Origin of steel-head salmon's flat body

Motif

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

Filed across the traditions

Tahltan Teit JAFL XXXII 242.

Within the index

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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