Limitations of Scholarship
It is impossible for any of the information on this page to be taken literally for the fact that so much is lost in converting the Tlingit culture to English words. Meaning is lost in language conversion, especially between two so very different languages such as these as opposed to, say, the closer related tongues of French and Spanish.
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