304 HURKATT OF AMERICAN KTHN<>L(K1Y [bull. 29 



'•'Or " SacriHl-oiie-stundiiig-and-inuving; '" «■(.■ sl<nv (imitcd in note 17. 



^"All ate from one long piece stretched around tlic I'ntiri' moiTi. 



-'A kind of berry which I have not identified. 



'-"-'The Mord used here, tag..\^nsgia, refers to a certain kind of root. 



'-'•Tire being the gateway l)etween the material and the sj)irit world. 



^^I'Llgas, one of the namcH of Cape Ball, but applied to many other sui)ernatural 

 l:)eings also. 



'■'•''The proper rendering of thiss sentence is doulitful, but the sense is as here 

 indicated. 



-"Spit point, which closes the southern side of the entrance to Skidegate inlet. 



■■'''According to some Qona^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 neigh- 

 borhood. 



^* That is, Ne-koon or Rose spit; a long sand spit that runs northeastward from 

 the corner of Graham island between Dixon entrance and Hecate strait. It is sur- 

 rounded by dangerous tide rips and is much dreaded by the Indans for natural and 

 supernatural reasons. 



^^An old town site just north of Lawn hill at the northern entrance of Skidegate 

 inlet. 



•'"' Toward Rose spit and toward Skidegate. 



^^That is, the fern women; see the story of Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, note 

 48 and accompanying tent. 



^^ In the neighborhood of Da'x.ua. 



^*A place near the site of New Gold Harbor at the eastern end of Maude island, 

 Skidegate inlet. 



•■** Selwyn inlet. 



■^^Unidentified. 



^•'A cape in the inlet 



