nois] TSIMSHIAN MYTHS 323 



Before dark one of the young men went home, and three staid 

 there. After a while another of the young men went home, and two 

 staid there. After a while still another one went home, and one, 

 who loved the prince most, still remained. 



When it was very dark, this young man feared that the ghosts 

 would come and take him. Therefore he ran down to his house; 

 and all the young men, as soon as they reached then- home, forgot 

 what had happened to them and to their prince in the graveyard. 



Late at night the chief, the father of the prince, and his wife, 

 inquired for their only son. Then the prince's friends remembered 

 what had happened as they were passing the graveyard, and how the 

 prince had insisted on lying down in the open colli n. 



Therefore the chief ordered his great tribe to light their torches 

 and to go to the graveyard on the same night. Therefore all the 

 people lighted their torches of pitch wood and maple bark and torches 

 made of olachen. They set out for the graveyard, and found the 

 body of the prince lying in the open coffin. They took it away and 

 carried it down to the chief's house. There were many people. They 

 placed him on a wide board in front of the large fire in his father's 

 house. 



The prince's heart was still beating. Therefore his father asked 

 all the shamans from the other tribes to come. He told them what 

 had happened to his son; and he said that he wanted to have his only 

 son come back to life, and that therefore he had called them all. 

 Thus said the chief, and promised them a rich reward if they could 

 restore his son to life. 



So they began to dance. Each of the shamans put his charms on 

 the dead prince; and finally, when the various charms had been put 

 on him, he came back to life. The shamans had been working over 

 him for four days and four nights. Then each received his reward, 

 as the chief had promised before. 



Now the prince had become a great shaman, because he was filled 

 with the charms of the different shamans, and because he had pre- 

 tended to be a shaman ever since his boyhood ; and his four friends 

 were his attendants, and always went before him. 



After a short time one of his father's people died — the head man 

 of his father's tribe. Then the prince said to his father, "I will go 

 and restore him to life." The father said, "My son, can you do 

 that?" 



The prince put all the carved bones around his neck. He put on his 

 crown of grizzly-bear claws and put on his dancing-apron, took his 

 rattle in Ids right hand and the white eagle tail in his left. He black- 

 ened his face with charcoal, and strewed eagle down on his head. 

 Then he went with his four attendants, and went to the house where 

 the dead one was. All the people of the village came to the house. 



