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carries him into his nest, where the Transformer kills him with his arrow- 

 flaker. The eaglets carry him down, and he pulls out their wing and tail 

 feathers Sh 649. This incident is also referred to briefly in Ntla. In both 

 the Thompson and Shuswap versions the skunk and eagle incidents are con- 

 iicrtcd. When the Dog Transformer needs feathers, hemakesacoatof moose 

 .skin. Two eagles carry him up into their eyry. He ties a stone to the foot 

 of one, the heavy weight makes the eagle tired, and he kills it with his staff 

 when it returns. The mother and the young ones are also killed, except the 

 last one, which carries him down, and is then transformed into a regular eagle 

 Chil. The Transformer is put into a basket by his brothers. lie takes some 

 white and red paint in his mouth. An eagle carries up the basket and lets 

 it drop, in order to kill the Transformer. By squirting the red and white 

 paint on the ground, he makes the eagle believe that he is dead. He is 

 carried into the nest, seizes the eaglets, who carry him down. He shakes 

 the bones out of their bodies, and orders his brothers to put on the skins Ntlfc. 



At Spences Bridge this story is told independently. Wren, who lives at 

 the mouth of Nicola River, covers himself with birch-bark armor, puts red 

 and white paint in his mouth, is lifted by Eagle, who dashes him against the 

 cliff. The Eagle tries to break through his armor; and while he is doing so, 

 Wren stabs him and transforms him into an eagle. The cliff where this 

 happened, about half a mile east of Spences Bridge depot, is marked with 

 red and white streaks Ntlc. 



A similar incident occurs in the Wren story Ntltf. A boy puts on birch 

 bark for protection, is carried by eagles into their nest, and pulls out their 

 feathers, which he needs for his arrows. 



12. Woman with toothed vagina Sha 650; Shb 5.1; She Dawson 32; 



U 221; Chil 13. See No. 63, p. 604; 773; 809. 



At Pavilion Creek lives Tsakelsxene'lxa, who kills men with her toothed 

 vagina. Le'esa breaks out the teeth with his arrow-flaker Sha. The Dog 

 Transformer passes through the same adventure Chil. The Transformers 

 meet a woman whose privates are [the mouth of J a rattlesnake. One of them 

 chews a leaf, spits on her privates, and thus transforms her into an ordinary 

 woman U. At Ducks he sees a woman singing on a rock. As he climbs up, 

 she retires upward. He gathers pine cones. When he reaches her, many 

 rattlesnakes attack him, which he kills with his pine cones. He transforms 

 her into an ordinary woman Slit. Two bad women dancing on a cliff trans- 

 form into stone those who look at them. The Transformers change them into 

 stone She. 



13. The Transformers make hollows in a rock Sha 5.4; Shh Dawson 



32; She 649; Ntl Teit 2.45. 



In a trial of strength the Transformers carry a rock on their heads. Attempt- 

 ing to move it aside, the head of the youngest one slips into the rock. In 

 another version they push their heads into the rock, and the youngest makes 

 the deepest impression Ntl. The brothers Le'esa and Tkumenaa'lst try who 

 can make the deeper impression in a rock. Le'esa penetrates down to the 

 ears; Tkumenaa'lst, to the shoulders Sha. In the version Sh6 the place is 

 given near the mouth of Hat Creek, and Kwilie'lt is more successful than 

 Le'esa and Tkumenaa'lst. According to She the test was made a little above 

 the mouth of Hat ('reek by the brothers and Le'esa, who pushed in his head 

 to the ears. He left a red mark in the cavity. 



