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Another version of the same tale has been recorded in Ne 9. He goes to abduct 

 the wife of the Killer Whale. His younger brothers accompany him. Mien he 

 reaches the house of the chief, he meets a slave. When the Killer Whale returns, 

 O'^meai hides in the house post . 0"meal's brothers are called in, and the chief says 

 that they are very pretty. /£ meal offers to remove the chief's stoutness; and when 

 the chief is afraid, (('-"meal tells BufHehead Duck, one of his brothers, to lie down. 

 He cuts him open, and lets Harlequin Duck get up from under a mat in his place, so 

 that the Killer Whale believes that his stoutness has been removed. He then kills 

 the Killer Whales' and takes away the chief's wife, the daughter of the Salmon 

 chief. When he gets near land, he tells the salmon to go to the different rivers. 



The Kwakiutl version K 9 is not connected with the story of the reviving of the 

 twin woman. After Raven has made the salmon, he goes with his tribe under water 

 to the Salmon country. When they reach the chief's house, K!wek!waxa'we e pre- 

 pares a tree so that the Salmon chief's slave should try to cut it down. Then follows 

 the story of the slave, as before. The girl's father discovers K!wek!waxa'we £ in his 

 daughter's room and calls him down. He tries to kill him on the death-bringing 

 settee, which is set with squid bones 9.173 (see p. 799). Klwek! waxa'we £ overcomes 

 this test by putting a sandstone on his back. The chieftainess sends her daughters 

 to play in the water, and they become sockeye salmon. 2 The guests are asked to 

 throw the clothing of the girls into the water. K!wek!waxa'we £ retains the collar- 

 bone, which he hides behind his ear. The bones are thrown into the water, and 

 the girls reappear, but one has no blanket-pin. Then follows the story of the killing 

 of the parents of Salmon Woman (9.175) as told in Ne 9. The Salmon follow their 

 chieftainess; and when they approach the land, Deer jumps into the Salmon canoes, 

 breaks them, and the people become salmon, which are sent up the rivers. 



The fullest version has been recorded from the Na/k!wax'da £ x u K 10. /£ meal 

 goes with his brothers to marry the daughter of Killer Whale. Before startint:, he 

 takes aboard some ocher, stones, lime, and charcoal. When near the chief's house, 

 he hides these on shore. He meets the slave of Killer Whale, who is about to cut 

 down a tree. Here follows the same incident that has been referred to before. He 

 asks the slave to put the fagot in which he is hidden on top of the fire. The girl car- 

 ries in this log, and he embraces her. This is repeated four times, and every time she 

 throws away the log. When put on top of the fire, he scatters it, and, without being 

 seen, enters the room of the chief's daughter. The girl asks him who he is, and, upon 

 learning his name, she says that her father, who is absent, wants her to marry him. 

 After four days the Killer Whale comes back, finds /£ meal, and calls him to the 

 center of the house. He is told to call his friends, who launch their canoe and go to 

 the village. The chief asks his attendants to drive a stake into the floor of the house, 

 to which /£ meal is tied. A fire is made in order to burn him, but /£ meal hides in 

 the stake. The following day he is tied to two stakes, but escapes again (see p. 806). 

 Killer Whale sends his attendants to kill seals for a feast. After the seals have 

 been brought in, he tells /£ meal that they will get stones for boiling seals. These 

 stones are found only in Knight Inlet and on Skeena River. Killer Whale is to go 

 north; 0' £ rneal, south. The chief wants to see who will be back first. /£ rneiil takes 

 the ocher, lime, and charcoal, goes aboard the canoe, and becomes a Killer Whale. He 

 spouts alternately red, white, black, and white and red mixed. He goes to his canoe 

 and gets the stones which he has brought along. The people see that the stones are 

 really from Knight Inlet. In the evening the Killer Whale chief comes back. Next 

 follows the tale how the stoutness is removed from the Killer Whales. BufHehead 

 ' Duck and Harlequin Duck are used to induce the Killer Whale to submit (see 

 p. 7G2). Then 0' e meal takes the young woman home. They are pursued by dolphins. 

 /£ meal becomes frightened and throws his wife overboard 10.330 el seq. 



'Seep. 7fi2. 2 See pp. 698, 773. 



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