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Title: Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Morrison, Dorothy Hawkes, Ernest William, 1883-
Subjects: Eskimos
Publisher: (Regina, School Aids (and) Text Book Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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These are authentic Eskimo stories, selectedfrom Memoir 91, Anthropological Series 14, TheLabrador Eskimo, by E. W. Hawkes. They have been retold to make them suitable foruse as supplementary reading material in schools. Used by permission of the Department of Minesand Resources, Ottawa, and gratefully acknowledged. SOME EXPLANATIONS angekok—a wise man who acts as priest, prophet, and doctor,torngak—a spirit helper. Each person is supposed to have a torngak, who is something like a guardian angel.Torngarsoak—an Eskimo god, the Great Torngak. Torn- garsoak is supposed to rule over the water animals.Superguksoak—an Eskimo goddess, supposed to rule over land animals, especially the caribou. She is in the form of an old woman,kayak—hunting boat,umiak—womans boat,dicky—the tunic or upper part of the Eskimo suit. A large hood is fastened to the back of the dicky. It has come from the Eskimo word atigc. Printed in Canada and copyriijhted bySCHOOL AIDS AND TEXT BOOK PUBLISHING Ctaleseskimostell00morr

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