Where the echo began
Subtitle: and other oral traditions from southwestern Alaska
By: recorded by Hans Himmelheber ; translated by Kurt and Ester Vitt ; edited and annotated by Ann Fienup-Riordan.
Contributors: Fienup-Riordan, Ann.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Fairbanks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Nunivak Island -- Folklore.; Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Nunivak Island -- Social life and customs.; Yupik mythology -- Alaska -- Nunivak Island.
Description: "In this book, the Native people of southwestern Alaska generously share the traditional stories that form the expressive core of their unique culture. The lifeways observed by a then-young university graduate, who recorded and compiled them in communities on Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, offer a glimpse today of a longstanding way of life.".

"Though much has changed in the last half century, Yup'ik and Cup'ig orators continue to tell stories to educate and amuse their listeners. With this English translation, Himmelheber has passed on what he learned to Native and non-Native readers alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: The frozen path; title: Ethnographic notes on the Nunivak Eskimos; title: The use of noseblood as a binding agent for paint colors among the Eskimos; title: Unimaginable miracles in the poetry of Western Alaska and the Eskimos.