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Myths and tales from the San Carlos ApacheBook 1918 • Goddard, Pliny Earle
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book consists of literary translations of San Carlo Apache mythological tales. The myths include the creation of the earth, the birth of the culture hero and his ridding the world of monsters, and myths explaining the origins of certain ceremoni...Myths and tales from the White Mountain ApacheBook 1919 • Goddard, Pliny Earle
Western Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is the work of an anthropological linguist who had a working knowledge of Athabaskan. It contains free translations of White Mountain Apache mythic tales, including the Creation Myth, taken from several informants with the aid of an interpreter....Gotalessay 1909 • Goddard, Pliny Earle
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article contains an incomplete description of a Mescalero puberty ceremony and the translations of some of the songs accompanying that ceremony. The data were collected in 1906 from an informant described as the 'last priest of the chief rites o...