Motif
Etiology of tools, clan emblems, dances, and food requests
etiology_of_tools_clan_emblems_dances_and_food_requests
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder 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 3069-3165 confidence: high
At the brants’ real home there are many kinds of fowls. War over a woman begins between brants and herons while swans try to make peace. Herons’ long bills badly destroy the brants. The passage explains picks, the swan crest of the ʟǃūkǃnᴀxᴀˊdî, and the brant emblem of the Kîksᴀˊdî.
The passage explains pick-making from heron bills, swan and brant clan emblems, heron dancing by creeks, and people asking flying brants for food.
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