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Haida texts and myths

Note 11 — Big-tail.

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Afterward, when he had acted as a shaman does for a while, he said: “I wonder what is going on in the house of Supernatural-being-at-whose-voice-the-ravens-sit-on-the-sea. I wonder why a drum sounds.” Then he chewed tobacco and said he would go down and see. And he fell asleep. After he had slept for a while, tcōxō′xō (noise of waking up) [was heard],11 and he called to his wife. He had married a woman he owned (i.e., a slave). “Middle,12 help me to sit up.” Then she pulled him up.

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