[6] One of the most prominent women among Those-born-at-Skedans; see “[Fight between Those-born-at-Qā′gials and Those-born-at-Skedans],” note [11]. [↑]
[7] See “[Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward],” note [31]. [↑]
[8] Intimating that she was too great for anything to have happened to her without something being heard about it. [↑]
[9] Taunting him with having suffered his sister to be whipped unavenged. [↑]
[10] Blood having been drawn from the chief, they would suffer for it in any case. [↑]
[11] Or the G̣ᴀ′ñxet-gîtîna′-i, a prominent Eagle family among the Ninstints people. [↑]
[12] He was about to trade the skins he had just won for European commodities. [↑]
[13] In earlier times this was the site of a town belonging to the Xā′gi-lā′nas. [↑]
[14] At Masset the following explanation of this name was given: A man desiring to become wealthy once ate a common plant called xat-gī′na (i.e., “common xat”) mistaking it for the true xat, which is supposed to be a powerful property medicine. Nevertheless he became wealthy and assumed the name Ginᴀ′skilas, a contraction of Xat-ginᴀ′skilas (“Wealthy-by-means-of-common-xat”), in commemoration of the fact. This Ginᴀ′skilas succeeded South-east as town chief of Kloo. [↑]
[15] They now live in the same town and form parts of the same household. [↑]