boas] COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY 605 



64. The Transformers visit Sx'iii in Sk u ts5s Stsa 5.21; Stsfr Hill- 



Tout 5.361: Lil 293. See also Lil 294; Lil Hill-Tout 6.185; 

 Sts 5.30; IT 283. 



The person is called Sxai in Stsa, S'cxei in Lil, a shaman 

 in Stsb. 



They have a contest in urinating. The shaman urinates across a mountain 

 Sts6. [When they arrive, Sx - ai puts on his bear-skin clothing and his snow- 

 shoes. The sister remains behind. They have a urinating-eontest. The 

 brothers can not reach the top of the mountain, while Sx'iii reaches across 

 and thus creates the river that runs from Silver Lake to Spuzzum Stsa.] 

 Next they induce Sxai to accompany them in his canoe down the river. 

 The Transformers call the east wind. It gets cold; the canoe fills with ice, 

 and is upset. The brothers go back to their sister's camp. Sxai escapes 

 by the help of his snowshoes Stsa. [The old man paddles them in his small 

 canoe down to the lake. They say that a monster is under the canoe; he 

 says that it is the shadow of the mountain. They say that there is a man 

 under the canoe; he knows it is his own shadow. Mink jumps into the 

 water, but fails to frighten him. Mink assumes the form of a weasel and is 

 again unsuccessful . S'cxei says that he can kill it with his paddle Lil.] Sx'iii 

 rubs some white earth between his hands, and snow begins to fall. He looks 

 in the direction whence the Transformers come, and the trail lengthens; so 

 that they are almost frozen when they reach their sister, who restores them 

 with hot oil. Sx'iii runs home quickly on his snowshoes Stsa. [When they 

 first reach his house, they talk to S'cxei as though he were a child. They 

 propose a race up a mountain. S'cxei then causes a fall of snow and runs 

 home quickly, while the Transformers reach home with difficulty Lil.] [The 

 shaman puts on his bear-skin coat, leggings, and hat, swallows bird down, 

 and whistles, in order to bring north wind : therefore it is forbidden to whistle on 

 the lake. The down blowing out of his mouth becomes snow, and the Trans- 

 formers are hardly able to go on Sts6.] S'cxei also wins a race on the beach 

 at S'a'ta by making it oppressively hot, so that the Transformers become 

 exhausted Lil [they go to S'a'ta Stso]. The Transformers ask S'cxei to go 

 with them up a mountain to gather cedar withes. The sister throws on him 

 paint which she used in her maturity ceremonies, and he becomes stone Lil. 

 [They let him smoke and put menstrual fluid obtained from their sister into 

 the pipe. They induce him to swallow the smoke, which kills him. They 

 tear out his tongue and stomach, and tear off his arms, legs, and head, which 

 become stone Stsa.] [His nose, heart, and arms become stone. If the 

 heart-stone is not treated with respect, there is wind on the lake Stsb.] 



Here seems to belong also the transformation into stone of the old woman 

 Skaiya'm, who assumed the form of a young man and married two girls Lil 

 294; Lil Hill-Tout 6.185; Sts 5.30; U 283 (see No. 26, p. 602; also p. 861). 



65. The Transformer teaches man how to catch fish Sts Hill-Tout 



5.362; Lil 294; Ntl Teit 3.318; U 227; Squ Hill-Tout 3.519. 



A man [named Stsop, who lives halfway up Lillooet Lake Lil] who lives 

 at Fort Douglas uses the frame of a dip-net [or two sticks Lil] with which to 

 catch the slime of fish. [He wipes it off with grass, and then boils it together 

 with a certain kind of grass Lil.] He wipes the slime into a basket, in which 

 his wife boils it, mixed with roots and berries. The oldest of the Transformer 

 brothers pulls out hair of his leg [below the knee Lil], which becomes mE'tsEl 

 or Indian-hemp (?) [Indian-hemp Lil]. He teaches him how to spin it and 

 make a net. He tells him to dip the net into the water twice and take a 



