THE LAND OF DARKNESS
A Story from Sledge Island
From the Eighteenth Annual BAE Report
PART ONE
VERY LONG AGO there lived
on Aziak (Sledge) Island a
man with his wife and little son.
The husband loved his wife very
much, but was so jealous of her
that frequently without cause he
treated her very badly. After a
time the wife became so unhappy
that she preferred to die rather
than live with him longer.
Going to her mother, who lived
nearby, she related a 11 her
troubles. The old woman listened
to the complaints and then told
her daughter to take a sealskin
and rub it with the excrement of
three ptarmigans and three foxes;
then to fill a wooden dish with
food and with her child upon
her back to go and meet her hus
band, and perhaps all might be
well with her.
Doing as she was directed, she
went down to the shore to meet
her husband. When he came within
hearing, however, he began to
scold and abuse her as usual, tell
ing her to go home at once and
he would give her a beating as
soon as he got there. When the
poor woman heard this she ran to
the edge of a low bluff overlook
ing the sea, and as her husband
drew his kayak upon the shore she
cast her sealskin into the water
and leaped after it.
Her husband saw this with
alarm, and ran quickly to the top
of a hill to see what had become
of his wife. He saw her sitting
upon the extended sealskin, which
was supported at each comer by
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a bladder, floating rapidly away
from the shore, for when the wo
man leaped into the sea, the seal
skin she threw in had suddenly
opened out and floats appeared at
each corner. This caught her upon
its surface and held her up safely.
Very soon after she began to float
away a storm arose and night shut
her from her husband's sight, and
he went home scolding angrily,
blaming everyone but himself for
his loss.
On and on floated the woman,
seated on the magic sealskin, and
for several days no land could be
seen. She used all her food, but
still she floated on until it became
unbroken night.
After a time she became so ex
hausted that she fell asleep, and
was awakened by several sharp
shocks and could hear the waves
breaking on a pebbly shore. Real
izing this, she began to try to save
herself; so she stepped from the
sealskin and was greatly pleased
to find herself standing on a beach
made up of small rounded objects,
into which her feet sank ankle
deep at every step.
These round objects made her
curious, so she stooped and picked
up two handfuls of them, putting
them in her food dish, after which
she went slowly on into the deep
blackness. Before she had gone far,
she came to a house, and, feeling
along its side, found the entrance
on one side, and on the other were
pieces of flesh and bags of whale
and seal oil.
(To be continued)
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MY LIKE STORY
By PETER KOONOOYAK
When I first began to go whal
ing, our boats were made of drift
wood frames about 20 feet in
length covered with oogrook skins
(bearded seals). The son of Chief
Attungowruk first asked me to
whale for him. I was about 8 or
9 years old. He did not get any
whales during the time I was
whaling for him.
Chief Attungowruk became very
fond of me. When I visited him
at his igloo he would pull out his j
cards and played writh me, but I do
not remember what game we
played. He often teased me to
marry his one and older daughter
when I became older, but I did
not choose her.
It was when I was about 12
years old that Chief Attungowruk
became very cruel and was assas
sinated by his own people here at
Pt. Hope. Chief Attungowruk was
killed about 1884 when I was about
12 years old, making me about 91
years old today.
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I married Kinnooanna at an
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wife was Ella. We had four chil
dren: Norma, Aggie, Patty, and
Trimble. Trimble, died at about
12 years old. My third wife is An
nie and she is still living.
When I was able to afford a
whaling crew of my own, I put
one out every spring. The total
number of whales in my lifetime
are 20 whales. I have retired as
whaling captain for three years
now and have turned over my
whaling gear to my son-in-law.
I am too old to take active part
anymore.
In my lifetime I have operated
a grocery store and have traveled
in some of the states, like Illinois
and New York, in the early
1900s.
I was many times President of
the Village Council and was re
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Point Hope people started and
maintained.
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