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The dancing fox : Arctic folktales
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The dancing fox : Arctic folktales

Author: John Bierhorst; Mary K Okheena
Publisher: New York : Morrow, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
A description of Inuit culture accompanies a collection of eighteen Inuit folktales from an ancient oral tradition in which animals could take human form and in which magic usually had a part.
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Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Bierhorst; Mary K Okheena
ISBN: 0688144063 9780688144067 0688144047 9780688144043
OCLC Number: 34633384
Description: xxvi, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Adventures of Kivio -- Woman under the sea -- Giant and her little son -- Lost boys -- Worms and lice -- Girls who wished for husbands -- Orphan who became strong -- Two sisters and their caribou husbands -- Land of the birds -- Kasiak -- Woman who lived by herself -- Cannibal village -- Dancing fox -- Little bear -- Great giant Kinak -- Soul wanderer -- Two dried fish -- Blind boy and the loon.
Responsibility: edited by John Bierhorst ; illustrated by Mary K. Okheena.

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A description of Inuit culture accompanies a collection of eighteen Inuit folktales from an ancient oral tradition in which animals could take human form and in which magic usually had a part.

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