Motif
Feast for the dead as occasion for obtaining and distributing food
feast_for_the_dead_as_occasion_for_obtaining_and_distributing_food
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts TLINGIT MYTHS AND TEXTS / JOHN R. SWANTON / INTRODUCTION / MYTHS RECORDED IN ENGLISH AT SITKA; lines 837-924 confidence: medium
Raven announces a feast for his dead mother, gathers the people with drums, uses the cane to draw in the mysterious object, and the opened everlasting house yields the contents of the waters, fish, eulachon, and the feast materials.
Raven repeatedly states that he is giving a feast for his dead mother, and the opened house of waters supplies the materials for that feast.
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