782 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [bth. ann. 31 



house. The young man declines. The slave-girl returns several times, and finally 

 he gives her some of the red ocher, but declines to hutI the ehieftaine--s. The woman 

 then rubs the paint on her face, and tells her husband that the youth has done violence 

 to her. The chief orders the door locked and the brothers slain. Their bodies are 

 thrown behind the house. [The first wife sends a slave-boy (evidently an error in 

 place of a slave-girl) to ask for some of the red paint. The young man sends it to her 

 reluctantly. In order to attract her husband's attention she pretends to be embar- 

 rassed. She says that the youth has given it to her. The chief becomes jealous and 

 kills the ten brothers Ts 5. The first wife sits in the corner of the house weeping for 

 her dead child. She has pitch on her face. In the night she goes to the bed of the 

 middle one of the brothers, who has his face painted and his hair covered with down. 

 She rubs herself against it. When the chief sees this, he takes to his bed with grief. 

 The brothers leave. Later on the chief invites them to visit him; and when they 

 are asleep, he pours boiling water over them and kills them. The bodies are placed 

 under the trees Sk 348.] 



Since the young wife is now poor, the chief has no regard for her. Every day the 

 young woman goes into the woods with her child to wail. [The bodies of her brothers 

 are laid in a row in the woods. The gambling-utensils are placed next to them. 

 Cedar bark is placed under their heads. Their faces are covered with gambling- 

 mats Ts 5.] The chief's people make fun of her in the house. The chief tells them 

 to trip her. 'When she falls, they laugh at her, and she creeps to her bed in the corner 

 of the house. [The people make fun of her and trip her. One day she falls down 

 the three steps of the house. The first wife of the chief pretends to pity her and 

 places her next to herself Ts 5.] This is repeated ever}' day. She has nothing to eat, 

 and only wishes to die. One day after weeping all day, she opens her eyes. There, 

 is a flash of lightning, and a youth appears, who asks her what ails her. She tells 

 him. [She weeps with closed eyes. When she opens them, there is a stroke of light- 

 ning, and a youth appears Ts 5.] The youth says, "My father the Sun sent me because 

 he is displeased with your weeping." He gives her his own leggings, snowshoes, and 

 moccasins, tells her to throw them down in front of the chief, and to say, "See what 

 happens to the leggings and snowshoes of those whom you murdered !" He tells her 

 that there will be a stroke of lightning, that the chief will call his people, and that 

 all will come except Disbeliever, who is blind. When the chief sends for him, the 

 youth will take his form. He will be taken to the house, and she is instructed to 

 leave at that time. [He asks for one pair of leggings of one of the brothers, shakes 

 them, throws them down, and fire appears. He instructs her as in the other version, 

 except that she is merely told to run away when Disbeliever enters Ts 5.] When she 

 returns, she steps right up to the chief, who is surprised that his wife does not go along 

 the wall of the house. He tells the people not to trip her. She throws the leggings 

 down in front of him, and there is a stroke of lightning, and all happens as foretold 

 by the supernatural youth. Disbeliever, on entering, feels of the bundle that the 

 supernatural youth had made and makes fun of it. He opens the bundle, strikes 

 the ground, but nothing happens. He puts on leggings and snowshoes, runs around 

 the lire, there is a stroke of lightning, and everybody is burned Ts. [The people talk 

 about what has happened all night. Disbeliever will not be convinced. On the 

 next morning all are called to the house. Disbeliever refuses to go. He makes fun 

 of an old man who is going. Finally he goes, puts on the leggings, fire appears, and 

 all the people are destroyed Ts 5.] 



The woman sits by the side of the bodies. The supernatural youth jumps over 

 each of them four times, and all revive. They move inland, and become the 

 TslEts'.a'ut. [The supernatural youth steps four times over their bodies, all revive 

 and rub their eyes as though they had slept. They return to their own village, and 

 the people who had put on black paint as a sign of mourning put on red paint Ts 5.] 



