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Showing canoe route from the Tanana to the upper Kuskokwim River

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Identifier: inalaskanwildern00gord (find matches)
Title: In the Alaskan wilderness
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927
Subjects: Eskimo languages Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ting boat. 12. Village. 13. Cache. Aglu is a sea monster bigger than the whale.246 (s cr>s ^ar 1^f\; ^> I (3 14 15 16 7 (Rl^^ sSSP 13 iT^ u C He has long sharp teeth and jaws that workhorizontally. Keelugpuk, the Mammoth, once lived in thesea, but was driven out by the Aglu. He wastoo heavy to walk on the surface of the ground,but he swam through the land just as he hadbeen accustomed to do in the sea. Keelugpuk isnow extinct, but long ago the Eskimo used to killand eat him when he rose to the surface of theearth. A great deer much larger than the caribou ormoose which formerly lived in Alaska and washunted by the ancestors of the Eskimo. Thisanimal, the partner of the reindeer, first livedin the sea, but was driven out, together withKeelugpuk, by Aglu, and for a long time he con-tinued to live on the land. Amakum is described as a huge monster thatformerly lived on the tundra and frequentedpools. Tunook is the devil. He is sometimes seen byhunters on the lonely tundra. 247 UAKK
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SKETCH V1AP MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CHIEFAT TANANA FOR THE AUTHOR IN IQO5

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  • bookyear:1917
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Gordon__G__B___George_Byron___1870_1927
  • booksubject:Eskimo_languages
  • booksubject:Alaska____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia___The_John_C__Winston_Company
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
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  • bookleafnumber:350
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