{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/inu/eos/eos06.htm","path":"nam/inu/eos/eos06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/eos/eos06.htm","text":"The Eskimo of Siberia, by Waldemar Bogoras, [1913]\nThe Raven and his wife created the world. They made the cape of U\u00f1i\u00b4sak out of a nose of an eider-duck (Somatheria spectabilis); the peninsula of Alaska, of a long belt-knife; and the island Ima\u00b4lik (one of the Diomedes), of a button of the scabbard (with which it is clasped around the hip). They made reindeer of their hair, and dogs of their nails, and sea-water of their urine.\nTold by \u00d1\u1ecbpe\u00b4w\u0121i, an Asiatic Eskimo man, in the village of U\u00f1i\u00b4sak, at Indian Point, May, 1901.\n424:1 This fragment seems to include material from two different sources, \u2014 one belonging to the Raven cycle, and probably borrowed from the Chukchee; the other referring to the creation of U\u00f1i\u00b4sak and Alaska, undoubtedly Eskimo.","title":"The Eskimo of Siberia: I. Folk-Tales: 5. Creation of the ...","type":"page"}