Research Catalog

Title

Shadow of the hunter : stories of Eskimo life / Richard K. Nelson ; illustrations by Simon Koonook.

Author

Nelson, Richard K.

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.

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Additional Authors

Koonook, Simon.

Description

xiii, 282 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Fiction based on a collage of what is real. Series of stories which follow a group of Eskimo hunters and their families through the cycle of an arctic year. Based on the author's stay of fourteen months among the Eskimos of Wainwright, Alaska.

Subject

• Nelson, Richard K
• Eskimos > Hunting > Alaska
• Eskimos > Alaska > Social life and customs
• Indians of North America > Hunting > Alaska

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Moon of the returning sun (January) -- The moon for bleaching skings (March) -- The moon when whaling begins (April) -- The moon when rivers flow (May) -- The moon when animals give birth (June) -- The moon when birds raise their young (July) -- The moon when birds molt (August) -- The moon when birds fly south (September) -- The moon of the setting sun (November) -- The moon with no sun (December) -- Appendix: The setting -- Glossary.

ISBN

• 0226571793
• 0802023886

LCCN

^^^80011091^

OCLC

• 6042986
• SCSB-10159957

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library