boas] COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY 733 



•A man marries the daughter of East 'Wind; later on, the daughter of North Wind. 

 The clothing of the latter is set with beautiful ornaments. The daughter of East 

 Wind makes clouds and warm weather; and the ornaments prove to be icicles, which 

 melt Tl 219. These ornaments are also referred to in Tl 19. 



There are also parallel Skidegate and Masset versions. An abstract 

 of the former is as follows: 



The North Wind marries a girl. He always turns one side of his body only to the 

 fire. One of the brothers-in-law is mischievous, and throws shavings into the fire, 

 which blazes up and makes North Wind sick. He goes off to the head of Stikine 

 River. Black clouds rise, and snow falls. The brothers-in-law go there and are 

 lost. The youngest one. who holds medicine in his mouth, spits upon h.is own body, 

 and the ice that is forming on his body falls off. He shoots the ice which is hanging 

 out of North Wind's backside, and revives his brothers by spitting on them Sk 258. 



In the Masset version (M 396) the son of North marries the daughter 

 of Southeast. 



North's father does not want to let his son marry Southeast's daughter. Finally 

 he agrees, tells him not to go near Southeast unless his face looks kindly. Southeast 

 lives in a large cloud on the ocean. North sits down by Southeast's daughter in front 

 of the house, and they are called in. The young man takes his wife home. She is 

 given limpets to eat. The floor of the house is ice. WTien going out, the woman 

 pulls an icicle off the house. These were North's lingers. The father-in-law is angry. 

 The north wind blows and it becomes cold. She cries for help. Then the southeast 

 wind begins to blow. The southeast wind melts the icicles (that is, the lingers of 

 North Wind) and breaks the floor of his house. The woman becomes the oyster-catcher. 

 Its bill is red on account of the cold, and its legs are white becausi On y u < n frozi n 



The following Lillooet story belongs here: 



Glacier, who lives in the north, marries the daughter of Chinook Wind. When 

 she starts a fire in Glacier's cold house, he melts and gives her wet wood to burn. 

 Her relatives come in the form of snowflakes to rescue her. After a contest they 

 win and take her back. Her child is a lump of ice which her brothers throw into 

 the fire, where it melts. It is ordained that winter and warm weather shall alter- 

 nate Lil 310. Hill-Tout records the same tale. He calls the husband North Wind. 

 The three brothers of South Wind go to the rescue of the woman. She does not 

 allow them to kill her husband. Her child is thrown into the water Lil Hill- 

 Tout 6.204. 



The following tale of the Thompson Indians is related to the tale 

 here discussed. 



People in the north make the cold winds when walking about. People in the 

 south make the south winds in the same way. Owing to the disagreements between 

 these people, the country is troubled by hot and cold winds. The Indians make 

 peace between the Winds, and the daughter of South Wind marries the son of the 

 North Wind. The woman visits her own relatives in the south. On her return 

 north she is accompanied by her elder brother. When Hearing the north country, 

 it grows cold. He throws his sister's child into the water, and it is transformed into a 

 flouting piece of ice. For this reason ice floats on rivers and lakes after cold winds Ntl 

 Teit 255. 



The Shuswap also entertain the idea that the north people and the south people 

 contend against each other by sending cold and warm winds. They produce the wind 

 by opening a bag. By squeezing the bag, gales are produced Sh 624. 



