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heart, and starts a fire in the stomach of the animal, which dies. The Dog 

 children skin it and make animals out of pieces of the body. The brain is 

 used for making frogs Chil. The Transformer assumes the shape of a hum- 

 mingbird, flies into the elk at the back, and comes out of its mouth, thus 

 causing it to fall dead. He sits down on the antlers of the elk in his human 

 form, Lytton, Ntla. 



In Nicola Valley this story is located in the Kalispelm country, and is 



told of Coyote. The elk stands in the middle of a stream. Coyote transforms 



himself into a piece of wood, is swallowed, makes a fire in the stomach of 



the elk, cuts its heart, and eats it. He transforms the body into a common 



elk Ntlo. 



The incident of people being swallowed bj T a monster, s/hose heart 



they cut or whose body they tear', occurs in many other connections 



in this area; for example, U 282, Ntl Teit 3.349, Wish 41, Wasco 267, 



Takelma 81. It has also been treated in connection with the Raven 



tale (pp. 659, 687, 718, 868). 



5. The Origin of arrow-stone Sha 645; Shb Dawson 35; Kutenai 105. 1 



Two old women [Grizzly Bear sisters Sha] who live on Cache Creek possess 

 the arrow-stone. The Transformer makes them fight, and the stones fall off 

 their bodies. They say that if he had asked them for the stone, he would 

 not have found it necessary to make them fight Sha, b. A similar story is 

 known to the Kutenai. 



6. The origin of tobacco Sha 5.3; Sh6,c646; Ntl Teit 3.304; Chil 12. 



The Transformers reach the tobacco tree. One branch of the tree swings 

 about and kills people. Le'esa cuts it off with his stick and throws it into 

 the river. He uproots the tree with his stick Sha. 



At Pesnia'menex the Transformers find the poisonous tobacco tree. Le'esa 

 wants to smoke its leaves. He cuts down the tree with his arrow-flaker and 

 smokes, and ordains that tobacco shall not kill people Sh6. According to 

 another version, the tobacco tree falls on persons that approach it. Le'esa 

 lets it fall on his arrow-flaker She. When it falls, he puts his staff under it 

 Chil. 



In Nicola Valley a parallel story is told of Coyote. The shade of the tree 

 kills people. Coyote makes a stone pipe, plucks off leaves, and smokes 

 them. He transforms the leaves into tobacco Ntl. 



7. He kills the big-horn sheep Sha 5.3; Shb 647; Kutenai 101. 2 



On a mountain at Buonaparte Creek there is a mountain goat that kills 

 people. At the foot of the mountain there is a dog that also kills people. 

 Le'esa wants goat tallow to mix it with tobacco. He kills the dog with his 

 stick, and ordains that men shall use it. He kills the goat with his stick, 

 and ordains that it shall be eaten. His brothers take all the tallow, and leave 

 none for him Sha. He wants to eat meat of the ram, and kills it with his 

 flaker. He transforms it into an ordinary big-horn sheep. Out of its horn he 

 makes a spoon Shi. Among the Kutenai he transforms the sheep and ob- 

 tains from it. the arrow straightener. 



8. He kills the beaver Sh 648; Sh 661, 662; Ntl Hill-Tout 1.204; 



Chil 13. 



He attacks the monster beaver with his spear. After tying white bark 

 around his wrists [painting them white Sh 648], he is dragged under water. 

 nis brothers search for him in rivers and dig trenches. Finally they pull him 

 ' Franz Boas. Kutenai Tales. Bulletin 50. Bureau of Amer. Ethnology, p. 105. - Ibid., p. 101. 



