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• Title:Tales from the totems of the Hidery; collected by James Deans, edited by Oscar Lovell Triggs.
  
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• Variant Title:Tales from the totems of the Haida Indians
  Tales from the Hidery
  
• Author/Creator:Deans, James, 1827-1905.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Triggs, Oscar Lovell, 1865-1930.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago, 1899.
  

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  • Call Number: E99.H2 D2
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Haida Indians--Folklore.
  
• Description:4 pages ., 96 pages. 6 plates (including frontispiece). 25 cm.
  
• Series:Archives of the International Folk-lore Association ; v. 2.
  International Folk-lore Association. Archives ; v. 2.
  
• Summary:Professional anthropologist James Deans was sent by Hudson's Bay Company to learn about the Haida Indians of British Columbia. He recounts some of the folklore associated with totem poles and connects the stories to Haida culture.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:No. 244 of an edition of 600 copies.
  "Of this edition there were printed 600 copies ... Each book is numbered"--Page [i].
  
• Contents:Introductory
  Hidery land
  The Hidery people
  Hidery houses
  Patlaches [i.e. Potlaches]
  Religious belief of the Hidery
  The Hidery to-day
  Tales from the raven crest: [The origin of the sun, moon and stars]
  Another version [of The origin of the sun, moon and stars, Cowitchian]
  Another version [of The origin of the sun, moon and stars, Naas and Skeena tribes]
  Origin of fish, Hidery version
  How Cauch, the raven god, got Oulachans
  The origin of mankind
  How they first got fire
  Yethel the raven god and his salmon wife
  The story of Yethel and a flood
  How the raven god helped the women
  The feast of the raven god, Ne-kilst-lass
  The story of the eagle
  The sun totem and its story
  The daughter of the sun
  The moon crest and its story
  Tales from the bear totem
  How the bear stole his wife from the Hidery
  Story of the bear and Eagle's claw
  The story of the bear and Frog
  The story of the mountain goats
  Wasco and the story
  The Scannah totem and its stories
  Keel-coonuc, or, Whale's slave
  The adventures of Nuch-noo-simgat, etc.
  How the Whull-e-mooch got fire : a legend of the Cowtichians
  The bear and the princess, a Hidery tale
  [Stories from the mortuary columns of the Hidery]: Meela's tomb
  The story of Bealus
  The doom of the Katt-a-quins, a legend of Alaska. Appendix: Totem poles at the World's Fair (reprinted from the American antiquarian, vol. XV)
  Officers of the International Folk-Lore Association for 1898-9.