boas] COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSIMSI1IAX MYTHOLOGY 613 



out. Beaver is transformed into an ordinary animal Sh 648. He ties white 

 i bark in his hair before spearing the beaver, and is dragged under. The Dog 

 children follow him, and find the beaver dead. The dog had been swallowed, 

 and had cut the heart of the beaver. Fishes are made of the beaver flesh 

 Chil. The eldest brother wants to eat beaver tails. The youngest drinks 

 the beaver lake empty, and kills the beavers as they run out of their holes. 

 He asks for the beaver eyes, which he wears as a head-ring Ntl. — In another 

 connection Bluejay ties white bark around his wrists and ankles and attacks 

 a lake monster Sh 661, 662. 



9. He kills the marmot (hush-tail rat) Sha 648; ShJ 5.1; Ntl Teit 

 2.46; Chil 12. 



The Transformers go to kill the marmot. Le'esa kills two young ones and 

 puts them into his belt. The Marmot is in the habit of killing people by 

 letting the door of his house crush them. Le'esa keeps the door open with his 

 arrow-flaker, and transforms the marmot into an ordinary animal Sha. He 

 follows the woodchuck into its hole, which he spreads by putting his lance 

 across. He slays it with a hammer hanging down from his wrist. The 

 brothers eat all the meat. He transforms the monster animal into a wood- 

 chuck Sh6. In the Thompson version there is a long introduction telling 

 how the Bush-Tail Rat was in the habit of stealing provisions, and excused 

 himself by saying that his younger brother, the Long-Tailed Mouse, gave 

 him provisions. A fight ensues, in which the people are killed. The Rat 

 moves away, and then follows the story referred to here Ntl. The Dog Trans- 

 former wants to make a tobacco-pouch. He enters Marmot's house, and finds 

 inside a woman weaving a basket. When the stone door begins to close, he 

 holds it up by means of his staff, jumps out, but when he pulls out his staff, 

 his little finger is squeezed off. Therefore the fourth Jhujer is short Chil. 



10. Encounter with a skunk Sha 649; Sh6 Dawson 35; Ntl Teit 2.45. 



The Transformer kills Skunk, whose bag he empties into a lake. For this 

 reason the water of the lake is discolored Sha. Skunk, who kills people, 

 discolors a lake by squirting his fluid into it. The Transformers change the 

 monster skunk into an ordinary animal Ntl. Skunk, who is married to 

 Short-Tailed Mouse, lives at Pavilion Lake. The Eagle steals Skunk's wife. 

 Skunk pursues them, and reaches them while they are sitting on a cliff. He 

 sees their reflection in a lake, thinks they are in the water (see p. 741), and 

 shoots at the water with his fluid She. 



11. Encounter with the Eagle Sh 5.4; Sh Dawson 32; Sh 649; Ntk 



Teit 2.45; Ntlfr Hill-Tout 1.213; Ntlc Teit 3.340; Nthi Teit 

 2.75; Chil 12. 



The Transformer sits down under an eagle's eyry on a cliff. He has red 

 and white paint in his mouth. His purpose is to get eagle feathers. The 

 eagle carries him up and tries to knock him against the rock. He puts his 

 staff against the cliff and spits out red paint. When the eagle repeats it. lie 

 spits out white paint. The brothers believe that this is his blood and his 

 brains. He is carried into the nest, and threatens to kill the young eagles 

 . with his hammer. He orders them to tell the mother eagle to sit on the edge 

 of the nest. There he clubs her and throws her clown. The brothers take 

 her feathers; the eaglets carry him down Sh 5. He gets paint from Adams 

 Lake. He is carried up into the nest, as described before, and kills the 

 eagles when reaching their nest. The eaglets carry him down and arc trans- 

 formed into normal eagles Sh Dawson. He meets the cannibal eagle, who 



