[1] The pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps). Cf. story of [Raven traveling], page [111]. [↑]
[2] See the story of [Sacred-one-standing-and-moving], note [2]. [↑]
[3] Compare the story of [Raven traveling], pages [118], [119]. [↑]
[4] Thus singularly suggesting the narwhal. [↑]
The man who married a killer-whale woman
[Told by Abraham of Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsgo, who learned it from an old Ninstints man.]
A man and his wife were abandoned at the town of Sqa-i[1]. After they had lived there together for a while, his wife began getting mussels at Stasqa′os[1]. Every day she went there for mussels.
After a while he became suspicious of her. And one time, when she went after mussels, he followed her stealthily. When she got near the place where she was going to get mussels she went along singing. She beat upon her mat with her digging stick in lieu of a drum. When she got near the place where the mussels were a whale jumped ashore sideways just in front of her. Then she went to it, and she lay with it. And the whale went off blowing. He saw it.