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127. He sees Ninstints people perform magical feats, therefore there 



are many sorcerers among them Ska 112. 



128. He makes human beings of rotten wood, and causes them to 



limp by making their limbs of different lengths Kai 8.237. 



129. He makes hermaphrodites Kai 8.238. 



130. Raven wants man to have the privates on the forehead; his 



intentions are defeated Nu 5.108. 



131. He invites little people to a feast, lets them sit on a bear skin; 



they call the places without hair swamps; he shakes the skins 

 over the fire, and the little men become pupils of eyes Tla 18. 



132. He creates the various races of man Tla 19. 



133. He teaches the people their mode of life (feasts, slavery, sha- 



manism, death rituals, halibut fishing, making of fish traps, 

 seal-spears, canoes, salmon-hooks) T\b 84. 



134. He institutes war by telling people to fight T1& 85. 



135. He shows the people a charm enabling them to get home when 



out canoeing Tla 19. 



136. Raven teaches river taboos, forbidding that sea animals be 



called by their right names Tib 89. 



137. He teaches the Chilkat how to make, storehouses for salmon and 



how to trade with the inland tribes Tib 89. 



138. He teaches the use of tobacco T16 89. 



139. He does not come at once when invited to a feast, and is then 



ignored by the host; later on he gives a feast and institutes 

 the feast customs T16 117. 



140. He learns how to make nets BC 5.246. 



141. Raven learns how to cook olachen Ts 66. 



142. He teaches ceremonials BC 97. 



143. He gathers herring spawn on hemlock branches Ts 774; Sk/ 135. 



144. He finds the first abalone shell, makes it into an ear-ornament, 



and shows it to the people Ma 313. 



145. His child dies, and he forbids people to laugh; Greatest Laugher 



disobeys, therefore people soon cease to mourn Ma 313. 



146. He takes a girl to be his sister, and when she is menstruant he 



places her behind a cedar board Ma 314; Kai 8.237. 



147. He causes his sister to gather Crow's hair-seal; he himself gathers 



sea eggs; therefore the former are not eaten, the latter are a 

 favorite food Ma 317. 



148. He says canoes shall not capsize; but when two large waves 



come, he rides on shore on the first one, and is capsized by the 

 second one, therefore people capsize Ma 326. 



149. He assembles the Tsimshian and establishes their clans Ma 323. 



150. He digs a lake and a river running out of it; he ordains that 



canoes shall always upset in that river Ma 325. 



151. He gives a feast to supernatural beings Tl 5.317 (see also p. 581, 



No. 224). 



