Note 27 — Big-tail.

Immediately he invited the people. They came in at once. When all got in he began to dance before them. They who came in wore fins. He dressed himself up and came in, and lay down in the rear of the house, wearing a full killer-whale suit. His fins touched the roof of the house. Then he came out of it, and, as he held it in his hands, he said: “Real dorsal fin. Real dorsal fin. What human beings call in a common way a dorsal fin (łg̣ᴀn). Real dorsal fin.” After he had stood around a while, he said: “Human beings keep saying this about me. They keep saying that I used to be a human being.”27 All in the house laughed at him. It was as if things moved the house.