A mythic tale of the Isleta Indians, New Mexico : the race of the antelope and the hawk around the horizon / by Albert S. Gatschet.

  • Albert Samuel Gatschet
Date:
1891
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Credit: A mythic tale of the Isleta Indians, New Mexico : the race of the antelope and the hawk around the horizon / by Albert S. Gatschet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WELLCOME LIBRARY O' ft 7 A MYTHIC TALE OF THE ISLETA INDIANS. By Albert S. Gatschet. (Read before the American Philosophical Society, December IS, 1891.) The study of the Indian languages of New Mexico has been neglected more than that of other sections of our wide territory and it is with much satisfaction that I present in print the first continuous text worded in one of them, that of Isleta Pueblo. It is a dialect of the Tewan, or, as it is called in J. W. Powell’s classification, the Tanoan family, with a transla¬ tion and with a paraphrasis, which is more comprehensible to the general 22501444461
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