The one whose eye was a bear's eye

Anonymous No. 5; Thomason, Lucy

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The one whose eye was a bear's eye

Anonymous No. 5;Thomason, Lucy

Date: 2011-11-21

Abstract:

This is a winter story about a skilled hunter who is killed in battle and who is then brought back to life by the animals he had always treated exceptionally well. He is given medicine that has the power to revive the dead.

Description:

The original manuscript of this stoy is in the Truman Michelson Collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. It was written by an anonymous author sometime between 1911 and 1938. The version given here was transcribed, phonemicized, otherwise edited, and translated by Lucy Thomason.

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