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Owl

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by Desmond Morris

Lenape see Native American Tribes

  Le Portel cave, France 16

  little owl 22, 27, 82, 118, 129–30, 129, 138, 138, 168

  Lucy (artist) 108

  Luttrell Psalter 40

  Magritte, René 131–3, 132

  Malaysia 96

  Manitoba 71–2

  Martins, Helen 136–7, 137

  Mas D’Azil 16

  Mass, Andrew 70–71, 71

  McCain, John 70–71, 71

  Medici, Giuliano de’ 119–20

  Menomini see Native American Tribes

  Michelangelo 119–21, 120

  Milne, A. A. 77, 88–9

  Minerva 27

  Minorca 58–9, 58

  misericord 169, 169

  mobbing 41, 118–19, 166–75, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172

  Mochica see Native American tribes

  Mohave see Native American tribes

  mola 102

  Mongolia 96

  Montenay, Georgette de 63, 64

  Morosophie (La Perrière) 62, 63–4

  Moscow 75

  Muurup 97

  Nagano Snowlets 75, 75

  Namibia 95, 142

  Native American tribes

  Apache 101

  Caddo 101

  Cajun 101

  Catawba 101

  Cherokee 36, 100

  Choctaw 101

  Creek 101

  Eskimo 105–8, 105, 106, 107; see also Kingwatsiak, Iyola and Ashevak, Kenojuak

  Fremont 32

  Hopi 101

  Kuna 101, 102–5; see also San Blas Archipelago

  Kwakiutl 100–1

  Lakota 100

  Lenape 100

  Menomini 101

  Mochica 33, 33

  Mohave 100–1

  Navajo 99–100

  Oglala 100

  Ojibway 101

  Pawnee 100

  Pima 99

  Seminole 101

  Sioux 100

  Tlingit 100

  Tsimshian 99

  Wounaan, 103, 103, 104

  Yakama 100

  Yupik 100

  Zuni 100

  Navajo see Native American tribes

  Nieu Bethesda 136–7, 136

  Nigeria 93

  Nightingale, Florence 82–6, 83, 84

  Nonsense Verse (Lear) 86–8, 87, 135

  northern spotted owl 142

  Norwich Cathedral 169, 169

  Obama, Barack 70–71, 71

  obstinate owl 45–8

  Oglala see Native American tribes

  Ojibway see Native American tribes

  Orphne 26–7

  Owl and the Eagle, The (Lear) 79–80

  Owl and the Pussycat, The (Lear) 86–7, 87, 134–5

  owl as a vehicle 9, 48–51, 49, 59

  Owl House (Martins) 136, 136–7

  ‘Owl, Skull and Candle’ (anon. painting) 43

  Panama 101, 102–3

  Panchatantra (Fables of Bidpai) 78, 89

  Parliament 47–8, 47

  ‘parliament of owls’ 143

  Parthenon 23–4, 82–3, 85

  Pawnee see Native American tribes

  pellets 157–61, 158, 159, 160

  pels fishing owl 156

  Peru 33–4

  Picasso, Pablo 82, 124–31, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130

  Pima see Native American tribes

  Pliny the Elder 27–8, 37, 168, 190

  Podolsk 75

  Precolumbian America 33–4, 100–101

  Procter, Bryan Waller 81–2

  protective owl 9, 21, 27, 28, 31, 37, 56–9, 95, 96, 97, 100, 120

  Provenzale, Marcello 170–71, 171

  Punch (magazine) 55

  Quebec 72

  Queen of the Night, The 18–19, 19

  Rome 27–9

  Roosevelt, Theodore 22

  Rowling, J. K. see Harry Potter

  Russia 81, 92

  San Blas Archipelago 102

  Scotland 55–6, 55

  Scott, Sir Walter 42

  screech owl 25, 27, 35, 40, 41, 190

  Seminole see Native American tribes

  Shakespeare, William 35, 41–2

  Shang Dynasty 29, 30

  Sheffield Wednesday 73, 73

  Sioux see Native American tribes

  Slovenia 75

  smallest owl see elf owl

  snowy owl 15–16, 72, 90, 100, 108, 139, 140, 143; see also Harry Potter

  Songye 94, 95–6

  South Africa 137

  Spain 16, 93; see also Minorca

  Speculum Mundi (Swan) 36

  stamps 22, 106, 109–10, 109

  Sulawesi see Celebes

  Swan, John 36

  Syria 24

  Taoist period 31

  tattoo 109, 110

  Temple Owls (Temple University, PA, sports teams) 72, 73

  Tenniel, John see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  tetradrachm 21, 22

  Thurber, James 77, 89–90

  Tlingit see Native American tribes

  Transylvania 92

  Trinidad 175

  Trois-Frères cave, France 15, 15

  Tsimshian see Native American tribes

  Uluka (Ulooka) 48, 51

  vahana 48

  Verraux’s eagle owl 147

  voice 161–2

  Wales 92

  wedding cermonies 55–6, 55

  Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne) 88, 89

  wise owl 51–5, 70, 79

  Wise Owl, Sad Owl, Angry Owl 8

  witch 45

  Wither, George 46, 64, 64–9, 65, 66, 67, 68

  Woeiriot, Pierre 63, 64

  Wol see Winnie-the-Pooh

  Wugie the Owl 72, 72

  Yakama see Native American tribes

  Yupik see Native American tribes

  Zimbabwe 93–5

  zun 29, 30

  Zuni see Native American tribes

 

 

 


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