The Whaling Indians: Legendary Hunters: West Coast Legends and Stories: Part 9 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka Texts

By Alexander Thomas, Morris Swadesh, Edward Sapir

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0660191679
• ISBN13: 9780660191676
• Release Date: June 1905
• Publisher: Canadian Museum of History
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.4"