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A short collection of folk-tales and songs from the Eskimos of Siberia including: The Old Woman and the Wild Beasts; The Girl in the Iron Box; The Girl who watched in the Night-Time; and, The Contest between the Giant and the Plover.
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The Eskimo of Siberia is a collection of classic folk tales and mythology. Waldemar Bogoras was a Russian revolutionary, writer and anthropologist, especially known for his studies of the Chukchi people in Siberia. The materials, published by Bogoraz in periodicals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, such as Specimens of Materials for Studying Chukchi Language and Folklore and Studies of Chukchi Language and Folklore Collected in Kolyma District were a very valuable contribution to the development of linguistics and made the author popular around the world. During the 1920s and '30s he did important anthropological work creating and teaching written languages for indigenous Siberian peoples and founded the Institute of the Northern Peoples in Leningrad. This book is a collection of wonderful tales from the indigenous peoples of Siberia.
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