Reading Notes:Alaskan Legends unit, Part B.

This part of Alaskan stories contains many creation stories and also stories about the spirit world. These stories are part of the Alaskan Legends unit that are collected from Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).

The First Woman

Back to the early time, when there was only one woman in the earth around with so many man. Of course, many man wanted to marry her. She lived in a South. A man came from the northland married her, and both living in happy. One day, the son of the headman broke into their house to kidnap the woman. As the son of the headman carried her to the north side, the husband ran after to take her back. The son of the headman hold the upper part and the husband caught the woman by her feet. Both pulled her until she was teared into two parts. Both then made the woman completed by carved wood to attack to each part. The woman in the north side, with her lower part making by wood, was not doing good with things that related to her feet such as dancing, while very good as sewing and embroidered. The woman in the southland was a good dancer, but was not skillful with her hands since they made by wood.

Dancing

 Conversely, the woman in the north side, with her lower part making by wood, was not doing good with things that related to her feet such as dancing, while very good as sewing and embroidered. 

Hand embroidered