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- catalog abstract ""In this book, the Native people of southwestern Alaska generously share the traditional stories that form the expressive core of their unique culture. The lifeways observed by a then-young university graduate, who recorded and compiled them in communities on Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, offer a glimpse today of a longstanding way of life." "Though much has changed in the last half century, Yup'ik and Cup'ig orators continue to tell stories to educate and amuse their listeners. With this English translation, Himmelheber has passed on what he learned to Native and non-Native readers alike."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Works. Selections. English. 1999".
- catalog contributor b11431327.
- catalog contributor b11431328.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In this book, the Native people of southwestern Alaska generously share the traditional stories that form the expressive core of their unique culture. The lifeways observed by a then-young university graduate, who recorded and compiled them in communities on Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, offer a glimpse today of a longstanding way of life." "Though much has changed in the last half century, Yup'ik and Cup'ig orators continue to tell stories to educate and amuse their listeners. With this English translation, Himmelheber has passed on what he learned to Native and non-Native readers alike."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.".
- catalog description "The frozen path -- Ethnographic notes on the Nunivak Eskimos -- The use of noseblood as a binding agent for paint colors among the Eskimos -- Unimaginable miracles in the poetry of Western Africa and the Eskimos.".
- catalog extent "xxxviii, 224 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Where the echo began.".
- catalog identifier "1889963038 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Where the echo began.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press,".
- catalog relation "Where the echo began.".
- catalog spatial "Alaska Nunivak Island".
- catalog spatial "Alaska Nunivak Island.".
- catalog subject "398/.0899714 21".
- catalog subject "E99.E7 H499213 2000".
- catalog subject "Yupik Eskimos Alaska Nunivak Island Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Yupik Eskimos Alaska Nunivak Island Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "Yupik mythology Alaska Nunivak Island.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The frozen path -- Ethnographic notes on the Nunivak Eskimos -- The use of noseblood as a binding agent for paint colors among the Eskimos -- Unimaginable miracles in the poetry of Western Africa and the Eskimos.".
- catalog title "Where the echo began : and other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska / recorded by Hans Himmelheber ; translated by Kurt and Ester Vitt ; edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan.".
- catalog title "Works. Selections. English. 1999".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".