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44. Arrow of the supernatural being Ts 94; BCa 5.245; BC6 4.5; 



Nu 5.105; Cow 5.46; Chil 33; Nez Perce 23; Ojibwa 49, 215. 



45. Raven invites the sea monsters Ts 100; Tic 5.317; M 316, 364; 



Ne 5.181. See also Ts 1.189; Ts 5.293; Tla 16; T16 170; 

 Ts 639. 



46. Wren kills the Bear Tla 17; Sk 362, 363; N 117; BC 5.256; II ap 



8S8; Ri 5.212; Nu ap 891; Chin 119; Quin 126; Ntl Teit 

 3.331, 342; Lil 312. 



47. Raven pulls off arm of a chief Sk/136; Co 5.78; Chil 23; Wasco 



281; Loueheux, Fort McPherson. 



48. Raven is tied in a box and kicked into the sea Tla 12, 17 ; T16 12 1 • 

 There are only a few adventures of this series that appear to have 



any kind of regular connection. Among these may be mentioned the 

 widely distributed tale of how Raven kills the spring salmon (No. 19); 

 how he uses the spring salmon in order to trick the Bear and induce 

 him to cut off part of his body and kill himself (No. 22) ; how he cuts 

 out the Cormorant's tongue in prder to prevent him from telling of 

 the way in which Bear met his death (No. 21). These incidents are 

 not always told in this connection, but it is quite striking that in a 

 number of versions they are placed near together. We find them 

 arranged in this way in one of the Nass versions (Nb) and in two 

 versions from Newettee; in part, also, in the Masset version Mb 

 and in the Tlingit versions Tla and Tl 5. In other cases, however, 

 the tales do not even stand near together in the whole series of 

 adventures of the Raven. 



Another group of tales, which has a very definite connection in the 

 Mink legend, does not form a definite unit in the northern Raven tale. 

 Among the Kwakiutl we find the incident of Raven burning his 

 sister's groins (No. 41), the obtaining of pitch (No. 23), and the war 

 against the Thunderbirds (No. 43), closely connected. 1 In the Raven 

 cycle of the Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit, the connection between 

 the first and third of these elements is generally retained, while the 

 second one does not appear in connection with this tale. Among the 

 Kwakiutl the war against the Thunderbird appears not only in this 

 setting, but also as part of the Woodpecker talc. 2 



The stories of the attempts to obtain the salmon for mankind also 

 form a group among the southern tribes (Nos. 12-15). Among the 

 Tsimsliian, Haida, and Masset, only one of these incidents occuis; 

 namely, the one telling of Raven's marriage with Salmon Woman and 

 of her disappearance with the salmon which she had created (No. 14). 

 In the southern group of tribes it is told how Raven first tries to 

 carve a salmon of wood, but is unsuccessful. Then he revives a dead 

 twin, whom he marries, and who, through her supernatural power, 

 causes the salmon to appear. He offends her by scolding the salmon, 

 and thus causes her to vanish, together with the fish — the incident 

 retained in the northern tales. Finally he makes a third attempt to 

 obtain salmon by abducting the daughter of the Salmon chief. This 



> See pp. 707 et seq. ' See p. 711. 



