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Haida texts and myths

Note 9 — He-who-travels-behind-us (or Qonā′ts)

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Her brother (i.e., the old town-chief) was killed. Then she started from the town. And she put the two bracelets she wore into the middle of ʟgidō′9. And she said: “Through you future people shall see a portent.” When something terrible was going to happen, they saw them. Broad seaweeds lay upon them. They paddled off in terror. Although they (the people) had before been living quietly, they moved from that place at once. And she went up into the woods opposite. She became a mountain there. They call it Sea-otter-woman.

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