How the people sang the mountains up
Subtitle: how and why stories
By: Illustrated by Glen Rounds
Contributors: Rounds, Glen, 1906-2002, ill
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Legends
Notes: "Notes and bibliography": p. 141-159.
Table of contents: title: Earth, sky and sea. What makes moonshine on water (Mexico); title: Who? (Yuchi-Creek); title: How the Earth was made to fit the sky (Bugun); title: How the sun was made (Euahlayi); title: Why the sun and moon live in the sky (Efik); title: How the Earth's fire was saved (Tinguian); title: How the people sang the mountains up (Jicarilla Apache); title: Why the tides ebb and flow (Tahltan, Malay); title: Why the sea is salt (Old Norse); title: Who the man in the moon is. The old man and his bush (Altai Tatar) ; The old humpback (Malay) ; Frogs in the moon (Lillooet) ; Hjuki and Bil (Old Norse) ; The moon's face (Masai).; title: Man. How the people began (Greenland Eskimo); title: Chameleon finds; title: (Yao); title: Creator makes; title: (Yokuts); title: The lizard-hand (Yokuts); title: How wisdom came to man (Ashanti); title: How Rabbit stole fire from the buzzards (Catawba); title: How the people got fire (Cherokee); title: How man learned to make fire (Toba); title: How mankind learned to make bread (Kabyle).; title: Animals. Why the animals have no fire (Coeur d'Alene of Idaho); title: How baboons came into the world (Zulu); title: Why God made the dogs (Rumania); title: Why people keep dogs (Yao); title: Dog's hoop (Lipan Apache); title: How people got the first cat (Ch'uan Miao); title: Why Cat eats first (South Carolina Negro); title: How the first horse was made (Kond); title: Why Goat cannot climb a tree (Haitian Creole); title: Why Sheep does not come in out of the rain (North Carolina Negro); title: Why Rabbit has a short tale (Baganda-Alabama Negro); title: How Bat won the ball game (Creek); title: Why Bat flies alone (Modoc); title: Why Bear sleeps all winter (North Carolina Negro); title: How chipmunk got his stripes (Iroquois); title: Why Lion lives in the forest (Yao); title: How Tiger learned to hunt (Popoluca); title: How Whale happens to smoke a pipe (Passamaquoddy); title: Why Elephant and Whale live where they do (Bahama Negro); title: Why Spider has a little head and a big behind (Akan-Ashanti); title: How Spider got his threat (Wishosk or Wiyot); title: Why Porpoise is not a fish (Polynesia); title: Why Dog gnaws a bone (Tuscany).; title: Birds. Why the birds are different colors (North Carolina Negro); title: Why Chicken lives with man (Mpongwe); title: How Rooster got his comb (Ch'uan Miao); title: Why Rooster is so neat (United States); title: Why Robin has a red breast (Congo); title: How Kingfisher got his necklace (Chippewa); title: How Loon learned his call (Passamaquoddy); title: Owl (Gloucestershire); title: Why Wagtail wags her tail (Rumania); title: Why Crow has a right to first corn (Iroquois); title: How Crane got his long beak (Gumaitj); title: Why Peacock looks at his tale (Devonshire).; title: Insects, reptiles, and fish. Why the flea jumps (Tuscany); title: Why ants live everywhere (Burma); title: Why ants carry large bundles (Ashanti); title: Why Fly rubs his hands together (Luiseño); title: Why Grasshopper spits tobacco juice (Penobscot); title: Why Crocodile does not eat Hen (Fjort); title: How Rattlesnake got his fangs (Luiseño); title: How tadpoles lost their tails (North Carolina Negro); title: Why frogs croak in wet weather (Korea); title: How Turtle keeps from getting wet (Natchez); title: Why Flounder's two eyes are on the same side of his face (Polynesia); title: Why Jellyfish has no shell (Japan); title: Why Crab's eyes stick out (Fjort).; title: Plants. Why some trees are evergreen (Cherokee); title: How the coconut tree was saved (Apayao); title: How Bean got his stripe (Europe); title: How yams got their eyes (Easter Island).; title: Constellations. The Great Bear (Micmac); title: Why people watch the dipper (Tahltan); title: Pleiades (Cherokee); title: Udleqdjun in the sky (Central Eskimo).