772 ' TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [eth. ANN. 31 



(i a) The Boy who Is Scolded because he Has Stolen Salmon 



There is a famine in G'its!ala/sEr. The chief's son and his slave-boy are left at home 

 by their parents, who go to gather bark. The prince is making arrows, and the slave 

 cries for hunger. Therefore the prince opens the box in which his mother is keeping 

 her last large dried spring salmon, unfolds it, and gives a piece to the slave. When 

 the mother discovers this, she scolds her son. The prince feels insulted, and leaves 

 his father's house. The slave-boy tells the people what has happened. The prince 

 is looked for, but can not be found Ts 192. 



A KiksA'di of Daxe't baits a snare for gulls. When he asks his mother for food, she 

 gives him a moldy piece of salmon «T1 301. According to another version, a boy of the 

 same family at the same place plays on the beach and catches sea gulls. He is given 

 a piece of moldy salmon, throws it away, and goes back to his snares Tl 311. 



At Kasaan a boy is given a piece of moldy salmon, which he does not accept Kai243. 



During a famine a woman gives to her child a small part of a dog salmon, which he 

 throws into a swamp, where it swells up Sk 7. 



A woman scolds her husband because he gives too much seal meat to her stepson. 

 The boy ia annoyed, takes bow and arrows, and leaves his home BC 5.266. 



A man carries home from a feast food, which his son eats greedily. The father 

 scolds him and tells him to marry the daughter of the Salmon chief. The boy sulks 

 in bed and then goes out shooting birds H ap 886. 



Next follows the boy's journey to the Salmon village. 



A canoe comes up the river. The people take the boy aboard and invite him to 

 accompany them to his father. He is told to lie down, and he sleeps until they reach 

 the village. The houses are carved with representations of the spring salmon. They 

 go to the chief's house. The chief is lying sick in the rear. He has been ill for two 

 years, because his body (that is, the spring salmon) had been kept folded up in a box 

 for two years. The Mouse Woman informs the prince in the usual way that he is in 

 the Salmon village, and tells him what to do Ts 194. 



When the boy runs out to the snare, he disappears in the water. The drying salmon 

 run down with him. The Salmon people carry him away to their home. It seems to 

 him that he is traveling in a canoe. The Salmon chief makes him his son. The 

 canoe is followed by the sea gull. He stays in the Salmon village a whole year Tl 302. 



He goes to catch a sea gull and disappears in a water-hole. His parents think he is 

 drowned. The boy has been captured by the Salmon people, who take him to their 

 village. He ia always hungry Tl 311. 



He goes bathing, gets into a water-hole, and is lost. His soul is taken away by the 

 Salmon people Kai 243. 



Two persons in a small canoe come and take him along. They land at the chief's 

 house Sk 7. 



Boys are playing on the bank of a river. One of them is carried on a piece of ice to 

 the Salmon village Chil 24. 



The boy's arrow strikes a salmon-bone. He asks it to take him to the Salmon chief's 

 country. The bones ask to be thrown into the sea. The Salmon can not jump until 

 his neck-bone is thrown into the water. The boy is told not to touch the Salmon's tail 

 and dorsal fin, and is carried along. (Here follows the description of the dangers of the 

 journey, which are generally described in i c.) H ap 886. 



He shoots, and his arrow happens to strike salmon-bones, which shout, and ask to 

 be thrown into the river. When the boy finds all the fish-bones and throws them into 

 the river, the salmon is completely restored. The salmon takes the boy on board his 

 canoe and tells him to close his eyes. In this version the villages of the other animals are 

 described on the journey out to the Salmon country, not on the return journey. They 

 pass the country of the Robin, the Thrush, another bird, and of the Partridges. Here 



