Four masterworks of American Indian literature
By: edited, and with commentaries and new translations, by John Bierhorst
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Indian poetry -- Translations into English; American poetry -- Translations from Indian languages
Other titles: Quetzalcoatl; The ritual of condolence; Cuceb; The nigh chant
Notes: Bibliogr.

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Table of contents: title: Quetzalcoalt / translated from the Nahualt by J. Bierhorst.; title: The ritual of condolence / with ritual texts translated from the Mohawk Iroquois by H. Hale and from the Onondaga Iroquois by J.N.B., Hewitt ; with supplementary texts translated by W.N. Fenton ; and with descriptions of ritual procedure paraphrased by J. Bierhorst after Hale, Fenton, Hewitt, and others.; title: Cuceb / translated from the Maya by R.L. Roys, revised by J. Bierhorst.; title: The night chant with songs and prayers / translated from the Navajo by W. Matthews, and with descriptions of ritual procedure condensed from Matthews by J. Bierhorst.