Motif
Animal participates in honoring the dead
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A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 3028-3067 confidence: high
Story title: “23. HOW THE FROGS HONORED THE DEAD.”
The section title names frogs honoring the dead; within the narrative, a big frog enters the funeral fire and is later named so that it may receive food placed in the fire.
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