ouperuaT,urai powers 427 



Mythic animals - 441 



Conception of natural phenomena 449 



Traditional showers of ashes 449 



Animal symbolism 450 



Folk tales - 450 



Scope of Alaskan folklore 150 



Flood legends from St Michael 452 



Tales of the Raven - 452 



The creation 452 



Haven takes a wife 462 



The Raven, the Whale, and the Mink 464 



The Red Bear (from St Michael and Norton sound) 467 



The Giant . 471 



The One-who-finds-nothing 474 



The Lone Woman 479 



The circling of cranes 480 



The dwarf people - - - 480 



The Sun and the Moon (from St Michael) 481 



The Sun and the Moon (from the Lower Yukon) -182 



Origin of land and people 482 



The bringing of the light by Raven 483 



The Red Bear (from Andrei vsky) 485 



The last of the Thunderbirds 486 



The Land of the Dead 188 



The strange boy -1 90 



Origin of the Yn-gi-yhTk or I-ti-ka-tah festival 494 



Origin of winds 497 



The strong man 499 



The Owl-girl 499 



Tale of Ak -chik-chu -guk 499 



The discontented Grass-plant 505 



The tire ball 510 



The Land of Darkness 511 



The Raven and the Marmot 514 



The shaman in the moon 515 



The Man-worm 516 



Migration legend 516 



Origin of the people of Diomede islands and of East cape, Siberia 517 



