Motif
Animal allies form a canoe war party
animal_allies_form_a_canoe_war_party
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect WAR BETWEEN THE WEST COAST HAIDA AND THE TLINGIT / WAR BETWEEN THE WEST COAST HAIDA AND THE TLINGIT / ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS / RAVEN TRAVELING; lines 5998-6102 confidence: high
Raven begs birds for canoe companions; Blue-jay offers himself, Raven calls him too old, but finally pulls him by the top of the head into the canoe, which is given as the reason for Blue-jay's flattish head.
Raven recruits birds and Halibut people as companions, transports them by canoe, and uses their arranged bodies in an attack on the enemy identified as Southeast-wind.
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