Origin of steel-head salmon's flat body

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Origin of steel-head salmon's flat body.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: body. · view the constellation · filed as A2305.1.1

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TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 242.

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Filed under Origin of fish's flat body. (Cf. A2231.9.)

Filed beside it

Origin of flounder's flat body. (Cf. A2126.)Why lobster is flat. (Cf. A2213.2.4.)

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