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not to the girls, who ordinarily did not own houses. Whatever the 

 further descent may have been, the crests were first given by the 

 Sky chief to his son's children. 



In the Asdi-wa'l tale (1.71 etseq.) the supernatural being Hats tena's, 

 or in another version (Boas 4.286, and 1.145) Ho or Hu°, in Nass 

 Houx (N 225), gives supernatural gifts to his son. Later on this 

 son, who has first taken the name Waxaya'°k, then Da-huk-dza'n, 

 gives these supernatural gifts to his son (243, 1.143). 



The lake-being Dzaga-di-Ia'°, the father of GunaxnesEmg'a'd (1 .165 

 et seq.), gives bow and arrows, an otter club, and a copper canoe, as 

 well as his son's future name, to his wife for their son. Later on the 

 young man invites all the sea monsters, who come to his potlatch 

 wearing their crests, and he then takes the name Y!aga-k!une'°sk, 

 which "staid among his relatives" in the Kaven Clan. 



A rather characteristic story, although not a clan story, strictly 

 speaking, is that of the Otter prince who abducted a woman. His 

 wife returns to her father, taking her Otter son along, and the latter 

 is so successful a hunter that her father becomes very rich (171). 



Here belongs also the story of the girl who is married to a Spider 

 man, and whose mother is taught by him the art of making nets (158). 



In another tale a girl marries the Devil's-Club (Fatsia Twrrida), 

 and her son obtains gifts partly from his father, partly through his 

 own exploits. In this tale it is stated that the young man married 

 his uncle's daughter and had a son; but nothing is said about the 

 transmission of his powers, which, according to the customs of the 

 tribe, should have been given to his sister's son (172 et seq.). 



In the tale 243 et seq. we learn of the son of a supernatural being 

 who is taken back by his mother to her father, but nothing is said 

 about the transmission of his powers. 



In the tale of the water-being who married a princess (272), a girl 

 is abducted by a water-being. A son is born to them, and then the 

 young woman's father-in-law asks a river to send her a daughter. 

 Eventually the children return to their mother's tribe, where the 

 young man takes his uncle's place, but retains the powers that he 

 had received from his father. He invites the sea monsters to a feast 

 in two houses he has built, and receives from them the carving of a 

 starfish covered with abalone shell for one house, a bullhead with 

 live children on its back and abalone shells in the eyes and fins for 

 the other one (277). 



The idea of the gifts of the father-in-law to his son-in-law's family 

 (presented, however, through the daughter to her husband) seems to 

 me to appear with great clearness in the tale of Tsauda, who gives 

 the secret of copper- working in this manner to his son-in-law (306). 



Following are a number of stories of the second type: 



A chief kills the sea monster Haklula'q, and takes her for his crest 

 His nephews marry and obviously inherit the crest. 



