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by Gerald Musinsky

A significant hunting shaman in Haida legend who is taught by the Great Shaman, Qonatac (Being-at-Whose-Voice-Ravens-Sit-on-the-Sea) a dance that will bring otters from the sea. Once, when Big Tail's village was in the throes of starvation, he induced whales to come to the village's sea to hunt.