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Record #154090:

Where the echo began: and other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska recorded by Hans Himmelheber / Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed.

Title: Where the echo began: and other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska recorded by Hans Himmelheber / Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed.
Author(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann,
Date: 2000.
Publisher: Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press
Abstract: As young university graduate Hans Himmelheber visited Alaska in mid-1930s collecting traditional stories and taking photographs, many reproduced here for the first time. Also includes translated text of Himmelheber's main works The frozen path: myths, tales, and legends of the Eskimos, Ethnographic notes on the Nunivak Eskimos, Noseblood as adhesive material for color paint among the Eskimos, and Unimaginable miracles in the poetry of western Africa and the Eskimos.
Keywords: 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo. Yup'ik.
291.8 -- Oral history.
92 -- Biographies: Himmelheber, Hans.
T -- Social anthropology and ethnography.
(*49) -- Alaska.
(*492) -- Alaska, Kuskokwim.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*49) : 398(=563)[2000]
ISBN: 1889963038
SPRI record no.: 154090

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