Download or read book Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Boas (1858-1942), geographer, linguist, physical anthropologist and ethnologist, is considered the father of modern North American anthropology. The 1895 German publication of this book gathered together in a single volume his earliest research in British Columbia and now, for the first time, is made available in English. Extensively annotated and footnoted, Claude Levi-Strauss describes it as one of the richest collections of mythological text available.