & sculpture.".
catalog spatial "Africa.".
catalog subject "398.2".
catalog subject "GR350 .A35 1952".
catalog subject "GR350 .A35".
catalog subject "Sculpture, African.".
catalog subject "Tales Africa.".
catalog tableOfContents "How Contradiction Came to the Ashanti/ Ashanti -- How It Came About That One Person Does Not Reveal the Origin from Which Another Person Comes/ Ashanti -- Why a Girl Should Marry Him to Whome Is Given in Marriage/ Ashanti -- How It Came That Children Were First Whipped/ Ashanti -- Why It Is That the Elders Say We Should Not Repeat Sleeping-Mat Confidences/ Ashanti -- Why You Should Let Your Kinsman Accompany You When He Asks to Go Along/ Ashanti -- If Someone Does Good to You, You Should Do Good in Return/ Ashanti -- Untombinde, the Tall Maiden/ Zulu -- IV. Man and His Fate -- The Wonder-Worker of the Plains/ Baronga -- The Enchanted Guinea-Fowl/ Lango -- The Adventures of Mrile/ Chaga -- The Handsome Ogre-Girl of the Pool/ Akamba -- The Town Where None Might Go to Sleep/ Hausa -- The City Where Men Are Mended/ Hausa -- M'wambia and the N'jenge/ Akikuyu -- The Child and the Eagle/ Baila -- The Fat Woman Who Melted Away/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Cherry-Pickers/ Lango -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "How Honey-Guide Came to Have Authority over Honey/ Baila -- The Bird That Made Milk/ Xosa -- The Man and the Snake/ Nuer -- How Elephant Married a Nama Woman and Was Deceived by Her/ Nama -- How Kwaku Ananse Got Aso in Marriage/ Ashanti -- III. The Realm of Man -- The Young Man Who Was Carried Off by a Lion/ Bushmen -- How a Hunter Obtained Money from His Friend the Leopard, the Goat, the Bush Cat, and the Cock, and How He Got Out of Repaying Them/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Little Wise Woman/ Hottentot -- Zimwa-mbanje the Hemp Smoker/ Mashona -- Konyek and His Father/ Masai -- The Lost Sister/ Akikuyu -- The Woman and the Children of the Sycamore Tree/ Masai -- The Girl Who Stayed in the Fork of a Tree/ Bena Mukuni -- How an Unborn Child Avenged Its Mother's Death/ Bena Mukuni -- The Woman Who Killed Her Co-Wife/ Bena Mukuni -- The Slave Girl Who Tried to Kill Her Mistress/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Smart Man and the Fool/ Bakongo -- The Greed of the Old Man and His Wife/ Masai -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction/ Paul Radin -- Prologue/ Ekoi -- I. The Universe and Its Beginnings -- How Spider Obtained the Sky-God's Stories/ Ashanti -- The Separation of God from Man/ Krachi -- The Creator Nyame and His Four Wives/ Krachi -- How Abosom, the Lesser Gods, Came into the World/ Ashanti -- Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Sun and the Children/ Bushmen -- The Brothers, Sun and Moon, and the Pretty Girl/ Akamba -- The Son of the Wind/ Bushmen -- How the Stars Came/ Ekoi -- How the First Rain Came/Ekoi -- The Origin of Death/Krachi -- The Origin of Death/Akamba -- The Origin of Death/Hottentot -- How Diseases Came to the Ashanti/ Ashanti -- How the Mason-Wasp Fetched Fire from God/ Baila -- How Kintu Was Tested before He Could Marry the Daughter of the King of Heaven/ Baganda -- The Son of Kimanaueze and the Daughter of Sun and Moon/ Ambundu -- The Blue-Jay Who Married the Daughter of God/ Baila -- Mantis Creates an Eland/ Bushmen -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Ngomba's Basket/ Bakongo -- The Beautiful Girl Who Hand No Teeth/ Bavenda -- The Girl Who Was Sacrificed by Her Kin and Whom Her Lover Brought Back from Below/ Akikuyu -- The Wicked Girl and Her Punishment/ Hausa -- The Old Woman Who Stole Milk/ Zulu -- The Wife Who Ate the Wrong Porridge/ Bena Mukuni -- The Twin Brothers/ Bakongo -- Kenkebe/ Xosa -- The Giant of the Great Water/ Akikuyu -- A Woman for a Hundred Cattle/ Swahili -- Epilogue/ Baila -- Sources of the Folktales -- Glossary -- African Negro Sculpture -- Introduction/ James Johnson Sweeney -- Plates -- Catalogue of Plates.".
catalog tableOfContents "Why the Chief of the Smiths Was Unable to Create Human Beings/ Baganda -- How Spider Read the Sky-God's Thoughts/ Ashanti -- II. The Animal and His World -- Mantis and the All-Devourer/ Bushmen -- The Fox and the Wolf/ Herero -- The Elephant and the Tortoise/ Hottentot -- The Frog and Umdhlubu/ Zulu -- The Caterpillar and the Wild Animals/ Masai -- The Gazell and the Leopard/ Bakongo -- The Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise/ Efik-Ibibio -- The Hare, the Hyena, and the Lioness's Cave/ Masai -- Nwashisisana, the Hare -- Master Rabbit and the Berries/ Thonga -- How It Came About That We Shall Always See Okra the Cat Lying on a Velvet Cushion, While Okraman the Dog Sleeps Among the Ashes of the Kitchen Fire/ Ashanti -- How It Came About That the Hinder Part of Kwaku Ananse the Spider Became Big, at the Expense of His Head, Which Is Small/ Ashanti -- Why There Are Cracks in Tortoise's Shell/ Baila -- Why Some Animals Became Domesticated/ Suk -- ".
catalog title "African folktales & sculpture / [Folktales selected and edited by Paul Radin, with the collaboration of Elinore Marvel. Introd. to the tales by Paul Radin. Sculpture selected with an introd. by James Johnson Sweeney.".
catalog type "text".