The interest of this story lies in the fact that it resembles well-known Eskimo myths in certain details. The episode with which it opens is told all the way round the world. [[269]]
[1] As was once customary with the sons of chiefs. [↑]
[3] Plants with edible roots growing around the mouths of creeks. ↑ [a] [b]
[4] Such as were used to make awls and gimlets out of. [↑]
[5] Supernatural beings are often said to be tickled by having some one merely look at them. [↑]
[6] This is undoubtedly the pole held on the breast of Supernatural-being-standing-and-moving, which rose in the middle of the Haida country and extended to the sky. [↑]
[7] Master Hopper (Łkienqā′-ixōñ), referred to in many other places throughout these stories. He was a one legged supernatural being, or a supernatural being having one leg shorter than the other. Here he is represented as only a half-man. [↑]