Master Carpenter

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.