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72. The Transformers and the Salmon Women. 



The Transformers meet two Salmon Women who own a weir which ] ire- 

 vented the salmon from going up the river. They own five boxes containing 

 wasps, flies, mosquitoes, wind, and smoke. The Transformer makes a 

 wooden dish, which he throws into the water, and causes the river to break 

 the dam. The Transformers let out the insects, wind, and smoke. The two 

 women are transformed into rocks Ntl Hill-Tout 1.207. This story belongs 

 properly to the Coyote cycle. In Ntl Teit 2.27 it is said that the Trans- 

 formers broke the weir which belonged to Coyote. 



73. The Transformers cross the river in a canoe made of horse tail 



U221. 



74. The cannibal tries to boil the Transformers in a kettle Ntl Teit 



3.316 (see p. 808). 



75. The Transformers make a spring, which becomes a training- 



place for girls Ntl Teit 3.316. 



76. Why the Lillooet go trading east and west. 



The Transformers take a rest at the source of the stream that empties into 

 Anderson Lake. One of them travels south, the other one east. They bring 

 back various kinds of trade material. For this reason the Lillooet do the 

 same. One of them stamps his foot on the rock. The footprint marks the 

 tribal boundary between the Upper and Lower Lillooet Lil 296. 



77. The jealous husband. 



Swan, and his wife Crane, live on Lillooet River. Swallow, who passes by, 

 tells that his wife has died. He has put her on top of a tree and left her 

 there to die, because she had a lover. Swan takes her down. She is trans- 

 formed into blackberries; and Swan ordains that Swallow shall become a 

 bird and search for his wife Sts 5.21 (see p. 849). 



78. The modest hunter and the arrogant hunter Cow 5.46 (see 



No. 44, p. 716). 



TRANSFORMER MYTHS OF THE SHTJSWAP AND CHILCOTIN 



The following group of tales does not seem to occur on the coast, 

 but is known principally in the region of the upper Fraser and 

 Thompson Kivers, among the Chilcotin, and partly among the Kutenai 

 and Thompson Indians. 



1. On his travels the principal Transformer carries an arrow-flaker 



[a pole Chil 11], with which he kills monsters Sh 645. 



2. The Transformers, before starting, are warned against dangers 



Sh 645, 647; Chil 14. 



The mother of the Transformers warns them against monsters, but forgets 

 to tell them about the adolescent girl, which causes their final transformation 

 Sh 645, 647. Their mother forgets to warn them against the bear Chil 14 

 (see also No. 17, p. 615). 



3. The Transformer kdls the Grizzly Bears Sha 645; Sh& 5.2: Ntla 



5.16; Ntli Hill-Tout 1.214; U 223; Chil 13. 



The Transformers visit the four cannibal Grizzly Bears and Coyote. Le'esa 

 becomes a dog, with arrow-points for hair, spear-points for teeth, and a knife 



