Creation of the World - Inuit The Raven and his wife created the world. They made the cape of Uñi´sak out of a nose of an eider-duck (Somatheria spectabilis); the peninsula of Alaska, of a long belt-knife; and the island Ima´lik (one of the Diomedes), of a button of the scabbard (with which it is clasped around the hip). They made reindeer of their hair, and dogs of their nails, and sea-water of their urine. Told by Ñ?pe´wgi, an Asiatic Eskimo man, in the village of Uñi´sak, at Indian Point, May, 1901. Footnotes 1 This fragment seems to include material from two different sources, - one belonging to the Raven cycle, and probably borrowed from the Chukchee; the other referring to the creation of Uñi´sak and Alaska, undoubtedly Eskimo. The Eskimo of Siberia WALDEMAR BOGORAS Come visit us at. "Keeper of Stories". http://www.newkeeperofstories.com/ or Come visit us. "Native Village" [email protected]