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Overview

After fleeing his former household and surviving a hostile lone-dweller, Makite finds a dwarf settlement. Its entrance is too small even for his foot until the inhabitants tell him to raise it with his back; inside it becomes spacious. Their elder warns that inland-dwellers are approaching. The two groups take positions outside without speaking.

The inland-dwellers’ dog barks first. A great wave rolls towards the dwarfs but dwindles as it reaches them. The dwarfs’ dog answers with a bark that raises another wave, overwhelming the opposing group and drowning most of them. Makite then establishes a home and lives there until his death. The dogs’ wave-making belongs to this particular contest, not a power assigned to ordinary dogs. The story does not give the animals individual names or explain why one wave loses strength while the other prevails.

Barks generate water wavesOne wave dwindlesOpposing wave overwhelms attackersUnnamed animal champions
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Origins & earliest records

The volume’s final source list assigns this narrative to West Greenland Inuit. Knud Rasmussen collected the material; W. Worster edited and translated the 1921 English selection. No individual storyteller is named here. Worster states that he selected and edited versions, including omissions; this is not an unabridged performance transcript.

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Records & interpretation

The complete Makite narrative and final regional source list were inspected. The story begins on printed p. 68.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Eskimo Folk-Tales

    Knud Rasmussen, collector; W. Worster, editor and English translator · 1921

    Makite, begins printed p. 68.

Family & connections

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References

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  1. Primary textRasmussen/Worster 1921: MakiteResearch access: 2026-10-05

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