Smelcer, John E. , editor & Collector
THE RAVEN AND THE TOTEM Traditional Alaska Native Myths and Tales
c. 1992: Anchorage, Alaska. A Salmon Run Book. . . Trade Paperback. Drawing illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. Bibliography. Index. Numerous full-page illus. SIGNED BY EDITOR on title page in blue ink: John Smelcer. SHORT STORIES. "Editor John E. Smelcer has assembled this introductory anthology of oral 'narrative' literature, containing some 60 tales from 14 Alaska native groups, inlcuding Tlingit, Eskimo, and Athabaskan, so that the unfamiliar reader may partake of a magnificent journey into the mythic cosmos of the first peoples of Alaska - a world of creation and death, of passions and magic, of deceit and power; a cosmos where animals speak and Raven rules supreme. " ; 9" Tall; 149 pages. are almost like new.. ISBN Number:. Keywords:[Yupik;, Sugpiaq;, Inupiaq;, Folk Tales;]
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