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can not revive him, and transforms him into a duck Quin 84. The younger 

 brother shoots a double-headed swan. When he swims out to get it, he is 

 swallowed by a monster. The elder brother throws red-hot stones into the 

 lake, making the water boil. When the lake is dried, he outs all the monsters, 

 and finds him in the last and smallest one. He blows water on his brother 

 and revives him Chin 20. This incident is also found in another connection 

 in Kath 107. 



Fk At Quinault he finds people provided with all kinds of implements 

 and weapons Quin 84. The Transformer ordains that blue- 

 back salmon shall be caught at Quinault Chin 20. 



7. At Copalishe sees a man walking upside down on his hands being 



pulled into the water by lice. He is turned right-side up, and 

 a comb is given to him Quin 85. 



8. At Copalis Kiver people walk upside down, and have .only small 



flounder-spears and short digging-sticks. He turns them 

 right-side up, and tells them that they shall always dig clams 

 and live on small fish Quin 85. 



9. At Oyhut he finds people walking upside down, with short dig- 



ging-sticks, and using their heads as hammers. They are 

 turned right-side up and given stone hammers Quin 85. At 

 Oyhut he transforms two dogs into people, Quilleyute, Far- 

 rand MS. 



10. He meets a person who dances, paddle in hand, in his canoe, in 



order to catch flounders, which jump into the canoe while he 

 is dancing. He gives him a dip-net, and shows him how to 

 catch flounders Chin 20. 



11. He meets a person whose house has no roof, and who shoots the 



rain. He shows him how to build a house Chin 20. 



12. He teaches man how to paddle Ne 5.202. 



Although this tale has been recorded from Newettee, it belongs distinctly 

 to the present group. A man paddles with arms crossed over the back; a 

 woman, with arms crossed over the chest and the paddle held under the 

 arms. He shows them how to paddle. 



L3. He carves man and woman out of wood, and brings them to life 

 by breathing on them Nu ap 913. 



14. They kill the monster woman Chin 21; Quin 82; Se 49; U 252; 

 Lil 370. 



A monster woman kills children by swinging them and throwing them 

 down a cliff. The Transformer asks her to let their dogs fight. Her dog's 

 name is Head-Eater. Their dog is called Flint-Eater. The latter cuts off 

 the head of the monster woman's dog (see No. 3, p. 611). One of the 

 Transformers asks to be thrown down. He tells children who stand below to 

 say, "Keturn to the land!" Then she swings him and throws him down. 

 He is not hurt. He revives the children below who had been killed by the 

 woman. He takes her by the hair, swings her around five times, and throws 

 her down. The children stone her and cut her to pieces. Her hair is thrown 

 inland; her legs, south of Columbia River; her ribs, up the river. There- 



