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Author Bierhorst, John.

Title Four masterworks of American Indian literature. / Edited, and with commentaries and new translations, by John Bierhorst. -

Publication Info. [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1974]

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 Moore Stacks  PM197.E3 B48    Available  ---
Description xxiv, 371 pages: illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographies.
Contents Quetzalcoatl, translated from the Nahuatl by J. Bierhorst.--The ritual of condolence, with ritual texts translated from the Mohawk Iroquois by H. Hale and from the Onondaga Iroquois by J. N. B. Hewitt; with supplementary texts translated by W. N. Fenton; and with descriptions of ritual procedure paraphrased by J. Bierhorst after Hale, Fenton, Hewitt, and others.--Cuceb, translated from the Maya by R. L. Roys, rev. by J. Bierhorst.--The night chant, with songs and prayers translated from the Navajo by W. Matthews, and with descriptions of ritual procedure condensed from Matthews by J. Bierhorst.
Subject Indian poetry -- Translations into English.
Indian poetry.
American poetry.
American poetry.
ISBN 0374157928