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Tsimshian

noun
1.
A member of a Penutian people who lived on rivers and a sound in British Columbia.
2.
A Penutian language spoken by the Tsimshian.





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"Tsimshian" Quotes from Famous Books



... may be learned of contemporary tribal culture by a study of the mythology of a given people, since so much of the setting of the ancient tale reflects the tribal life of the time of the recording. He has made a test of the idea in his study of the Tsimshian Indians. From this collection of 104 tales he concludes that: "In the tales of a people those incidents of the everyday life that are of importance to them will appear either incidentally or as the basis of a plot. Most of the reference to the mode of life of the ...
— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett


Words linked to "Tsimshian" :   Penutian


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