Ten'a texts and tales from Anvik, Alaska / by John W. Chapman, with vocabulary by Pliny Earle Goddard.

  • Chapman, John W. (John Wight), 1858-1939.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Ten'a texts and tales from Anvik, Alaska / by John W. Chapman, with vocabulary by Pliny Earle Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I'hcn tlie ijirl bei^an to look around, and saw some fish- O ' lvini>- in the corner. She took them and rubbed them all over herself; and then her mother saw her, and screamed out and said that it was her own daughter, and did not know what to make of her. Then the darm-hter told her mother where she had been, and what she had done, and how she had seen her father making his way uj) the river in a broken canoe, ddien her mother told her that her father had died in the fall, and that they had put half a canoe on the grave, and that it was this that he was using. Then she asked for her brothers; and her mother told her that they were all in the kashime, celebrating a parka feast on her account. Idien the mother made ready to take her daughter into the kashime. She took with her a great beaver blanket; and when they came to the door of the kashime, she spread it out and covered the girl with it; and so she got her into the corner of the kashime without the knowledge of the rest that were there. o There she remained until they were just ready to give the feast, and then she danced out before them all. Everv one was amazed, and no one knew what to do. Then she went to her place; and her brothers brought her all the parkas and boots that they had intended to give away, and asked her to tell where she had been and all that she had seen ; and from that time, the parka feasts have been celebrated. Now, as for that log, it came from underground, or from wherever the dead people are, to this Avorld, where we are. 3. NoTNNldGU.^ No Linne gu is a rich man, who has a parka of marten- skins. He lives with several of his brothers at a place ' /\ story told in connection with the feast of animals’ souls.