690 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [hth.ann. 31 



Blave to announce the arrival of the chief with abalone ear-ornaments. The slave 

 finally does so after a number of mistakes Ts. Later on they arrive at another village, 

 and the same is repeated Ts. 



Kaven wants to go to war, and makes a slave, K''ixo'm. They go to the house of 

 Chief X-rno'gut, who refers to Raven's scab-eating (see p. 636) N6. 



Raven shakes a .raspberry bush and transforms it into a slave, whom he calla 

 Kits'ino Tl 5. 



Raven eats leavings cut off from salmon, and the salmon milt hangs out of his nose. 

 He tells Eagle to say that a person with a weasel hanging from his nose is going about, 

 but Eagle shouts that it is salmon milt Skd. 



Raven meets Butterfly, who sits on top of a mountain. Butterfly has a big stomach, 

 and offers to be Raven's servant Ma 314. 



Raven travels with Butterfly. Salmon heads hang from his nose. He asks Butter- 

 fly to say that they are weasels, but Butterfly disobeys, and they are refused admit- 

 tance to the house they want to visit Mc. 



This part of the story is evidently related to the Kwakiutl tale of 

 Mink making a slave of excrement. He has killed Land Otter, and 

 demands of his slave that he say he is the son of Ho'stamii ("the 

 innumerable ones;" that is, the Ghosts). 



The slave disobeys K 5.159. In two other versions he makes the slave out of his 

 musk-bag, and the same happens K 9.159, K 11.131. The same incident occurs in 

 the Skunk story U 234. 



{b) The Slave Eats Food Offered to Raven 

 (7 versions: Ts 73; Ts 5.276; N6 39; Tl 5.315; Ma 314, 32S; M6 296) 

 Here begins the second part of the story, telling how they are 

 invited by a chief, and how the slave pretends that Raven does not 

 want to eat the food offered to him. 



They are asked into the house. The chief offers them berries, and Raven asks his 

 slave to say that he wants them. The slave, however, says that Raven does not want 

 them, and eats them alone. The same happens with salmon that is offered to him Ts 5. 



They are asked into the house, given dried salmon and crabapples mixed with 

 oil. Again Raven says that he wants them, but the slave says he does not want 

 any, and eats them alone Ts, No. 



Raven is offered food, but the slave says that he does not want to eat it. The slave 

 alone eats, and Raven remains hungry Tl 5. 



Raven asks for food, but Butterfly repeats his request, saying that he is not hungry 

 Ma 328. 



Raven and Butterfly enter the chief's carved house. The chief's wife asks, ' ' Wha I 

 will the chief's son eat? " and offers him black cod. Raven tells Butterfly to 'accept, 

 but Butterfly says that Raven does not know how to eat it. Finally Butterfly says 

 the chief's son wishes some dried salmon, and he received burnt skins and dried 

 salmon. He eats it weeping. Another version is here mentioned, according to whii h 

 Butterfly, on behalf of his chief, accepts dried salmon soaked in urine. The slave 

 also refuses crabapples mixed with grease, dried berries, and cranberries and grease, 

 all of which the slave eats alone \V> 



(c) Raven Pretends to Die 



(2 versions: Ts 73; Tl 5.315) 



The third incident tells of Raven's pretended death. 



He sees a house full of codfish, and tells his slave that he will pretend to die. He 

 says that codfish oil will drop into his eye, and that the slave is then to instruct the 



