This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...45 X 86. The Woman who Married the Dead Man 247 87. The Returned from Spirit Land 249 88. The Sky Country 250 Texts 252 89. The Origin of Copper 252 90. The Man who was Abandoned 262 91. The Shaman who Went into the Fire, and the Herons Son 267 92. Mountain: Dweller 280 CONTENTS VH Textsa Continued. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...45 X 86. The Woman who Married the Dead Man 247 87. The Returned from Spirit Land 249 88. The Sky Country 250 Texts 252 89. The Origin of Copper 252 90. The Man who was Abandoned 262 91. The Shaman who Went into the Fire, and the Herons Son 267 92. Mountain: Dweller 280 CONTENTS VH Textsa Continued. Papg 93. Kaha sli, the Strong Man 289 94. The Lle naXxidaq 292 95. Origin of the Frog Crest among the Kikpadi 294 96. How the Kiicsami Came to Sitka 295 97. The Four Brothers 297 98. The Iviksa i Woman who-was Turned into an Owl 299 99. Moldy-end 301 100. Moldy-end (Wrangell version) 311 101. Qaqlatcgu k 321 102. The Sea-lion Hunt 324 103. The War in the Spruce Canue 325 104. Storj of the Kagwantan 326 105. Storj of the Ka ckle qoan 347;a ) 106. Origin of a Low-caste Name 369 The Tobacco Feast 372 Speeches Delivered at a Feast when a Pole was Erected for the Dead 374 Words of Songs Taken in connection with Graphophone Records 390 Abstracts of Myths 416 M-ths recorded in English at Sitka 416 PHONETIC KEY a a longer and shorter forms of the Continental a, like a in far a as in fall A as in final; a close approximation to u in cut e e longer and shorter forms of the Continental e, like a in fate d as in hell i i longer and shorter forms of the Continental i, like ee in street 6 o longer and shorter forms of English o, as inflow u as in rule A barely formed o and u sounds; rather qualities of the preceding consonant sounds than independent vowels q the velar k, not found in English g the velar g corresponding to the preceding, not found in English y a sound similar to but deeper than the preceding, pronounced by the younger Indians almost like English y X the velar spirant, pronounced like Spanish j or German ch X the palatal spirant, often...
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