Mercury Series; Ethnology 139
456 pages; 6 figures; 7 maps; 6.75x9.5"; paper
English
Prepared by Edward Sapir; Morris Swadesh; Alexander Thomas; John Thomas; and Frank Williams and told by Sa:ya:ch'apis; William; Frank Williams; Big Fred; Captain Bill; and Qwishanishim This part 12 has four accounts by Sa:ya:ch'apis et Tlo:tisim, three of them on the origins of this major Nuu-chah-nulth ceremonial, called Tlo:kwa:na. Also included are three appendices: 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.