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Tsimshian Oral Literature
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Texts
Tsimshian Texts (Nass River Dialect) — Franz BoasFranz Boas's 1902 collection of Nass River Tsimshian myths and stories, told by Philip, Moses, Chief Mountain, and Moody, with Boas's own English abstracts of every tale.Tsimshian Texts, New Series — Franz BoasFranz Boas's 1912 second collection of Tsimshian texts, six myths and tales including the long Asdiwal cycle later made famous in structuralist anthropology, with his introduction on their relation to his earlier Nass River volume.