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Note 9 — A-slender-one-who-was-given-away

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He put on his two yellow-cedar blankets and walked about among them (the people). And they did not see him. Then he went into the chief’s house and to the right. It had ten tiers of retaining planks. On the upper one, in the middle of the sides, one sat weaving a chief’s dancing-blanket. Then from the blanket she was weaving something said: “To-morrow, too, one of my eyes [will still be] unfinished, unfinished.”9

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