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Tsimshian Mythology
Henry Wellington Tate and Franz Boas · 1916
Original text in Tsimshian.
Among the Tsimshians, a story is family property, passed down with a name and rights, and told at feasts that Canadian law forbade from 1884 to 1951.
Tale · 69 parts · about 180 000 words · about 13 h 02 of reading
Contents
- Preface3 min
- Alphabet2 min
- Tsimshian Mythology1 min
- Brief Description of the Tsimshian[1] Culture Areas18 min
I. Tsimshian Myths
- 1. Txä’msᴇm (The Raven Legend)1 h 49
- 2. The Meeting of the Wild Animals[1]5 min
- 3. The Story of the Porcupine-Hunter6 min
- 4. The Story of Grizzly Bear and Beaver4 min
- 5. Story of the Porcupine1 min
- 6. Beaver and Porcupine1 min
- 7. Story of the Deluge1 min
- 8. Sun and Moon7 min
- 9. Am’ala’ (Very Dirty)[1]12 min
- 10. The Four Great Chiefs of the Winds7 min
- 11. The Story of Nālq16 min
- 12. The Feast of the Mountain Goats8 min
- 13. The Giant Devilfish8 min
- 14. The Hunter’s Wife Who Became a Beaver[2]7 min
- 15. The Winter Hunters and the Mosquito8 min
- 16. The Hunters15 min
- 17. The Hunter and His Wooden Wife5 min
- 18. Plucking Out Eyes8 min
- 19. The Spider and the Widow’s Daughter7 min
- 20. Prince Snail12 min
- 21. The Otter Who Married the Princess14 min
- 22. The Widow and Her Daughter11 min
- 23. The Mink Who Married a Princess4 min
- 24. The Chief Who Married the Robin and the Sawbill Duck[1]15 min
- 25. The Princess Who Rejected Her Cousin15 min
- 26. The Bear Who Married a Woman[1]1 min
- 27. The Prince Who Was Taken Away by the Spring Salmon34 min
- 28. The Town of Chief Peace[1]18 min
- 29. Sucking Intestines5 min
- 30. Burning Leggings and Burning Snowshoes10 min
- 31. Hak!ulâ’q[1]9 min
- 32. The Prince Who Was Deserted17 min
- 33. The Princess and the Mouse13 min
- 34. The Young Chief Who Married His Cousin13 min
- 35. The Story of Asdi-wā’l1 min
- 36. Waux, the Son of Asdi-wā’l6 min
- 37. The Blind G·it-q!ā’°da9 min
- 38. Local Winter in G·it-q!ā’°da7 min
- 39. The Drifting Log17 min
- 40. The Story of Asdiłda and Ōmen20 min
- 41. Explanation of the Beaver Hat5 min
- 42. The Water Being Who Married the Princess12 min
- 43. The Story of Part Summer14 min
- 44. Explanation of the Abalone Bow2 min
- 45. Story of Gunaxnēsᴇmg·a’d1 min
- 46. Story of the G̣anha’da[2]1 min
- 47. G·it-na-gun-a’ks16 min
- 48. The Four Chiefs and Chief Grizzly Bear11 min
- 49. Gau’o1 min
- 50. Story of the G·ispawadwᴇ’da1 min
- 51. Tsauda and Halus[3]21 min
- 52. Story of the Wolf Clan23 min
- 53. The Prince and Prince Wolf13 min
- 54. The Ghost Who Fought with the Great Shaman20 min
- 55. Great Shaman13 min
- 56. Story of the Ghost7 min
- 57. The Man Who Bound Up His Wrinkles11 min
- 58. The Brothers Who Visited the Sky[1]1 min
- 59. Six Hunters[1]1 min
- 60. The Land Otter[2]2 min
- 61. The Deluge9 min
- 62. The Cannibal6 min
- 63. Origin of the Cannibals[1]1 min
- 64. Story of the Wolf Clan[1]2 min
- Supplement: Three War Tales1 h 23
About this text
Henry Wellington Tate and Franz Boas († 1914): public-domain work. The text is that of la transcription établie par Erostrate sur le fac-similé d'Internet Archive (Tsimshian Mythology, by Franz Boas, based on texts recorded by Henry W. Tate, in Thirty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1909-1910, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
Note on the edition (in French): Partie I : mythes recueillis en tsimshian par Henry W. Tate et traduits par Franz Boas, avec la préface, l'alphabet et la brève description du peuple ; sans les parties II à IV, les figures ni les partitions. Notation tsimshiane de l'édition gardée. Texte établi en collationnant le scan avec deux autres exemplaires ; noms et mots douteux relus sur l'image.
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