Stories are maps, songs are caches and trails : the verbal art of Haayas, Kingagwaaw, Gumsiiwa, Ghandl and Skaay - five master mythtellers from Haida Gwaii

• Main Author: Dreher, Gudrum
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Skaay; > b. 1827?; Haida Indians > Folklore; Haida mythology; Storytellers > British Columbia > Queen Charlotte Islands; Tales > British Columbia > Pacific Coast; Pacific; Queen Charlotte; haida
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14999

This dissertation is a fragment of a larger -project that explores the works of five major oral mythtellers from Haida Gwaii, whose myths were transcribed in 1900 and 1901 by John Swanton: Haayas of the Hliiyalang Qiighawaay (Isaac Haias), Kingagwaaw of the Ghaw Sttlan Llanagaay (Walter Kingagwo), G...