GIFT TO KING
MYTHICAL THUNDERBIRD BOWL FULL OF GOLD. VANCOUVER, April 10. British Columbia’s jubilee gift to the King will take the form of a bowl, fashioned like a thunderbird and filled with nuggets of gold, to supplement His Majesty’s cancer research fund. The thunderbird is a mythical horned eagle of great strength, which caused thunder by.flapping its wings and lightning by flashing its eye. jA Nootka Indian chief assured the Spanish explorers, Galiano and Valez, that he had seen a thunderbird drop from the sky, seize a whale, and rise again. A similar legend occurs among the Indians east of the Rockies. Robert Haswell’s log of the ‘ Columbia and Adventure, 1791-92,’ also acknowledged the mythical giant of the skies.
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Evening Star, Issue 22025, 10 May 1935, Page 9
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120GIFT TO KING Evening Star, Issue 22025, 10 May 1935, Page 9
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