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Shadow of the hunter : stories of Eskimo life
Title:
Shadow of the hunter : stories of Eskimo life
JLCTITLE245:
Richard K. Nelson ; illustrations by Simon Koonook.
Personal Author:
Nelson, Richard K. author
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1980.
Physical Description:
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780226571799
Abstract:
Fiction based on a collage of what is real. Series of stories which follow a group of Eskimo hunters and their families through the cycle of an arctic year. Based on the author's stay of fourteen months among the Eskimos of Wainwright, Alaska.
Local Note:
Copy four inscribed by author.
Personal Subject:
Nelson, Richard K.
Subject Term:
Eskimos -- Hunting -- Alaska.

Eskimos -- Alaska -- Social life and customs.
Added Author:
Koonook, Simon,
Personal Name:
Stanton Mabel Patty donor

John Whitehead donor

Stephen MacLean donor
Contents:
Introduction -- Moon of the returning sun (January) -- The moon for bleaching skings (March) -- The moon when whaling begins (April) -- The moon when rivers flow (May) -- The moon when animals give birth (June) -- The moon when birds raise their young (July) -- The moon when birds molt (August) -- The moon when birds fly south (September) -- The moon of the setting sun (November) -- The moon with no sun (December) -- Appendix: The setting -- Glossary.
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