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He kills mountain goats for them. Finally he is put into a basket and let down. 

 He is told not to uncover his face until he reaches the ground.) Sts 5.354. 



A girl refuses her suitor. The youth sets out to seek the Face Maker. Following 

 the instructions of his grandmother, he takes fat and red ]>aint along. He follows a 

 trail indicated to him, sees smoke, and finds a hole in the ground. "When his shadow 

 is observed, the people inside think it is a cloud. He is called in, gives fat and red 

 paint to the owner, who in turn lets him select a beautiful face. He opens all the 

 chests, and the youth finally finds a face that suits him. (Here follows again an 

 incident that does not belong to our story.) The youth is warned not to go near a 

 mountain where a witch lives. He disobeys and is caught by her. In vain he tries 

 to escape. Eventually she swallows him, and he squeezes her heart, which makes 

 her sick. The Crane is asked to cure her, and the youth holds on to the bill, so that 

 Crane, when he withdraws it, falls backward. Following the advice of a slave-woman, 

 the witch is cut open, and the young man comes out. The youth and the slave- 

 woman float down the river on a raft, and he returns to his home. The girl now 

 wishes to marry him because he is beautiful, but he rejects her in the same way as 

 she had done before. She resolves to get a new face at the Face Maker's home, who, 

 however, gives her an ugly face, LkungEn Hill-Tout 7.346. 



A squint-eyed woman scratches her husband so that he loses his good looks. He 

 asks the advice of an old woman, who tells him to go to the house of a man who keeps 

 heads. ' He reaches there, and is shown many heads, and accepts the last one, which 

 is kept in a small covered box. He cuts off his own head and puts the new one in 

 its place. When he goes out, he is so beautiful that the women's heads that hang 

 on the wall ask him to marry them. On his way back he passes the house of Black- 

 Bear Woman and Crane Woman, whom he marries. Their children wish to see 

 their paternal grandfather, and he travels home with them. His former wife's son 

 laughs at the new wives. His former wife wishes to be taken back. She goes to get 

 a new head , but chooses a very ugly one. The people take her and her boy and throw 

 them into the water, where they become supernatural beings Lil 336. 



Here belongs also the story of the gambler who visits a man who provides him 

 with a new, beautiful head Sh 5.14. 



27. The Prince who Was Taken Away by the Spring Salmon 



(Inversions: Ts 192; Ts 6.81; Tl 301; Tl 311; Kai 243; Sk 7; BC 74; BC 5.266; 

 BC 5.262; H ap 886; Nu ap 919; Chil 24; Sh 690) 

 This story is exceedingly complex, its incidents being related to 

 quite a number of distinct tales. It will therefore be best to take 

 it up in parts. The incidents which occur in the various versions of 

 the story are as follows : 



I. Story of the boy who is taken away by the Salmon, lives in the 

 Salmon village; returns to his parents, who catch him in the form 

 of a salmon; and resumes human form. The story ends generally 

 with an explanation of the salmon taboos. 



II. Story of a Salmon boy who is taken back by the Salmon, and 

 who is accompanied by another person, whose experiences are the 

 principal theme of the tale. 



III. An entirely independent story, telling of the ascent of the 

 Salmon boy to the Sun, his marriage with the Sun's daughter, and 

 the tests to which he is subjected. 



The essential points of these themes, which, however, appear with 

 considerable variation, are as follows. 



1 A Tsimshian story. 



