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form independent units among the neighboring tribes. Some of 

 these are family tales, and evidently do not belong to the Raven 

 cycle. 



I will give next a list of the explanatory tales contained in the 

 various versions, but occurring only once or twice. 



49. He finds a clam containing people Ma 324; Sk320; Hai6.30; Hai 



Dawson 1.149 B. 



50. The Beaver has a lake behind the screens of his house; Raven 



rolls up the lake with salmon trap and salmon and the house, 

 carries it away, and unrolls it in the country of man Ska 113; 

 Skff 145; Hai 6.28. 



51. Raven tells sticks to burn forever, but is unsuccessful Mb 294. 



52. He puts a woman under the world to support it, and causes her 



to make a deluge, during which the people save themselves on 

 mountains Tla 16. He drains a beaver pond, catches a beaver 

 with a hook, and uses the beaver's humerus as a support for 

 the earth Tier 20 (independent of the Raven story in Sk 190; 

 according to a note on Sk 110, it forms, however, the fourth 

 one in the series of Haida myths, the first one being that of 

 ' ' R aven Tr aveling " ) . 



53. He sends young birds to get drinking-water, which he calls ealflcl 



Tla 19. 



54. He places a woman with long breasts at the head of a creek 



Tiff 19. 



55. Raven At Head Of Nass River says that after death bad people 



are to be animals, good people are to live above TO 81. 



56. Raven claims Sculpin as his younger brother who was drowned; 



Scidpin disclaims this, saying that he is very old, and is trans- 

 formed into the Pleiades TO 106. 



57. Halibut fishermen refuse to ferry Raven across the water; ho 



extends his cane toward them, and they become a constellation 

 TO 107. 



58. He makes the West Wind, calls her QJaxo', and says that she 



shall be his son's daughter and that she shall not hurt people 

 Tla 19 (in the abstracts Tl 419 it is said that he placed the 

 West Wind on top of a mountain) . 



59. He makes South Wind and North Wind; when the South Wind 



climbs a rock, it never ceases to blow; he makes a house for 

 North Wind, with something like icicles hanging down on the 

 sides; North Wind's backside is white, therefore the moun- 

 tains are white with snow Tla 19. He lives with North Wind 

 at Taku; North Wind is proud because he is shining with 

 something like icicles T1& 89. 



60. Raven causes the water of Nass River to turn back N 15. 



61. He uproots dangerous animals on the beach; he gives to people 



sea food and animals of the forest Tla 18. 



