CONTENTS

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CENTRAL ESKIMO TALES
[I.]The Baby Eskimo[1]
[II.]Kiviung[3]
[III.]The Giant[12]
[IV.]Kalopaling[14]
[V.]The Woman Magician[18]
[VI.]The Bird Wife[23]
[VII.]The Spirit of the Singing House[28]
[VIII.]The Tornit[30]
[IX.]The Flight to the Moon[33]
[X.]What the Man in the Moon Did[37]
[XI.]The Guest[41]
[XII.]The Origin of the Narwhal[43]
BERING STRAIT TALES
[XIII.]What the Eskimo Believes[49]
[XIV.]The First Man[52]
[XV.]The First Woman[57]
[XVI.]Other Men[61]
[XVII.]Man's First Grief[65]
[XVIII.]Up to the Top of the Sky, and Down to the Bottom of the Sea[69]
[XIX.]Taking Away the Sun[76]
[XX.]The Dwarf People[82]
[XXI.]What Happened to the Lone Woman of St. Michael[85]
[XXII.]Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes[87]
[XXIII.]Chunks of Daylight[90]
[XXIV.]The Red Bear[95]
[XXV.]The Last of the Thunderbirds[99]
[XXVI.]Raven Makes an Ocean Voyage[103]
[XXVII.]The Red Skeleton[108]
[XXVIII.]The Marmot and the Raven[111]
[XXIX.]Origin of the Winds[114]
[XXX.]Raven and the Geese[120]
[XXXI.]Even a Grass Plant Can Become Someone if it Tries[127]

ILLUSTRATIONS

He summoned his mascot which was a huge white bear (7)[Frontispiece]
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He lifted the boulder as if it had been a pebble[39]
He whipped on his magic coat and became a raven[93]
A gale swept in bringing reindeer, trees and bushes[117]