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wood — the body of red cedar, head and tail of white pine, leg's and beak of yellow 

 cedar, and claws of mountain-goat horn. This bird carries them down, and later on 

 up again Ts 164. Trje same story occurs among the Tlingit; but in the version 

 recorded it is merely stated that they try various kinds of wood and also bone for 

 wings. They finally succeed when they use yellow cedar. By this means they fly 

 up to the place where their sister is Tl 175. 



The young men who try to attack a sea monster try to make a canoe that is to with- 

 stand the waves. The first one they try breaks when they launch it. Then they try 

 in succession spruce, yellow cedar, and other kinds of wood, finally yew wood. This 

 canoe is very fast and is not destroyed by the breakers Ts 223. Master Carpenter intends 

 to make war on Southeast Wind. He builds a canoe on a steep place and throws it 

 down into the water. He tries several times. Finally he leaves the limbs on one, and 

 when he throws it down it does not break Sk 32. 



A boy is carried away by the stars and placed over a fire. The boy's father carves 

 a figure first of spruce, then of hemlock, balsam fir, red cedar, yellow cedar. The 

 last one cries like the boy, and is substituted for him N 88. A girl is carried away 

 by a star. Her brothers, after several attempts, succeed in making a figure that cries 

 like their sister M 450. 



The unsuccessful attempts are omitted in the story of the daughter 

 of the South Wind who married the North Wind (see p. 732), who 

 makes a duck of yellow cedar, which she sends to her father (Ts 123). 



In a number of other stories the animals made of wood, instead of 

 killing the enemies, are sent out to tow them out to sea. 



A Nass story which is closely related to the part of the Asdi-wa'l tale here discussed 

 opens with the statement that four men of different clans own each a sea-lion rock. 

 The G'ispawadwE'da steals sea lions from the rock of the man of the Wolf Clan, 

 who, in order to take revenge, carves sea lions of various kinds of wood. Finally he 

 uses red wood, which becomes a good sea lion. It is placed on the rock. When the 

 G'ispawadwE'da harpoons it, the sea lion tows the canoe out to sea until the land 

 disappears from view N 109. A man who is making a canoe is neglected by his 

 brothers. In order to take revenge he carves a seal of cedar wood, which he blackens 

 over a fire. He places it on a rock, and the brothers harpoon it. The seal tows the 

 canoe across the ocean, and finally is retransformed into wood Co 5.87, Nisqually. 



These two stories are evidently identical, since the adventures of 

 the men who have been taken across the sea are in part the same (see 

 Dwarfs, p. 867). Evidently a Newettee story belongs to the same 

 group, which differs only in so far as it is not stated that the seal 

 which takes the people across the ocean is made of wood (Ne 5.191). 



Ten strong boys are successful sea-lion hunters. An old man who is envious carves 

 a sea lion of cedar, and tells it to kill the brothers. They harpoon the sea lion, which 

 tows them out to sea. They are taken to a cave, where they find the Sea Lion families. 

 The chief of the Sea Lions sends them home; Lku'figEn Hill-Tout 7.344. 



Bluejay and his companions starve Grouse, who, in order to revenge himself, makes 

 a wooden seal, which he chars over the fire. The other men harpoon the seal, which 

 drags them across the sea Quin 102. 



There are numerous other stories telling how people were towed 

 by animals across the ocean; but I do not enter them here, because 

 they probably do not belong to our group of tales (see, for instance, 

 Wish 75). 



