A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
by Clara Kern Bayliss
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bayliss, Clara Kern, 1848-1948
- Credits
- Produced by Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
- Subject
- Eskimos -- Folklore
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24569
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24569
- Release Date
- February 11, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A TREASURY OF ESKIMO TALES — BY
- 2.CLARA K. BAYLISS — Author of "A Treasury of Indian Tales," "Old Man Coyote," etc. — illustrated in color by GEORGE CARLSON — NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS — Copyright, 1922, By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY — Second Printing — Printed in the U. S. A.
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.I — THE BABY ESKIMO
- 7.II — KIVIUNG
- 8.III — THE GIANT
- 9.IV — KALOPALING
- 10.V — THE WOMAN MAGICIAN — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.VI — THE BIRD WIFE
- 12.VII — THE SPIRIT OF THE SINGING HOUSE
- 13.VIII — THE TORNIT
- 14.IX — THE FLIGHT TO THE MOON
- 15.X — WHAT THE MAN IN THE MOON DID
- 16.XI — THE GUEST
- 17.XII — THE ORIGIN OF THE NARWHAL
- 18.XIII — WHAT THE ESKIMO BELIEVES — HOW MEN WERE CREATED — THE FLOOD
- 19.XIV — THE FIRST MAN
- 20.XV — THE FIRST WOMAN
- 21.XVI — OTHER MEN
- 22.XVII — MAN'S FIRST GRIEF
- 23.XVIII — UP TO THE TOP OF THE SKY, AND DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
- 24.XIX — TAKING AWAY THE SUN — FOOTNOTES:
- 25.XX — THE DWARF PEOPLE
- 26.XXI — WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LONE WOMAN OF ST. MICHAEL
- 27.XXII — WHY THE MOON WAXES AND WANES — FOOTNOTES:
- 28.XXIII — CHUNKS OF DAYLIGHT
- 29.XXIV — THE RED BEAR
- 30.XXV — THE LAST OF THE THUNDERBIRDS
- 31.XXVI — RAVEN MAKES AN OCEAN VOYAGE
- 32.XXVII — THE RED SKELETON
- 33.XXVIII — THE MARMOT AND THE RAVEN
- 34.XXIX — ORIGIN OF THE WINDS
- 35.XXX — RAVEN AND THE GEESE
- 36.XXXI — EVEN A GRASS PLANT CAN BECOME SOMEONE IF IT TRIES
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