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Ancient land, sacred whale : the Inuit hunt and its rituals

Title
Ancient land, sacred whale : the Inuit hunt and its rituals / Tom Lowenstein.
Author
Lowenstein, Tom.
Publication
London : Bloomsbury, 1993.

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Description
xxvi, 189 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Account of the ritual and myth of the life of the Tikigaq people of northwest Alaska, focussing on the whale hunt.
Subject
  • Inuit > Hunting > Alaska > Point Hope
  • Inuit > Hunting > Poetry
  • Whaling > Alaska > Point Hope
  • Whaling > Poetry
  • Whaling
  • Inuit > Hunting
  • Walfang
  • Alaska > Point Hope
  • Point Hope, Alas
  • Eskimo
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188).
ISBN
  • 0747513414
  • 9780747513414
LCCN
94212287
OCLC
  • ocm31436466
  • 31436466
  • SCSB-2019048
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library