{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/nw/kt/kt45.htm","path":"nam/nw/kt/kt45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/kt/kt45.htm","text":"Then he saw a perch. \"Don't come near me on the water. You are secular.\" 4--\"I am really the greatest thrower of all, 5 \u00d4'lalahah\u00eb'\", great friend!\" Thus he said to him. \"You are a great shaman,\" said Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu to him. \"H\u00ea'hehehe! you only say that I sing my sacred shaman's song. I feel only glad on the water because it is calm.\"--\"Come, friend, and let us meet,\" said Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu to him. The perch came ashore, and his cedar-bark head-ring\nwas dragging along on the water. Then Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu took him and put him into the water. He became a perch.\n207:3 Ibid. pp. 196, 223.\n207:4 That means not initiated in the winter-dance.\n207:5 The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1895) p. 485).","title":"Kwakiutl Tales: 16. The Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu Legend: Origin of the Perch","type":"page"}