Markings on king-salmon

Motif

Markings on king-salmon.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2412.4.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 242 (red marks below ears).

Within the index

Filed under Markings on fish. (Cf. A2217.3, A2213.2.)

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