03102nam 2200673Ia 450 991078272050332120231206210407.01-282-86418-197866128641860-7735-7398-410.1515/9780773573987(CKB)1000000000713540(SSID)ssj0000279179(PQKBManifestationID)11216709(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279179(PQKBWorkID)10260470(PQKB)11674726(CaPaEBR)407499(CaBNvSL)slc00207834 (Au-PeEL)EBL3331723(CaPaEBR)ebr10178372(CaONFJC)MIL286418(OCoLC)923231586(DE-B1597)655959(DE-B1597)9780773573987(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/89qwts(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/407499(MiAaPQ)EBC3331723(MiAaPQ)EBC3248806(EXLCZ)99100000000071354019950207d1995 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe epic of Qayak[electronic resource] the longest story ever told by my people /Lela Kiana Oman, authors ; Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks, editorsOttawa Carleton University Press1995xx, 119 p. ill. (some col.)Co-published by Carleton University Art Gallery.0-88629-267-0 Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Preamble -- The Epic of Qayaq -- List of PlatesThis is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.InuitAlaskaFolkloreLegendsAlaskaInuitLegends398.22/0899971Oman Lela Kiana1540017Tyler Priscilla1540018Brooks Maree1540019Carleton University.Art Gallery.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782720503321The epic of Qayak3791372UNINA