This fragment seems to include material from two different sources, one belonging to the Raven cycle and borrowed from the Chukchee; the other referring to the creation of Uni’sak and Alaska, undoubtedly Eskimo.
Source
The Jessup North Pacific Expedition
edited by Franz Boas
Memoir of the American Museum
of Natural History – New York
Volume VIII
3. The Eskimo of Siberia
by Waldemar Bogoras
Leiden & New York, 1913
► Themes of the story
Creation: The tale explains the origins of various geographical features and animals, detailing how the world came into being.
Transformation: The Raven and his wife transform parts of their bodies and objects into elements of the natural world, showcasing a theme of change and formation.
Cultural Heroes: The Raven, a significant figure in many indigenous cultures, acts as a foundational character who shapes the world and its inhabitants.
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Learn more about the Yupik peoples
Told by Nipe’wgi, an Asiatic Eskimo man, in the village of Uni’sak, at Indian Point, May, 1901.
The Raven and his wife created the world.
They made the cape of Uni’sak out of a nose of an eider-duck; the peninsula of Alaska, of a long belt-knife; and the island Ima’lik (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.
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