← Table of contents
Myths and Legends of Alaska

ILLUSTRATIONS

Reading edition

PAGE

Tlingit Indians in Dancing Costume Frontispiece

Reindeer on the Tundra 20

“Raven taught them how to build houses of driftwood and bushes, covered with earth” 21

“The next morning the baby was a big boy” 24

“The clay became a beautiful girl” 25

Ivory Pipe Stems 28

Kayak Man Casting a Bird Spear 29

Eskimo Woman from Cape Prince of Wales 34

Fur Parkas Worn by Eskimo Women 35

Reflection of Mountain Peaks 38

“So the smoke-hole spirits held Raven until the smoke blackened his white coat” 39

Pine Falls, Atlin 42

Elk Falls 43

Porcupine 44

“Raven showed the people how to make canoes out of skins” 45

Shoup’s Glacier, Valdez 48

Birdseye View of Valdez 49

Masks 52

Dolls 53

Eskimo Boys 58

“Marmot put out the tip of his nose” 59

Ice Hummocks on Bering Sea 62

Snow Shovel, Pick, Rake, and Maul 63

Eskimo in Waterproof Coat Made of Walrus Intestines 66

“Raven said to Grouse, ‘You know that Sea-lion is your grandchild’” 67

Figurehead on Indian Canoe 68

“Raven said to Crow, ‘You will make lots of noise. You will be great talkers’” 69

“Raven said to North Wind, ‘Your back is white.’” (On the Road to Fairbanks) 70

Old Russian Blockhouse, at Sitka 71

“Raven unrolled the lake there. There it lay” 74

“The man-spirit was inside the Skana” 75

A Chilkat Blanket 78

Alaskan Baskets 79

Keystone Canyon 80

The “S” Glacier 81

The Yukon, Taken at Midnight in June 84

Islands in Sitka Sound 85

Tool and Trinket Boxes 88

Spoons and Ladles 89

Skagway River, from Porcupine Hill 92

Middle Lake and Bridge on the ’97 Trail 93

Face of Davidson Glacier 96

“The Land of the Dead”—Graveyard at Rasboinsky 97

Perry Island, Bogosloff Group, Newly Risen from the Sea 100

“The end of the Death Trail” 101

Walrus Tusks 106

A Shaman 107

Box Canyon, on White Pass and Yukon Route 110

Near Valdez Narrows 111

Frozen Waterfall 114

“The wind blows over the Yukon” 115

Travellers over the Chilkoot Pass (1891) after the Discovery of Gold 118

Looking down Cut-off Canyon from below White Pass Summit 119

Dog Team with Record of 412 Miles in 72 Hours 122

Siberian Husky 123

Totem Poles 126

Laplanders Milking Reindeer, near Port Clarence 127

View of Skagway 130

Bering Sea, near Nome 131

View of Eldorado 136

Scene on the White Pass and Yukon Route 137

Alaska Cotton on the Tundra, near Nome 142

A Crested Hat 143

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ALASKA

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings