Koryak Texts BY WALDEMAR BOGORAS
E. J. Brill Leyden, 1917 Electronic edition 2004 by Michael Dürr (
[email protected]) for www.siberian-studies.org This is an electronic image facsimile of the 1917 print edition (resolution 300 dpi). It has been converted into a searchable Adobe PDF file with an additional invisible OCR background layer. Due to unsatisfactory results from OCR on Koryak, the index should be consulted for English words and proper names from the translations (ignoring diacritics) only.
KORYAK TEXTS
PUBLICATIONS of the
American Ethnological Society Edited by FRANZ BOAS
VOLUME V
KORYAK TEXTS BY
E. J. BRILL, LIMITED PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS
LEYDEN, 1917
G. E. STECHERT & Co., NEW YORK, AGENTS.
NOTE. The present volume was intended to include a collection of Kamchadal texts. Owing to the war, it has been impossible to communicate with Mr. Bogoras; and since the volume has been in type for over two years, it seems best to publish the collection of Koryak texts alone. There is some inconsistency in spelling the verbal endings -lin and -len. These ought to be read consistently as given here. The forms -lin and -len are incorrect. There is no g in Koryak. Wherever this occurs, it should be read g.
EDITOR. November, 1916.
PRINTED BY E. J. BRILL, LEYDEN (HOLLAND).
CONTENTS.
Page
I
1 . Little-Bird-Man a n d Raven-Man . . . . . . . . . . 12 2. Big-Raven and the Mice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3 . T h e Mouse-Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 4. How a Small Kamak was transformed into a Harpoon-Line . 35 5 . Big-Raven a n d t h e Kamaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 6. Kilu' and the Bumblebees . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 7 . Ememqut's Whale-Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 8 . Ememqut a n d ila' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5° 9. How Ememqut became a Cannibal . . . . . . . . . 53 1 0 . Ememqut a n d Fox-Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1 1 . Ermine-People. — I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 12. Ermine-People. — I I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 13. Ememqut and the Kamaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1 4 . Ememqut a n d Shellfish-Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1 5 . Ememqut a n d t h e Perches . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 0 1 6 . Miti' a n d Magpie-Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 17. How Big-Raven's Daughter was swallowed by a Kamak . . 76 18. The Kamak and his Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 1 9 . Gull-Woman a n d Cormorant-Woman . . . . . . . . . 82 20. Yinia-nawgut and Kilu's Marriage with Fish-Man . . . . 86 21. Big-Raven a n d F o x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 0 2 2 . Ememqut a n d Envious-One . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 23. Big-Raven a n d Fish-Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 C h u k c h e e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Koryak, Kamenskoye . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Koryak, Qarenin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Koryak, Lesna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7 Kamchadal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7 2 4 . Kilu' a n d Monster-Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 Koryak, Kamenskoye . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 0 Koryak, Paren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 1 Koryak, Qarenin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 2
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APPENDIX I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 3 Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 3 APPENDIX I I Constellations
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