kashim

Then he went into the kashim and said, "Now, you worthless shamans, you see I have brought back the light, and hereafter it will be light and then dark, making day and night."

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

Almost immediately after this the men in the kashim saw a fiery figure dancing on the gut-skin covering over the roof hole, and an instant after a human skeleton came crawling into the room through the passageway, creeping on its knees and elbows.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

When the shamans drove him out, he went to the house of his aunt in the village and told her what he had said, and how the shamans had beaten him and driven him out of the kashim.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

He continued to do this at intervals until he reached the kashim in his own village, where he dropped the rest of the ball.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

At this the shamans became very angry and beat him and drove him out of the kashim.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

One time, however, she became angry at him, and that night when she carried food to the other brothers in the kashim or assembly house where the men slept, she gave none to the youngest brother.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

One snowy night he was told to go out of the kashim to see if the weather was getting worse.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

The moon, being without food, wanes slowly away from starvation until it is quite lost to sight; then the sun reaches out and feeds it from the dish in which she carried food to the kashim.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

In a village of the lower Yukon there lived an orphan boy who always sat upon the bench with the humble people, over the entrance way of the kashim or assembly house.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

Entering the kashim, they found the orphan boy, who told them how the people had been killed.

A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss