NELSON] RAVEN CREATION MYTH 457 



on Lis part, loud cries began to break from liiiu and tlie tears ran down, 

 his face as he went home. When his son saw him coming, he called to 

 his wife and mother to see Man coming along making such a strange 

 noise; when he reached them they were still more surprised to see water 

 running down his face. After he told them the story of his disappoint- 

 ment they were all stricken with the same strange ailment and began to 

 wail with him, and in this way people first learned how to cry. After 

 this the son killed another seal and they made more deer snares from 

 its hide. 



When the deer caught this time was brought home, Man told his peo- 

 ple to take a splint bone from its foreleg and to drill a hole in the large 

 end. Into this they put some strands of sinew from the deer and sewed 

 skins upon their bodies to keep themselves warm when winter came; 

 for Raven had told them to do this, so that the fresh deerskins dried 

 upon them. Man then showed his son how to make bows and arrows 

 and to tip the latter with points of horn for killing deer; with them 

 the son killed his first deer. After he had cut up this deer he placed 

 its fat on a bush and then fell asleep; when he awoke he was very 

 angry to find that mosquitoes had eaten all of it. Until this time 

 mosquitoes had never bitten people, but Man scolded them for what 

 they had done and said, " Never eat meat again, but eat men," and 

 since that day mosquitoes have always bitten x)eople. 



Where the first man lived there had now grown a large village, for 

 the people did everything as Raven directed them, and as soon as a 

 child was born it was rubbed with clay and so caused to grow to its 

 full stature in three days. One day Raven came back and sat by Man, 

 and they talked of many things. Man asked Raven about the land he 

 had made in the sky. Raven said that he had made a fine land there, 

 whereupon Man asked to be taken to see it. This was agreed to and 

 they started toward tlie sky where they arrived in a short time. There 

 Man found himself in a beautiful country with a very much better 

 climate than that on earth; but the people who lived there were very 

 small. Their heads reached only to his thigh when they stood beside 

 him. Man looked about as they journeyed and saw many strange 

 animals; also that the country was much finer than the one he had left. 

 Raven told him that this land, with its people and animals, was the 

 first he had made. 



The people living here woi'e handsomely made fur clothing, worked 

 in ornamental patterns, such as people now wear on earth; for Man, on 

 his return, showed his people how to make clothes in this manner, and 

 the patterns have been retained ever since. After a time they came to 

 a large kashim, and went in; a very old man, the first made by Ravett 

 in the sky land, came out from his place of honor at the head of the room, 

 opposite the door, and welcomed them, telling the people to bring food 

 for the guest from the lower land, who was his friend. Then boiled 

 flesh of a kind which Man had never eaten before was brought to him. 



