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She is not careful; and when Raven comes back, he discovers the salmon between the 

 child's teeth Mc. 



/£ meal comes back, and notices that all the people look happy. When Deer 

 laughs, he finds the remains of salmon between his teeth. Thus he learns that his 

 wife fed the people K 10. 



In most versions the woman at once proceeds to produce salmon 

 at the behest of her husband. 



He asks Salmon Woman to cause salmon to appear in the brooks. In the morning 

 she puts her toes into the water, and at once spring salmon jump. Then she calls her 

 husband. On the following morning she goes into the water up to her knees, and 

 it is full of silver salmon Ts. 



In winter the Salmon Woman makes a basket and washes her hands in it. At once 

 a salmon is in it, which the people cook and eat. The house comes to be full of 

 salmon T16. 



She cooks something in a pan, and it becomes a salmon. This she gives to the 

 people to eat. Later on she creates a salmon in a dish of water, and salmon begin to 

 run in the river Mc. 



In Ska it is simply stated that salmon appear. In BC 5 there is also no statement 

 telling how the salmon were produced. 



He asks Salmon Woman to get salmon. She asks for a mat and gull feathers, swims 

 about in the river, and salmon appear. She is called 0'mag'i c ga Ri 5. 



Raven asks Salmon Woman to make salmon. She puts her little finger into the 

 water, and salmon appear. On the following morning she washes two fingers, and 

 more salmon appear. Then he asks her to put her hands into the water, and finally 

 she sits in the water, and they have plenty of salmon Ri MS. 



She asks for sea water, which is brought in a shell. She washes in it, and a salmon 

 is there, which Raven gives to his brother. He throws it into the river. The next 

 day the same is repeated, and there are four salmon. Then a weir is built Ne 5. 



The people are starving. Then the woman asks for water, throws the pickings 

 from her teeth into it, and they become salmon. She asks Mink to boil it, because 

 she can not boil her own flesh. She orders the people to throw the bones into the 

 fire. Upon Mink's request, she pulls her hair four times through the water against 

 the current, and it is full of salmon K 5. 



0' £ meal asks the woman to make salmon. The people make a salmon trap. The 

 woman puts her little finger first into her mouth, then into a kettle of water, and a 

 salmon is in it. They throw the bones into the fire. Next the woman sends for 

 water, and puts two fingers into it. There are two spring salmon in it. He asks the 

 woman to go into the river, and she says the river will then be dry. When she steps 

 into the water, it is full of salmon K 10. 



She tells him to throw fern leaves into the water, and salmon appear, which go into 

 the salmon trap K 9. 



This last version is evidently an aberrant type. The production of 

 fish from leaves appears in other connections in Kwakiutl mythology. 



When the salmon have thus been created, Raven and his people 

 catch them and dry them. 



Deer, when building his weir, disobeys his brother Raven, and catches only one 

 fish Ne 5. 



In a few versions there is introduced here an incident telling how 

 the Salmon Woman makes her husband beautiful. She combs his 



