The origin of the wolf ritual
Subtitle: the whaling Indians West Coast legends and stories
By: prepared by Edward Sapir ... [et al.] ; edited by Eugene Arima, Terry Klokeid and Katherine Robinson.
Contributors: Arima, Eugene Y.; Robinson, Katherine.; Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939.; Klokeid, Terry J.; Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Series: Mercury series; Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service -- 144; Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) -- no. 144.
Publisher: Published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corp.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gatineau, Québec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780660197050
Subjects: Nootka Indians -- Folklore; Nootka language -- Texts; Tales -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island; Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- Folklore; Wolf ritual
Genres: Folklore.; Texts.
Notes: "Part 12 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts told by Sa:ya:ch'apis and T[l]o:tisim."

"Part 12, the Origin of the Wolf Ritual, is the last segment of the extensive Sapir-Thomas Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka, Texts corpus, recorded between 1910 and about 1923 mainly from the Ts'isha:?ath at Port Alberni, B.C."--Abstract.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-278).

Text in English and Nookta; abstract in French.