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Alaskan igloo tales
Title:
Alaskan igloo tales
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by Edward L. Keithahn ; illustrated by George Aden Ahgupuk ; edited by Kenneth Gilbert.
Publication Information:
Anchorage, Alaska : Alaska Northwest Pub. Co., [1974]
Physical Description:
138 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm
ISBN:
9780882400389
Abstract:
A collection of 35 folk tales from the Eskimos of Alaska's Seward Peninsula.
Contents:
The dwarfs -- The first bears -- E-zum-mol-look-oon -- The Eskimo traders -- The boy who ate too much -- A-puk-een-a, the great hunter -- The hunter and the raven -- How a worm destroyed a tribe -- When the dead man danced -- The robber dwarfs -- The story of a head -- The two orphans (a Siberian Eskimo story) -- The boy who couldn't remember -- King-a-leek, the duck-snarer -- The story of Ah-sik-so-kak -- Adventures of Oo-goon-gor-o-seok -- Starving time at Wales -- The wolfmen and the hunter -- The tree that became a man -- A tale of two old women -- The wicked mother -- A ghost story from Wales -- Why old-squaw ducks are everywhere -- The raven-skin parka -- The man who became a caribou -- An adventure of a medicine-man -- The magic birdskin -- A story of Tiyuk -- Mr. Raven and the squirrel hunter -- How the rich man saved his people -- Siksruk, the witch-doctor -- How Oo-veva-meak became a shaman -- Two cousins -- A story from the Koyukuk -- How Mr. Raven outwitted the fox -- What does it mean?
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