ID: 901002023 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002023	Record Type: Legendary Built Work

	Paul Bunyan (American legendary character)

Note: Legendary American woodsman, giant lumberjack; legendary hero of the lumber camps in the United States, a symbol of bigness, strength, and vitality. The tales and anecdotes that form the Paul Bunyan legend are typical of the tradition of frontier tall tales. Paul and his companions, Babe the Blue Ox and Johnny Inkslinger, are characters in a number of tales about hardships in the wilderness.

Names:

	Paul Bunyan (American legendary character) (preferred,English-P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<North American Iconography> (P)
		........<American iconography (United States)> (P)
		............<American characters (United States)> (P)
		................Paul Bunyan (American legendary character) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... hero
	.....(people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... legendary character
	.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... lumberjacks
	.....(lumberers, people in agriculture or natural resource occupations, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... United States
	.....(North and Central America) (TGN)

Sources:

	Paul Bunyan (American legendary character)
	................National Museum of American History [online] (1999-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ National Museum of American History [online] (1999-)
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Paul Bunyan (legendary character)," accessed 1 July 2019