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• 1 2021-09-07T23:15:27+00:00 George Hunt Commentary on Długwala/Walasa’axa 17 Hunt’s Commentary (APS.A.W3, 1931:4916-4917, 4969-70): plain 2022-03-07T16:10:24+00:00 George Hunt Commentaries now here is another thing. 
  you know all the myth People who lived at Qā´lug̩wis^[1] are nearly all anemals and Birds. yet they can speake to Each other and understand Each other.
  and after a while. Each one of the anemals and Birds. turn themselves into man 
  and there Bird and anemals Body went away as anemals and Birds never to Return again. 
  and now after that these men use for their k!esᵋo^[2] what Ever kind of anemal and Bird they came out of. 
  
  now K!wē´k!waxā´weᵋ is the Raven.
  and whe[n he] came out of the Raven he sent the Bird Raven away.
  and he was a man walking in front of the Village at Qā´lug̩wis. Proudly
  and one of the People said gexsᴇmx·ʟäᵋoxda qäᵋnakwᴇlax or looks like a chief he that [is] walking along.
  and therefor his ᵋnᴇᵋmemot^[3] is called Gexsᴇm from that time to this Day.
  and now all the People that turn into men from Each kind of anemal and Bird[, that] is their k!⁠esᵋo. 
  and when they Disappeared in the winter Dance they suppose to Be taken away By what Ever kind of anemal his forefather came out of.…
  all these k!esᵋo Begens from the myth People at Qā´lug̩wis
  and it is used nearly in Every winter Dance from that time go from Father to the Elder son to this Day.
  for it is never given away in marriage.
  
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  now I will gave some of the Da[n]ces. of the myth People
  
  #1 ᵋāʟōᵋlēnoxᵘ wolf Dancer.  #2 ʟ!ēsᴇla´geᵋlā^[4] mink name is käx·^[5]  #3 g̣e´x·osᵋtâla^[6] Deer nōłᴇmała^[7] Dancer  #4 Hᴇwā´łᴇlał Dancer the land otter.  #5 nᴇnālał grizzly Bear Dancer.  #6 Hā´ᵋmaᵋalał Eatter Dancer  #7 Dzō´noq!walał. wild women of the wood Dancer 
  now next come the Birds
  #1 kwᴇkwᴇ´nx̣wᴇlał thunder Bird Dancer  #2 qāqolo´sᴇlał second size thunder Bird Dancer. g̣wᴇg̣wā´xwᴇlał Raven Dancer is K!wē´k!waxā´weᵋ.^[8]  #4 Hōx̣ᵘhōkwalał large hō´x̣ᵘhōkᵘ the cran[e] Dancer.  #5 kwᴇkwekwalał. Eagle Dancer.
  
  now all these twelve Defferent Dancers Belong to the myth [people] or nū´x̣ᵘneᵋmes^[9]…
  and another thing we Dont see the [Dance] name[s] Hᴇ´mshᴇmts!ᴇs^[10] and tō´x̣ᵋwid^[11] or ᵋnaᵋnaqa⁠´walił^[12] … used by the myth People.
  for they did not know any thing about it then…
  
  for they Did not want anything more then [than] the Dances that Really Belong to them from there anemal life.

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  Editorial Notes

  1. Qā´lug̣wis: ‘Bent Beach,’ a village site where the Kwaguł tribe lived formerly.
  2. k!esᵋo: ‘hereditary prerogative’
  3. ᵋnᴇᵋmemot or ᵋnᴇᵋmema: ‘kin group, clan,’ Boas's “numayma,” here meaning the ᵋnᴇᵋmema of Raven’s descendants.
  4. ʟ!ēsᴇlageᵋla: ‘Born to be the Sun,’ the story name of Mink, who, among the Kwaguł, is cast as the younger brother of Raven.
  5. Käx·: the winter-dance name of Mink.
  6. G̣e´x·osᵋtâla: ‘Hung Up [off the ground],’ the name of Deer in stories.
  7. Nōłᴇmał: ‘Fool Dancer.’
  8. K!wē´k!wa´xā´weᵋ: ‘Great Deviser,’ the story name of Raven.
  9. nū´x̣ᵘneᵋmes (pl. of nū´yᴇᵋmis): ‘myth people’ or ‘History People,’ the animal characters of the earliest stories.
  10. Tō´x̣ᵋwid: ‘to step forward,’ or War Dance.
  11.  ᵋNaᵋnaqa´walił: ‘Sunrise Dance.'