Yuchi Tales (American Ethnological Society Publications No 13) (English and North American Indian Languages Edition)

New York, NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1974. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; pages 75-82 have some damage in the lower corner (small tears and creasing, does not affect readability); lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Very rare and hard-to-find title! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 357 informative and historical pages! Extremely scarce! Text is in Yuchi and English. "The material which is contained in this volume is the result of several field trips to the Yuchi Indians of Central Oklahoma which were undertaken in the summer of 1928 and in the winter of 1929, covering in all a period of about five months. Both trips were financed by the fund for linguistic research of the Council of Learned Societies at the recommendation of Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University, New York City. I am deeply indebted to Professor Boas for many useful suggestions regarding the methods of field work as well as the following work of text analysis. By far the greatest part of the tales was told by Maxey Simms of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, whose rather detailed autobiography is added to the texts. The other tales were obtained from George Clinton, Sally Clinton, and their daughter Ida Clinton of Bristow, Oklahoma, and by Andy Johnson of Sapulpa. They were translated partly by Maxey Simms and partly by Mrs. Ella Townsend of Bristow, Oklahoma, both of whom furnished also most of the grammatical and vocabular information. Purely grammatical information, which, however, was essential for the understanding of the tales (and therefore may be mentioned here) was obtained from a Yuchi halfblood, Mr. Gregory of Edmond Oklahoma......" ---- from the Preface.