animalOtterBeings · NatureOtter as an animal people have named and used. Curiosity, Community, Playfulness — one living kind, not a single symbol.Northwest Coast traditionOtter appears in Northwest Coast tradition.Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts seat land-otters among everyday and story animals of that coast. A named otter animal in that ethnography, not kushtaka as the otter-person already walked and not a European werewolf dump.from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesTlingit Myths and Texts · John R. SwantonJohn R. Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39 (1909).