Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect / recorded by John R. Swanton.

  • Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect / recorded by John R. Swanton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 K) 12 1UIR1:AU or AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [liUU,. 29 hen it wus evening lie saw his mother with jiitch on her face'® weeping. He also saw his father walking about. After they had gone along for a while they said they had built a fort for them. Two went up to see it and said it was not quite tinished. After that they went up again to see it. They said it was not ([uitc tinished; but the ne.xt time they went up to see it they .said it was fini.shed. Then it was tine weather, and they pulled off a pole from inside the edges of the canoe and .shook the sky with it. At once rain began to fall. Tho.se in the canoe wei-e happy. They prepared themselves, i hey shook their insides with anger, becau.se the}^ were going to light the fort. That [the foiTj was a tish trap, they .say. At once they started up in a crowd. He recognized his mother and swam ashore in front of her. Then his mother tried to club him, and he escaped into the creek. And when he did the .same thing again he let his mother club him to death. And when his mother started to cutoff his head for immediate cook- ing the knife clicked upon something on his neck, and she looked. She recognized the copper necklace her son u.sed to have around his neck. Stiix. ill's It WHS evening G.d'ng.an His father t.'a'odji l! fort tle'wan linishcd trien and A/ A 1 Sin his a og.il mother la ([111(111 g.OIlAS. he saw walking about. thev I.! (hey xAiidAwa'gas sg.a'-ilgAiiAs 1a qe'iiiAs. in inonrning was weeping he saw. l! qa'yin qa'odi l! klia'og.a They went after [awhile] them onaeeoniitof (i.asti'n (je'ngahis gii'n ha'oxAii too L'g.olg.afi l! si'wus built they said. .si'wus. (rll'istA I'slfl said. After that again they went np to look. Two went np to look at and not quite l! (p'figalasi. Ila'oxAii tle'wan l! Wai'gien And x.iltfa'owas it was tine weather and SU USl. said. (^ * A Tien And dAil.sqla'.sdAsi pulled olT drdag.e'ilsi. ram tell. l! they went uii to'Mght A/ A*... I Sin l! (le'ngalasi git'm again they wentiiptolookalit and It was not quite g.eilgi'gAfi l! it was tinished they g.e'istA tla'sk out of pole la at l! kitx.idAsui'si. it with they shook. i.n'goasi klfi'inAsi. (jii'tat L.'naiiAnAs. Tho.sein theeaiioe were haiipy. Them.selves [they] fixed. x.itgidAnga.siisi g.Aii i,! qa'h In'ldAiiAS. finished they LUWa -1 the canoe djin (|ll'li edges inside glen and ([o ya([U g.Aii sky for (JiifiiVxAn l! they shot)k skln'x.idAsi. Tn.sides. (Tlgu'o Fish trap this SI WUSI. .said. i (Ijifl I.! long they Gana'xAu At onee T!a'odjiga-i The fort liao idjii'n A'wun 1a sfia'dAs giCm His mother he recognized and Ia gi .skrdjiwii.s gii'n iigA'ii him to tried to elnb and him.self tliey started np in a crowd. 1a squ'g.agatgils xe tgu in front of he swam ashore. Ia gTgoyi'iiL.stasg.as. he saved to seaward. . Glen r a'og.a And his mother (lien i'.sm gana'fi And again like Ia idjiga'-i l.u Iia'iixah awu'ii agA'n Ia skitkld'tuldas. he dm wlien right there hismother himself he let club to death. CiiCm And hayrn in.stead g.aoi.. j immediate cooking X.ll neck for r a'og.a r ([fi'dii q!eit([!a'-iLx.idia'-i his mother his heail started to cut ofT L.U when Ins gut Upon x.aixtdgistagia'nas Ia copper used to have she around his neck (|!a onanAiisi clicked .Sfja'dAS. recognized. gien and Ia she Gie'nliao tclfi And then plank qea'na.si. looked [in]. L’ Her .sku'nxa clean .sqa wa-1 the knife gi'tg.ii son Ia la gu at it she