At the font of the marvelous [electronic resource] : exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / Anthony Wonderley.

By: Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Iroquois and their neighborsPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxi, 188 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780815651376 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Iroquois Indians -- Folklore | Algonquian Indians -- Folklore | Indian mythology -- New York (State) | Indian mythology -- Ontario | Oral history -- New York (State) | Oral history -- Ontario | Folklore -- New York (State) | Folklore -- Ontario | New York (State) -- Social life and customs | Ontario -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 398.2089/9755 LOC classification: E99.I7 | W84 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : oral narrative of the Iroquois and their neighbors -- Iroquois star lore : what does it mean? -- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-181) and index.

Introduction : oral narrative of the Iroquois and their neighbors -- Iroquois star lore : what does it mean? -- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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