[1] To find a good day for hunting. [↑]

[2] The unfaithfulness of a hunter’s wife would cause him to have poor luck or even bring about his death. Such was the case also in war. [↑]

[3] This word for grouse is a general one. The sooty grouse or “blue grouse,” however, is said to have been called łkꜝî′ng̣a sqa′owa-i, “wood grouse.” [↑]

[4] Townsend’s Sparrow (Passerella iliaca unalaschcensis, Gmel.). [↑]

[5] Perhaps the Red-winged Black Bird (Agelaius phœniceus, Linn.). [↑]

[6] See the story “[How Shining-heavens caused himself to be born].” [↑]

[7] This bird was caught like the wā′sg̣o, in the story of [Sacred-one-standing-and-moving]. [↑]

[8] All the spirits in the woods, be they quadrupeds, birds, or the spirits of trees, sticks, and stones. [↑]

[9] A mountain on the south side of Nass inlet. [↑]

[10] That was why he lost. [↑]