girl groups – qaasgha jiina

Collecting names of mythological female collectives:

• qaasgha jiina

His wife then joined him in the sea, where she gave birth to all the headwater women – those quintessential creatures known in Haida as qaasgha jiina. They are the spirit beings who draw the spawning salmon up the streams and so enable us to eat.

Robert Bringhurst, “The Humanity of Speaking,” in The Tree of Meaning

As of today, a Google search on qaasgha jiina resulted in no hits. I am often very disappointed in the Internet. I am especially bummed when one of my searches turns up a JSTOR article, which I would love to read, but I’d have to pay for it.