Jenness, Diamond "Stray Notes on the Eskimo of Arctic Alaska," Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1953)
From Wales to beyond Point Barrow the Eskimo have many tales of two monsters, a ten-legged white bear, qoqogaq or qoqogiaq, and a walrus dog. A Wales native living near Point Barrow, who claimed to have seen the bear, said that the distance between its ears is the full stretch of a man's two arms. It is so big and heavy that it can break through ice as thick as a man is tall. Sometimes it lies on its back and waves its ten legs in the air so that from a distance they appear like men in motion; hence hunters are warned to be careful if they see anything that looks like a man on the ice. In the spring and summer it lies in wait to drag the hunter's kayak under the water. Whether there is only one of these animals, or more than one, the Eskimo cannot agree. A party travelling eastward from Point Barrow in the autumn of 1913 heard one swimming beneath their sleds, and when they coughed loudly and moved away from the trail, the monster poked its head through the ice, which was too ...