Note 443 — Chapter III · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class
Joseph Ward Swain translation
This is especially clear among the Haida. Swanton says that with them every animal has two aspects. First, it is an ordinary animal to be hunted and eaten; but it is also a supernatural being in the animal's form, upon which men depend. The mythical beings corresponding to cosmic phenomena have the same ambiguity (Swanton, ibid., 16, 14, 25).