LEADER 03099nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910813928503321 005 20240416195557.0 010 $a1-282-86418-1 010 $a9786612864186 010 $a0-7735-7398-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773573987 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260470 035 $a(PQKB)11674726 035 $a(CaPaEBR)407499 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00207834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10178372 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286418 035 $a(OCoLC)923231586 035 $a(DE-B1597)655959 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773573987 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/89qwts 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/407499 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331723 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3248806 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713540 100 $a19950207d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe epic of Qayak $ethe longest story ever told by my people /$fLela Kiana Oman, authors ; Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks, editors 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOttawa $cCarleton University Press$d1995 215 $axx, 119 p. $cill. (some col.) 300 $aCo-published by Carleton University Art Gallery. 311 $a0-88629-267-0 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tPreamble -- $tThe Epic of Qayaq -- $tList of Plates 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aInuit$zAlaska$vFolklore 606 $aLegends$zAlaska 615 0$aInuit 615 0$aLegends 676 $a398.22/0899971 700 $aOman$b Lela Kiana$01704692 701 $aTyler$b Priscilla$01704693 701 $aBrooks$b Maree$01704694 712 02$aCarleton University.$bArt Gallery. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813928503321 996 $aThe epic of Qayak$94090864 997 $aUNINA