A story as sharp as a knife
Subtitle: the classical Haida mythtellers and their world
By: Robert Bringhurst.
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Haida mythology.; Haida poetry -- Translations into English.; Haida Indians -- Folklore.; Legends -- British Columbia -- Pacific Coast.
Genres: Translations into English.; Folklore.
Description: "The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form.

Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: English and Haida.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-516) and index.
Includes translations of poems.