Foam Woman

Female founding ancestress; classed as a deity. Counterpart to Djila'qons, the ancestress of the Eagle moiety. The native Haida term was not recovered in the consulted sources, so term is left empty.

Domains

• lineage and ancestry
• primordial flood

Powers

• shoot lightning from her eyes
• give rise to the Raven-clan lineages

Sources

• Swanton, John R. Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida, AMNH Memoirs 8, 1905.
• Haida Gwaii Museum, 'Haida Supernatural World' exhibition.