Mercury
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Book 139
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.
Legendary hunters
by Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Alexander Thomas, and John Thomas
Origin of the wolf ritual
by Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Alexander Thomas, and John Thomas
Tales of extraordinary experience
by Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Alexander Thomas, and John Thomas