"Tales ... gathered from the Eskimo who make their homes along the Arctic coast and rivers of the Seward Peninsula."--p. 7

At foot of p. [2] cover: 3000 - April 1944

Bound in pictorial paper cover, p. [2] of cover listing members of Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Indian Service, and the Education Division; cover p. [3] lists other publications available in the Indian Life Series as well as Sherman Pamphlets on Indian life and customs and Indian handicrafts pamphlets

King Collection copy contains all stories found in hard cover edition in King Collection, printed in different type face, stories in continuing format without blank portions of page between, using less pages (no statment of war time economy measures); lacks 3 p. picture dictionary, What does it mean?, found final pages of other copy