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Haida texts and myths

Note 6 — STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS

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And after he had taken all sorts of sticks, he broke some limbs from a bunch of Raven’s-berry bushes6 and handed them to him, and he said: “That is it.” Then [the man] made it into gambling sticks, and when he had finished them he touched two with coals. He put the figure of a sea otter on one and he put the figure of a young sea otter on the other. Then he had designs made on five large clam shells. They had figures of cumulus clouds. And he had five mats woven for him. He had these made for him to stake.

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