Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Bulletin of the United States National Museum
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Material Culture of the People of Southeastern Panama
Author: Herbert William KriegerPublisher:
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Southeastern Panama is historically the oldest region of continental America. The object of this handbook is to catalogue and describe the several ethnological collections from this region now in the United States National Museum.
The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature
Author: Abraham ReesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
A Turkish and English Lexicon
Author: Sir James William RedhousePublisher:
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Category : Turkish language
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Rattlebone
Author: Maxine ClairPublisher: Agate Digital
ISBN: 1572844833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Interconnected tales set in a black Kansas City community. “Strong, melodic, and honest . . . We need stories like these to replenish us.” —Terry McMillan In Rattlebone, a “fictional” black community north of Kansas City, the smell of manure and bacon from Armour’s Packing House is everywhere; Shady Maurice’s roadhouse plays the latest jazz; the best eggs are sold by the Red Quanders; and gospel rules at the Strangers Rest Baptist Church. This is the black Midwest of the 1950s, when towns could count their white folks on one hand—the years before the Civil Rights movement came along and changed everything. In perfectly cadenced vernacular, Maxine Clair speaks to us through the voices of Rattlebone’s citizens: October Brown, the new schoolteacher with a camel’s walk and shoulder-padded, to-the-nines dresses; Irene Wilson, naive and wise, who must grapple with her parent’s failing marriage as she steps eagerly into adulthood; and Thomas Pemberton, owner of the local rooming house, an old man with a young heart. Sparkling with lyricism, Clair’s interconnected stories celebrate the natural beauty of the Midwest and the dignity and vitality of these most ordinary lives. Rattlebone, winner of the Heartland Prize for fiction, is a tremendous work by a supremely talented writer. “Extraordinary . . . Each skillful plot twist, each new wonderful character has the effect of a sip of literary love potion.” —The New York Times Book Review “Told in a style that is memorable for its ability to shift tones and to capture, in rich and controlled language, new levels of consciousness.” —The Washington Post
The American Universal Geography, Or, A View of the Present State of All the Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the Known World
Author: Jedidiah MorsePublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
The Sun Came Down
Author: Percy BullchildPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803262508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
At the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915?1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertaking?to ?write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends,? as he puts it?as both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of historical legends from his memory of the oral history as it was passed down to him by his elders and by seeking out the oral traditions of other tribes. These stories, like all legends, Bullchild reminds us, ?may sound a little foolish, but they are very true. And they have much influence over all of the people of this world, even now as we all live.? Woody Kipp provides a preface for this Bison Books edition.
Author: James W. Redhouse