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Oral Literature and Ethnography

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An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians — Walter E. RothWalter E. Roth's 1915 ethnographic survey of Guiana Indian animism, myth, and folklore — spirits of bush, mountain, water, and sky, tribal heroes, medicine-men, and taboo — prepared for the Bureau of American Ethnology.Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana — William Henry BrettWilliam Henry Brett's 1880 versified collection of Arawak, Warau, Carib, and Acawoio legends from British Guiana, the earliest written record of many of these traditions, told throughout in rhymed English verse.