ID: 901001783 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001783	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Bear's Wife and Her Children (Amerindian narrative)

Note: Widespread story, in many variations, in cultures ranging geographically from the Andes through North America and into Siberia. In one version a male bear disguises himself as a human youth in order to kidnap and seduce a shepherd girl.

Names:

	Bear's Wife and Her Children (Amerindian narrative) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
		........<General Amerindian iconography> (P)
		............<General Amerindian narratives> (P)
		................Bear's Wife and Her Children (Amerindian narrative) (I)

Related Iconography:

	actor is .... Ukuku
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Amerindian iconography, Inca iconography, Inca characters, Ukuku (Inca character)) [901001784]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... legend (literary genre)
	.....(folk tales, genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	actor is .... bear
	.....(Carnivora (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Bear's Wife and Her Children (Amerindian narrative)
	................Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004)
	................NMAI [online] (2005-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004) 105 ff.
	................ NMAI [online] (2005-)