boas] COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY 675 



Raven, a man M 347, Greedy One Ne 9, Corneal Ne 5, Mink K 9, Co 5, is supposed to 

 do this.] He kicks the rock four times, making four holes, one over another, and calls 

 the Salmon to jump against his heart. He falls down when hit, and the Salmon escapes. 

 The fourth time the Salmon falls into the hole, and Raven kills him Ts, N6, M6. 



Raven builds several stone walls in the sea, and finally catches the Salmon Ska; 

 he says to the Salmon, "Ahaiya', strike my heart with your head!" M6, M 347; he 

 calls, saying, " Hayu'!" The first time the Salmon jumps in the tide ripple, then 

 outside the kelp, among the kelp, landward from the kelp, near the rocks, on the 

 rocks, then Mink sits on him and catches him K 9. In Sk 11 the Salmon also shout, 

 "E'yo!" (Seep. 775.) 



Raven is in the company of his nephews the Crows, and invites the Salmon to 

 play with him. The Salmon refuses and jumps against Raven's stomach. Then 

 Raven makes holes and flies away. The Salmon jumps from one into another, and 

 is killed Tl 4. 



Mink says he wants to play with the Salmon, and calls him four times Co 5; he 

 tells the Salmon that Jade is calling him a thing with dirty filthy back and gills, and 

 makes the two quarrel Tla. 



In the Tlingit version, before killing him, he pretends that he has to go inland to 

 defecate. He tells the Salmon to wait, brings back a celery stalk, with which he 

 kills him. Because Raven made the Jade talk to the Salmon, people have since made 

 stone axes, picks, spears, out of it Tla. 



lie claims to be sick, asks the Salmon to jump over him, and clubs him Ne 5, Ne 9. 



It is curious to note that a version of this story occurs in Idaho, 

 quite apart from the other regions in which it has been recorded. 



Coyote is hungry and calls the Salmon. He tries to cover him with his blanket , but 

 the Salmon tears it. Advised by his supernatural helpers, he makes a hole. The 

 Salmon swims into it and he clubs it, Nez Perci. 



The following Lillooet tale probably belongs here: 



A boy says to a salmon that if he were a salmon, he would jump on the ground. 

 The salmon wants to show that he can jump, and is caught Lil 325. 



After having killed the salmon, he does not know how to cook it. 

 His excrements tell him to steam it in a hole Ts, N&. 



(b) The Stump Eats the Salmon 



(2 versions: N6 54; M6 299. See also Na 67; H 5.233) 



While he is steaming the salmon, a stump lies near the hole, and Raven makes fun 

 of it. While he goes to get skunk-cabbage leaves, which are to serve as dishes, the 

 Stump sits down on the hole and eats the salmon. Raven comes back and moves 

 the stump, but finds Ms salmon gone N6, Mb. (A similar incident is introduced in 

 Na 60 : he eats seals, makes fun of a stump, which then takes away the seal in the same 

 manner as told in the Salmon story and in the story of how Raven killed the deer 

 H 5.233. See also p. 705.) 



This incident is related to the stealing of food, discussed on p. 676. 



(c) Raven Blackens the Crows 



(4 versions : Ts 67; Tla 5; Tl 4.265; Ska 112. See also No. 20, p. 677) 



In the Tlingit version he takes all kinds of birds as his servants. "When about to 



cook the salmon, he sends them to get skunk-cabbage leaves, to be used in a hole in 



which he intends to steam it. When they bring them, he refuses them because they 



have been soiled by his wife. [In Tl 4 he says that he has cremated his wife at that 



