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Haida texts and myths

Note 20 — Big-tail.

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There was a great pile of property for those in the house. Before they entered their provisions came rolling in before them through the door. They had two [boxes] or, if chiefs, four. Now they began to eat. It was a whale. And they cut it around and around right from its head and stretched it around in front of the supernatural beings. They spliced another to that also, and then they all began to eat.20 After all had eaten for some time they stopped. All the big beings went off.

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