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Haida texts and myths

Note 5 — The one abandoned for eating the flipper of a hair seal

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He stretched his arms on these. Each [of these horizontal pieces] was two fathoms long. Some were one fathom long [for uprights]. There were twenty poles of each sort. All had notches on the ends. Toward the top, which he worked down small, he placed a design. He put figures of salmon there. These parts were the łg̣aiyî′ñgadadjî.5

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