Motif
canoe drifting ashore with the dead
canoe_drifting_ashore_with_the_dead
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage 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 23926-23977 confidence: medium
The translated second song says the nation’s canoe is drifting ashore with him, that the speaker’s uncle is already dead, and that the speaker does not expect him any more.
The second song says the nation’s canoe is drifting ashore with him, immediately alongside the statement that the uncle is dead.
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