Walapai (Hualapai) Texts

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ISBN: 9783110163353 | 3110163357
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/1998

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Walapai (Hualapai), a language of the Yuman group (Hokan stock), is spoken in northern Arizona. The volume contains texts of various genres - mythical tales, stories from everyday life, oral histories - which were collected by the author in the late '50s and early '60s. The texts are presented in a morphologically analyzed form and are provided with full translations.

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Preface	p. 3
References	p. 5
List of abbreviations	p. 6
Tales of a mythical past
The origin of the tribes	p. 7
Coyote and his daughter	p. 30
Coyote and his daughter	p. 39
Wolf and Coyote hunting	p. 56
Coyote cooks bean mush	p. 73
Wolf's Son	p. 77
Fox and Cottontail (Giant Bird)	p. 106
The bear and his two wives	p. 117
Bear's instructions for the sweat lodge	p. 123
The children and the woman turned into stone	p. 125
Tales and songs of human life
Yellow Land - a song	p. 134
Song of a woman - Married in a strange place	p. 135
Song of the Supai woman	p. 138
A man wants another wife	p. 140
Trouble with mother-in-law	p. 143
The torn coyote shawl	p. 149
The reluctant suitor	p. 152
Lullaby	p. 155
Oral histories
The early years of the life of Tim McGee	p. 157
Tim McGee's life - long version	p. 166
The life of Kate Crozier, as told by himself	p. 182
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