The origin of the wolf ritual : the whaling Indians West Coast legends and stories part 12 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts
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The origin of the wolf ritual : the whaling Indians West Coast legends and stories part 12 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts
(Mercury series = Collection Mercure, ethnology ; 144)
Canadian Museum of Civilization, c2007
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"Part 12, the Origin of the Wolf Ritual, is the last segment of the extensive Sapir-Thomas Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka, Texts corpus, recorded between 1910 and about 1923 mainly from the Ts'isha:ʔath̲ at Port Alberni, B.C."--Abstract
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-278)
Text in English and Nookta; abstract in French
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Description
This last segment of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts includes three first-hand accounts of the Tlo: kwa: na, or Wolf Ritual, principal ceremonial of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations of the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The ritual, which takes several days to enact, is described in detail, from the howling of the "Wolves" in human form, to the abduction of children to their forest lair and the return of these initiates to perform newly learned dances. Also included are Sapir's field record of a Tlo: kwa: na of 1910, his correspondence with his chief interpreters Alex Thomas and Frank Williams, and autobiographical stories by Alex Thomas.
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