Sapir. Nootka Texts

Today's free book is Nootka Texts by Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh (1939). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

1. What mosquitoes are made of
2. Deer and the Wolves
3. Raven and Skate
4. Kwatyat and Wolf
5. Kwatyat's mother moved, it is said
6. Kwatyat and the Sunbeam Girls
7. The Story of how Kwatyat went out for a walk
8. Raven and his wife 
9. Raven and Snipe
10. The Transformer
11. Red-headed Woodpecker and the Thunderbirds
12. The dog children
13. The man who brought back his wife from the dead
14. The jealous woman
15. The crow girl
16. The girl who married the Yai and the Sky Man
17. The youths who followed a bird
18. The brothers who revenged their sister
19. The marriage of Mink
20. A fight about hunting grounds between the chiefs of the Lice
and the Wolves
21. The stealing of children by Pitch Woman and their rescue
22. Origin of the Wolf Ritual dance of the Yellow Cedar Bark Ogre

II. Ethnological Narratives
23. The Tsayik, a doctoring ritual
24. A secret ritual for trolling
25. A secret ritual for spearing fish
26. A secret ritual for sea-lion hunting
27. Taboos for sea-mammal hunting
28. Trolling for spring salmon
29. Fishing for cod with baited kelp-line and sinker
30. A secret ritual for soma bait
31. How a father of twins caused a big salmon run
32. A girl obtains power from the fish
33. Hisawistath and Hitatsoath Wolf Ritual rights are handed over
to Tom's father
34. Tom gets wealth from three supernatural beings
35. Tom has two uncanny experiences
36. Tom washes away his nephew's low birth
37. Tom gives his first Wolf Ritual
38. Tom marries
39. Tom gives various potlatches
40. Captain Bill's marriage
41. Frank Williams'Wolf Ritual experience
42. A fight for a drift whale
43. Revenge on the sea lions and sea otters
44. Tom gives advice to his grandson