New York: The Platt & Monk Co., Inc. , 1935 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/none. Royal Blue Boards with red Thunderbird and titles to front cover and red titles to spine. Fraying to edges and corners. Clean on inside pages, no tears. Map endpapers, "The Indians In This Book Lived In These Places". Map depicts the places where the following story characters lived: Whale Tooth, Cedar Bough , Raven, Little Turtle corn-Flower Buffalo Calf, Otter Tail , Flying Squirrel, Rides away Tinking. Sketches along the borders of every page, Numerous full page 8" by 10" color illustrations throughout. "Painted-Bowl, Litlle Turtle's mother, wove the most beautiful feather robes. She pulled the fuzzy part of the feather from the quill and wound it about yucca fiber strings. These strings she wove into soft light robes which were very warm. For a feather supply she kept wild turkeys in willow pens in part of the big cave. Baskets held her corn meal or flour. she ground the flour in a little open-topped box of plastered stones which held a large curved stone inside. On this she sprinkled kernels of corn and ground them by rubbing them with a smaller, flat stone." .

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Bookseller: Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000060
Title: The Book of Indians
Author: Holling Clancy, Holling Lucille
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Platt & Monk Co., Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1935
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Native Americans, Children’s stories, map, whale tooth, little turtle, corn flower, Buffalo calf, otter tale, flying squirrel, art, weaving,

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Calf: Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...