[18] In other words, he was wearing one of those composite masks of which such numbers have been taken from this coast. ↑ [a] [b]
[19] Or “[Sacred-one-standing-and-moving];” see story quoted in note [17]. [↑]
[20] All ate from one long piece stretched around the entire room. [↑]
[21] A kind of berry which I have not identified. [↑]
[22] The word used here, tag̣ᴀ′nsgia, refers to a certain kind of root. [↑]
[23] Fire being the gateway between the material and the spirit world. [↑]
[24] I′ʟꜝgas, one of the names of Cape Ball, but applied to many other supernatural beings also. [↑]
[25] The proper rendering of this sentence is doubtful, but the sense is as here indicated. ↑ [a] [b]
[26] Spit point, which closes the southern side of the entrance to Skidegate inlet. [↑]
[27] According to some Qonā′tc became Supernatural-being-looking-landward at the end of his career, but others said most emphatically that it was Supernatural-being-at-whose-voice-the-ravens-sit-on-the-sea. Both lived, however, in the same neighborhood. [↑]