Song of the forest
Subtitle: Indian folktales
By: retold by Isabel Barclay.
Contributors: Barclay, Isabel.
Publisher: Oberon Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: [Ottawa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Description: "The eleven stories retold in this book by Isabel Barclay are all about birds and animals. One or two come from the Prairies and the Pacific Northwest; the rest belong to the people of the eastern woodlands. The illustrations have been taken from a seventeenth-century manuscript in the Public Archives of Canada know as 'Les raretes des Indes'. It is believed to be the work of a young Jesuit, Louis Nicolas, who recorded in these extraordinary and beautiful drawings his impressions of the strange animals who lived in the wilderness to which he had come."--abebooks.