The whaling Indians : legendary hunters
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The whaling Indians : legendary hunters
(Mercury series = Collection Mercure, ethnology paper ; 139)
Canadian Museum of Civilization, c2004
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The whaling Indians : legendary hunters : West Coast legends and stories part 9 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts
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Note
Bibliography: p. 429-431
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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.
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