Guide leaflet (1901) (14581968759)

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Title: Guide leaflet

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history

Publisher: New York : The Museum

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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STAR LEGENDS Among theAmerican Indians ByCLARK WISSLER Curator of Anthropology The American Museum of Natural History Guide Leaflet Series No. 91NEW YORK, N. Y. 1936Second Printing, 1937Third Printing, 1937Fourth Printing, 1940 k \ I CONTENTS Introduction , __ 5 Foreword _ _ - 6 The Sun and the Moon _ _ „ 7 The Creation of the Earth _ _ _ 7 The Six Brothers „ _ 8 The Seven Brothers- 9 Other Star Myths _ _ 11 The Fixed Star„ _..„ „ _ 11 Blood-Clot, or Smoking-Star _ 13 Scar-Face _ „ _ „ 17 The Twin Brothers „ 20 INTRODUCTION IT HAS been said that man first began to study the things farthest awayfrom him and so astronomy is the oldest science and psychology themost recent. Perhaps the heavenly bodies were by far the greatestmysteries and appealed to primitive man as the most desirable forms ofexistence; anyway, in many lands and ages the dead are believed to becomestars. Our Indians gave a great deal of attention to the heavens as revealedin the many beautiful stories to

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