Frogs generally represent good luck to the Northwest Coast peoples and it was not considered wise to demean or injure them. Many frog stories abound including a well-known Tlingit story about how frogs became widespread throughout the northwest. It has to do with a chiefs’ daughter who made fun of them and was tricked into going to the village of the frog people under the lake by a frog masquerading as a handsome man. She married him and bore him children and in order to get her back, her father’s village drained the lake, scattering frogs in every direction
- Richard Shortly
- The Frog Design
Frogs generally represent good luck to the Northwest Coast peoples and it was not considered wise to demean or injure them. Many frog stories abound including a well-known Tlingit story about how frogs became widespread throughout the northwest. It has to do with a chiefs’ daughter who made fun of them and was tricked into going to the village of the frog people under the lake by a frog masquerading as a handsome man. She married him and bore him children and in order to get her back, her father’s village drained the lake, scattering frogs in every direction