Indians and whites from different legs of first man

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Indians and whites from different legs of first man.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Distribution and differentiation of peoples. · Origin of various tribes. · view the constellation · filed as A1614.7

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

S. Am. Indian (Brazil) Oberg 108.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of white and colored races.

Filed beside it

Negroes as curse on Ham for laughing at Noah's nakedness Races dark-skinned from bathing after white men. All peoples bathe in the river, the white man first, then in turn, the Spaniard, the Indian, and the negro – each becoming darker because of the condition of the water Light and dark-skinned peoples made from light and dark coconuts Origin of tribes from choices made Negroes made from left-over scraps at creation Origin of light and dark skin color Black tribe because woman is put on fire Origin of white man

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