GIFT TO THE KING
MYTHICAL THUNDERBIRD BOWL FULL OF GOLD [from our own correspondent] VANCOUVER, April 10 British Columbia's jubilee gift to the King will take the fonn of a bofl, 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 amUightning by flashing "its eyes. A Nootka Indian chief assured the Spanish explorers, Galiano and Valez, that he had seen a thunderbird drop from the sky, seine 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, 11Ul-JA also acknowledged the mythical giant of the skies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22099, 3 May 1935, Page 18
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