Folk literature of the Yamana indians
Subtitle: Martin Gusinde's collection of Yamana narratives
By: (translated from the German) ; Johannes Wilbert editor.
Contributors: Wilbert, Johannes.
Series: Latin American studies series -- vol.40
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Berkeley; London
Language: eng; ger; sai
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Yahgau Indians -- Religion and mythology.
Work titles: Die Feuerland-Indianer.
Description: The sixty-six narratives of this volume represent the treasure of folk literature of the Yamana Indians of Tierra del Fuego. The narratives were collected by Father Martin Gusinde in the 1920s and published in his classical study Die Feuerland-Indianer. The Yamana are now extinct. Folk literature of the Yamana Indians preserves the rich oral art, otherwise irrecoverably lost, of one of the most ancient aboriginal peoples of America.
Notes: Translations selected from 'Die Feuerland-Indianer'. Wien-Modling , 'Anthropos', 1931-1974.

Bibliography, p.306-308.