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The story as told here differs from the preceding ones in that this 

 attempt also was unsuccessful. The salmon is eventually obtained 

 in the following manner: 



/£ meal and hia brothers make war on Salmon Maker. They go aboard the folding 

 canoe and go westward. They reach the house of the Salmon, who clubs four boys, 

 who are at once transformed into salmon (see pp. 698, 773). These are given to the 

 guests, who are requested to gather the bones and throw them into the water. Deer 

 hides a bone from the chest in his head-ring: therefore, when the boys revive, one of 

 them has no blanket-pin. The Salmon children are playing outside. The visitors 

 take them aboard and carry them away. They are pursued by the Salmon. When 

 near the coast, Deer jumps from one canoe of the pursuers into another and breaks 

 them; the salmon jump into the water and go up the rivers K 10. 



The story of the cutting-open of the Killer Whale has a parallel in the Chilcotin 

 tale of Raven and Tutq. The latter is the lover of Raven's wife. Raven searches 

 for him in order to kill him. Tutq claims to have a longer canoe than Raven; and 

 when they are comparing sizes, he seizes Raven's wife and paddles away. He 

 makes a fog, in which Raven loses his way. Raven learns from his paddle the 

 whereabouts of his wife, and goes in pursuit with Marten and Fisher, who climb 

 about in the trees. Raven tells the people that they are able to do so because they 

 have no intestines. The people submit to being cut open and die Chil 16. 



In a Tlingit tale Raven makes the Killer Whales believe that his friends have 

 canes driven into their heads. They try to have the same done to themselves and 

 are killed Tl 12, 116. 



(16) RAVEN GETS THE SOIL 



(2 versions: Ne 5.173; Ne 9.223) 



It seems that this incident is confined to the region around the 



northern part of Vancouver Island. 1 There is little doubt that it is 



related to the brmging-up of the soil which plays such a prominent 



part in the mythology of the Indians of the Northern Plains. 



(17) ORIGIX OF THE MONTHS 



In most cases this incident does not belong to the Raven tale. It 

 will be found discussed on p. 728. 



(IS) RAVEN IS MADE VORACIOUS 



This incident has been discussed on p. 636. 



(19) TXA'MSEM AND THE STEELHEAD SALMON (p. 67) 



(a) Raven Catches the Steelhead Salmon 



(13 versions: Ts67; Ts 5.277; 2 N6 52; Tla 5; T16 85; Tl 4.264; M6 298; M 347; Ska 



112; Ne 5.176; Ne 9.213; K 9.141; Co 5.73 [cited respectively Ts, Ts 5, N6, Tla, 



T16, etc.]) (See also Nez Perc<S; 3 Lil 325.) 



Raven finds a piece of jade with a design representing a human head. He puts 

 eagle down on it and places it in the ground Tla. 



He sees a steelhead salmon jumping in the sea Tb, N6, M 347 [spring salmon Tla, 

 Mb, Ska; a king salmon T16; a salmon Tl 4, Ne 5, Ne 9, K 9, Co 5]. [Instead of 



1 See also p. 641. The story is found also on Columbia River (Kath 24) and in California. It is, how 

 ever, essentially an Athapascan and eastern myth (see G. A. Dorsey and A. L. Kroeber, Traditions of 

 the Arapaho, p. 20, note). 



- The story is only implied in this passage. 



8 Herbert J. Spinden, Myths of the Nez Perc<5 Indians (Journal of A merican Foil-Lore, vol. xxi, 1908, 

 p. 18). 



