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Haida texts and myths

Note 5 — Story of the House-point families

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And afterward he came home. And he told his friends. Then they began to make a canoe. As he told them, they fastened down the seats with cedar limbs. When it was broken, they sewed it together with them. And, when he explained to them about the cedar bark, they also took that. They put cross sticks5 in the pieces and made houses. This is how they began to live under cedar barks. And at that time they also began fishing in the ocean.

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