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  title info:
    title: Nine visits to the mythworld
  title info:
    title: Nine visits to the mythworld
    sub title: told by Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas
  title info:
    title: Works. Selections. English
  name:
    name part: Ghandl
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bringhurst, Robert
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Translations
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2023
    edition: 2nd edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: hai
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 222 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: "In the Fall of 1900, a young American anthropologist named John Swanton arrived in the Haida country, on the Northwest Coast of North America, intending to learn everything he could about Haida mythology. He spent the next ten months phonetically transcribing several thousand pages of myths, stories, histories and songs in the Haida language. Swanton met a number of fine mythtellers during his year in the Haida country. Each had his own style and his own repertoire. Two of them--a blind man in his fifties by the name of Ghandl, and a septuagenarian named Skaay--were artists of extraordinary stature, revered in their own communities and admired ever since by the few specialists aware of their great legacy. Nine Visits to the Mythworld includes all the finest works of one of these master mythtellers. In November 1900, when Ghandl dictated these nine stories, the Haida world lay in near ruins. Wave upon wave of smallpox and other diseases, rapacious commercial exploitation by fur traders, whalers and miners, and relentless missionization by the church had taken a huge toll on Haida culture. Yet in the blind poet's mind, the great tradition lived, and in his voice it comes alive. Robert Bringhurst's eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that supply the needed background information."--
  note: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas ; translated from Haida by Robert Bringhurst.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Translated from the original Haida.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-bc
  subject:
    topic: Haida mythology
    geographic: British Columbia
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
  subject:
    topic: Haida poetry
    genre: Translations into English
  subject:
    topic: Tales
    geographic: British Columbia
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
  subject:
    topic: Haida Indians
    geographic: British Columbia
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Haida
    geographic: British Columbia
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie haida
    geographic: Colombie-Britannique
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
  subject:
    topic: Contes
    geographic: Colombie-Britannique
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
  subject:
    topic: Haida mythology
  subject:
    topic: Haida poetry
  subject:
    topic: Tales
  subject:
    geographic: British Columbia
    geographic: Haida Gwaii
  classification: E99.H2 G53 2023
  classification: 398.2089/9728
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Masterworks of the classical Haida mythtellers ; volume 2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Nine visits to the mythworld
    title info:
      title: Works. Selections. English
    name:
      name part: Ghandl.
    origin info:
      publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, 2023
      edition: [2023 edition].
    identifier: (OCoLC)1387599648
  identifier: 9781771623773
  identifier: 1771623772
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 230628
    record change date: 20250318223152.1
    record identifier: in00005464297
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng