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Part I: Preludes -- What the informant said to Franz Boas in 1920 (Keresan) -- Thank you: a poem in seventeen parts (Seneca) -- The artist (Aztec) -- Song of the bald eagle (Crow) -- Part II: Shaking the pumpkin (Seneca) -- Part III: A first service -- Magic words and more more more magic words (Eskimo) -- Magic words -- Magic words to feel better -- Magic words for hunting caribou -- Magic words for hunting seal -- Moon eclipse exorcism (Alsea) -- Poem to ease birth (Aztec) -- Crow versions -- A poem for catching turtles (Tule/Cuna) -- Archaic song of Dr. Tom the shaman (Nootka) -- Magic words from Run Toward the nightland (Cherokee) -- The killer (Cherokee) -- The archer's dance song (Maya) -- Snake medicine poem for a toothache (Yokuts) -- A song from Red ant way (Navajo) -- The deadly dance (Aztec) -- Part IV: A book of narratives (I) -- A myth of the human universe (Maya) -- From the Popol Vuh: the destruction of the dolls (Maya) -- From the Popol Vuh: Alligator's struggles with the 400 sons (Maya) -- The origin of the Skagit Indians according to Lucy Williams -- The creation of the world according to Charles Slater (Cuna) -- The sorcerer (Okanagan) -- Coon cons coyote, coyote eats coon, coyote fights shit-men, gets immured in a rock-house, eats his eyes, eats his balls, gets out, cons bird-boy for eyes, loses them to the birds & gets them back (Nez Percé) -- Coyote borrows farting boy's asshole, tosses up his eyes, retrieves them, rapes old women, & tricks a young girl seeking power (Nez Percé) -- The flight of quetzalcoatl (Aztec) -- Part V: A book of narratives (II) -- The boy and the deer (Zuni) -- Part VI: A second service -- Wolf songs and others of the Tlingit -- Eskimo songs about people & animals -- Travel song -- Song of the old woman -- Spring fjord -- The old man's song, about his wife -- Dream -- A man's song, about his daughter -- A woman's song, about men -- Lullaby (Tsimshian) -- Tsimshian mourning song -- Two divorce songs (Tsimshian) -- Insult before gift-giving (Tsimshian) -- Spyglass conversations (Tule/Cuna) -- Navajo animal songs -- More Eskimo songs about people & animals -- Orpingalik's song: in a time of sickness (Eskimo) -- Part VII: A book of events (I) -- Dream event 1 (Iroquois) -- Dream event II (Iroquois) -- A masked event for comedian & audience (Lummi) -- Butterfly song event (Maricopa) -- Autumn events (Eskimo) -- Tamale event (Aztec) -- Mud events (Navajo) -- Dakota dance events -- Gift event II (Kwakiutl) -- Gift event IV (Winnebago) -- Language event I (Eskimo) -- Language event II (Navajo) -- Picture event (Navajo) -- Naming events (Papago) -- Pebble event (Omaha) -- Crazy dog events (Crow) -- Animal spirit event (Lummi) -- Vision event I (Eskimo) -- Vision Event II (Eskimo) -- Vision event III (Sioux) -- |
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