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The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends

by Theodora Kroeber

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Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves.

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Theodora Kroeber

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DDC/MDS: 398.2 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature
LCC: E98 .F6 .K82 — History of the United States America Indians of North America
BISAC: SOC SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology
NAT NATURE Animals General
HIS HISTORY Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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Published: 1963
DDC/MDS: 398.2
LCC: E98 .F6 .K82

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