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Eskimo legends / by Lela Kiana Oman ; illustrated by Minnie Kiana Keezer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 3561
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oman, Lela Kiana.
- Series:
- AMU Press book ; 21.
- Alaska native literature series
- AMU Press book ; no. 21
- Language:
- English
- Eskimo languages
- Subjects (All):
- Eskimos--Alaska--Folklore.
- Eskimos.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 118 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Anchorage : Alaska Methodist University Press, 1975.
- Contents:
- Nathlook: Susie, my name
- The bear woman
- The spirit of slumber
- The creek of whale oil
- Legend of Kotzebue
- Lights of the caribou
- Qatliisiigvik (where the bird skin was cooked)
- Aye-mee and the mermaid
- The sea serpent
- The enchanted sky.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: title leaf and p. [5]-[6] largely detached from spine.
- OCLC:
- 1647679
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