“They reached Fraser River, went down to its mouth, and pro- ceeded out to sea to the land of the salmon. When they arrived there, the strong brother hid himself, while the sick man trans- formed himself into a wooden dish, nicely painted and carved; and in this form he floated against the dam inside of which the people kept the salmon. A man found the dish, and took it to his daughter, who admired it very much, and used it to eat from.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 33 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan