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the women follow, picking them up. They lead across a lake, which the sisters cross 

 in Frog's skin. After reaching the ogre's house they have a sliding-match. The 

 sisters slide down into a lake the water of which becomes red from red and white 

 paint that they spit into it. Then thev promise to make the ogre's hair grow. They 

 put pitch on her head and heat it with hot stones. They hold their own hair in front 

 of her face to make her believe that it is growing. The fourth hot stone that is put 

 on burns through her head and kills her Lil 370. 



The Uta'niqt call the monster Xe'niax. Two sisters marry Owl and Eagle. Owl's 

 child is Frog, Eagle's a boy. The men are captured by Xe'niax. Eagle's son is left 

 in the house playing with bow and arrows and a miniature fawn. The sisters carry 

 Frog along. They follow the line of feathers which Owl and Eagle have plucked out 

 and dropped along the trail. They follow the line of feathers across a lake and reach 

 Xe'niax. In place of the sliding-contest there is a struggle between the sisters and 

 Xe'niax, who tries to throw them down a cliff. Frog saves them by pushing them 

 back when Xe'niax tries to throw them down. Then follows the burning of Xe'niax, 

 as told before U 252. 



Among the Kathlamet and Wishram the incident occurs in the 

 Raccoon tale. 



Raccoon steals the contents of his grandmother's caches. She strikes his face 

 with a iirebrand. He climbs a tree, and throws fruits into which he has put thorns 

 down into his grandmother's mouth. She cries for water and is transformed into a 

 bird. Raccoon begins to travel, and enters Grizzly Bear's house. Grizzly Bear asks 

 him who painted his face so nicely, and wishes to be painted too. Raccoon replies 

 that he was hit with a chisel and that pitch was poured over his face. Bear lies on 

 his back and is scared; but, on being encouraged, he lets Raccoon strike him and 

 pour pitch over his face. After this he is told to jump into the water. Grizzly Bear 

 pursues him, and the story takes up other incidents Kath 146. 



Grizzly Bear asks Raccoon how he got the stripes on his nose. He answers that 

 he poured pitch and urine over himself. Grizzly Bear asks to be treated in the same 

 way, lies down, and is hit with an adze Wish 163. 



Among the Upper Chinook the story belongs to the At!at!a'lia 

 cycle. 



Coyote hears that At!at!a'lia and Owl are stealing people. He ties rushes all over 

 his body, so that it makes a rattling noise. The ogre asks him how he managed to 

 become that way. After some resistance, he tells her that he put pitch over his 

 body and then burned himself. She asks to be treated in the same manner. They 

 go to the ogre's oven, in which she is baking children, who are sitting there by twos. 

 He sends the mourners to get pitch. It is rubbed over the ogre's body and over 

 her eyes. He pushes her into the oven. The people hold her down with forked 

 sticks, and she is burned. He tells her that she must stand the heat until he in- 

 forms her that it is enough. After this follows another incident. Owl, the hus- 

 band of the ogre, appears, bringing some more people. Ashes are throw over him. 

 He becomes gray and is transformed into an owl Wish 37. 



Coyote puts broken shells into his leggings, whicli rattle when he dances. The 

 At!at!a'lia questions him, and he says that he had his leg-bone broken on a rock. 

 The At!at!a'lia is afraid, but eventually submits and is changed into a rock, Wasco 

 285. 



This story has a very much wider distribution in North America, 

 and I give a few examples. 



The Rabbit has been taken by the Eagle to his eyry. There the young E;iglos 

 ask him, "O elder brother! of what sort is the way you do that?" The Rabbit 



