Treated as a deity-class culture hero. The name Nankilstlas/Nankil'slas ('voice handler') is in some Haida tellings an epithet of Raven himself, and the carpenter figure overlaps with the Raven complex; recorded by Swanton at Skidegate.
Domains
carpentry and canoe building
Powers
wage a carving-duel against the South-East Wind
Carve the dugout cedar canoe
Shape and order the things of the world by carving
Sources
Swanton, John R. Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect, BAE Bulletin 29, 1905.