The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters: West Coast Legends and Stories: Part 9 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts (Mercury, #139)

by Edward Sapir

Eugene Y. Arima (Editor), Terry Klokeid (Editor), and Katherine Robinson (Editor)

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Part 9 of The Whaling Indians features 28 accounts of traditional hunting life among the Nuu-chah-nulth drawn from a collection of oral history gathered between 1910 and 1923. They outline methods of hunting humpback and gray whales and the preparatory rituals that helped guarantee success.

  • ISBN10 0660191679
  • ISBN13 9780660191676
  • Publish Date 1 April 2004
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country CA
  • Publisher The University of Chicago Press
  • Imprint Canadian Museum of Nature
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 456
  • Language English