Motif
animal people provide rescue by box
animal_people_provide_rescue_by_box
A motif of the Sacred Vessel and Container 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 22455-22505 confidence: medium
A speaker thanks his father’s people, says he has become poor from mourning his uncles, notes their gifts of clubs and the house Nāłx hît, compares them to sea-lion people who gave a poor fellow a box to bring him ashore, and describes their words as clothing.
The speaker cites sea-lion people who gave a poor fellow a box to bring him ashore.
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