COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSIMSIIIAN MYTHOLOGY 



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(2) The youth marries a girl that has been kind to him. 



(3) The people are killed and transformed into stones. 



(4) A whale kills the people. 



(5) All the people are fed except the youth's parents. 



(6) The food given to the people can not be exhausted. 



These incidents appear in the following combinations: 



Tsa 225, Tsa 5 300. X 109 



Sk35G 



M 415 



Hap 885 



M705 



M400 



Skl73 



Tl 202 



BC 5.263 



Chil 7 



Nu 5.114 



K 5.132, Co 5.92 . . . 

 Ne 9.249, Ne 5.180 . . 



Cow 5.51 



Squ Hill-Tout 3.532 . 



St.s5.19 1 



Quin 127 



Chin 51 



V(l) 



V(2) 



V(2) 



V 2) 

 V(l) 

 V(4 

 V(3) 

 V(5) 



V 3) 

 V(3) 

 V(6) 

 V(4) 



V 5 



V 6) 

 V(2) 

 V(5) 



At the G'id-wul-ga/dz town at Sandbar (Tsa, b ) live a chief and his four brothers-in- 

 law. His only son is chewing kidney-fat all the time Tsa. [There is a prince whose 

 father is dead; his mother has four brothers; the oldest one is the chief Ts6; a chief's 

 son lives in a village N; there is a prince who had ten uncles Sk 356.] The boy sits on 

 the roof and makes arrows Tsa [makes bow and arrows N]. The people go to fish hump- 

 back salmon. The boy and his little slave go to a sandbar, catch salmon, and give 

 them to the eagles. When the eagles are fat, their feathers drop off, and he gathers 

 them Tsa. [While the people are fishing, the boy does not pay any attention to the 

 salmon. He plays with tliree slaves. His uncles order him to help, but he refuses. 

 He steals the gills of salmon, which he uses as bait for catching eagles. He builds a 

 small house of cedar bark, such as are used as eagle traps. He takes the feathers of the 

 eagles Ts6. The chief orders the people to fish salmon. The boy puts a salmon on 

 the sand to attract eagles, pulls out their feathers, which he gathers N. The boy fills 

 his canoe with salmon, which he uses to feed eagles on a sandbar. The people come 

 to know about it Sk 356. The Masset version opens in a slightly different way. An 

 eagle lives on Mountain Island in Nass River. A boy goes fishing in his canoe. When 

 an eagle calls, he leaves his salmon for it and is scolded. He repeats this several times, 

 and the people resent it M415. A chief's son, Iaxdze, goes fishing with other boys. 

 They make a fish weir and catch salmon. They string them on a rope, but forget to tie a 

 knot at the end , so that the salmon drops off. This annoys the boy's father. The eagle 

 picks up the salmon and takes those that the boy left in the river H ap 885.] The boy has 

 boxes full of arrows Tsa [two boxes of arrows Ts6; many boxes of feathers N]. [The 

 boy's mother looks after the youngest uncle's wife, therefore the boy picks crabapples 



i This story is practically identical with the various versions ot the tale ot the Sun and the boy of the 

 inland Salish Lil 296,354, 355; Lil Hill-Tout 6.201; U 230; Ntl 5.17; Ntl Teit2.51; Ntl Teit 3.367. A 

 strongly modified form is given in Sh 710. The relationship between this tale and Ne 5.194 has been dis- 

 cussed in No. 37, p. 596. See also Wish 141, Wasco 261. 

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