CONTENTS 



Page. 



Introduction 5 



Texts witli free and interlinear tranHlations: 



INIoldy-forehead (Skidegate dialect) 7 



itdl'nl ( Masset dialect) 15 



Stories accompanied by texts: 



How Shining-heavens caused himself to be born 26 



How Master-carpenter began making a canoe to war with Southeast 32 



Canoe people who wear headdresses 36 



Tc!in qa'-idjit 44 



The girl who fed a raven 48 



Sounding-gambling-sticks 52 



Tclaawu^nk !" ....\ 58 



Story of the Food-giving-town people 70 



Story of Those-born-at-Skedans 86 



Story told to accompany bear songs 94 



Fight at the town of Da^x.ua 100 



War between the West Coast Haida and the Tlingit 104 



Myths in English: 



Raven traveling 110 



A-slender-one-who-was-given-away 151 



The one abandoned for eating the flipper of a hair seal 173 



Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward 190 



Supernatural-being-who-went-naked 210 



He-who-was-born-from-his-mother's-side 227 



He-who-travels-behind-us (or QomVts) 235 



He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger 238 



tAguadji'na, or Lg.anri"ogafia 252 



He who hunted birds in his father's village 264 



The story of him whose sister brought him food from tlie land otters 269 



How something pulled a row of eagles into the water 271 



The story about him who destroyed his nine nephews 277 



The story of one who saw an eagle town 281 



The one they abandoned because he was the first to spear sea lions 282 



The man who married a killer-whale woman 286 



He who was abandoned l)y his uncles 288 



The story of those who were abandoned at Stasqa'os 290 



He wlio married the daughter of the devilfish chief 292 



Those who were fasting to l)ecome shamans 294 



Big-tail 296 



The story of him through whom I.A^gua spoke 305 



Cloud-watcher 308 



Story of the shaman, G.A^ndox's-father 311 



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