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the Killer Whales is peculiar. Among the tribe of Rivers Inlet it 

 appears appended to the Wa'walis story, the beginning of which is 

 related to the opening passage of the Gau'o tale (see p. 848). It has 

 not been collected among the Bellacoola and the Kwakiutl, but it 

 has been found among the Seshelt and Nanaimo. The agreement in 

 form of these two versions with the Tsimshian version is so great, 

 that I suspect here a recent introduction. Certain elements of the 

 tale occur in the intervening territory, but in entirely new combina- 

 tions. We find them in the Transformer cycle and in the stories 

 relating to the origin of salmon. It is interesting to note that in the 

 Masset version the Obstacle myth is introduced here a second time. 

 The Tlingit tale Tld is highly modified. 



(a) The Girl who is Taken by the Bear 

 (10 versions: Ts 278; Ts 1.147; Ts 5.294; Tl 4.271; T16 126, Tlrf 252; M6 500; Sk6 



336; BC 111; Ri 5.226 ') [cited respectively Ts, Ts 1, Ts 5, Tl 4, T16, Tlrf, M6, Sk6 



BC, Ri 5]) 



According to Ts 1, the story belongs to the GidzExla' !, and occurred at Ksdal. 

 Ts 4 places the occurrence at Metlakahtla, and calls the hero Yehuxlane. Tib intro- 

 duces the story in the Raven legend, and tells it as happening in the village of Gau'o, 

 which is called Gitlfkc. Tic calls the hero GAmna'tck !i. M 495 places the second 

 part of the story at Sins, and calls the hero Nanasimgit. The first part is placed at 

 Sqlelu' Mb. Ri 5 places the story in Tsakwa'lo, and calls the girl La'lxeniil. The 

 related story Ts 278 is placed at GitslEinga'lon. 



A chief has four sons and one daughter' Ts. The parents and uncle will not allow 

 the princess to marry Mb. The people are drying salmon and berries; one day ten 

 girls go berry-picking Ts 1 [a princess goes berry-picking with companions Ts 5, Tlrf, 

 Tl 4; goes digging clover roots BC]. The princess steps on bear dung Ts, Ts 1, Ts 5, 

 T14, Mb, BC, Ri 5 [grizzly-bear dung T1&, Tlrf, Sk&]. She scolds the BearTs, Ts 1, Tlrf, 

 BC, Ri 5 [scolds the bear dung Ts 5, Tl 4; scolds the bear dung twice M6]. After ber- 

 rying, the boxes are tied up, and they go home Ts 1. The carrying-strap breaks, and 

 the berries are scattered Ts, Ts 1, Ts 5, Tlrf, Sk&, M6 [she drops her basket Tl 4; upsets 

 basket four times Ski], Her companions leave her Ts, Tlrf[onebyoneM6; thefirsttime 

 three, then two, then two more, then one; the last one she sends home Ts 1; the fourth 

 time she sends the girls home Ts 5; is deserted by her companions Tl 4; her father's 

 slave remains longest, but finally goes home M&j. [When alone, she loses the trail 

 and goes to sleep Tl 4; the Bears cause the carrying-straps to break Ts 5, Mb.] Two 

 young men appear Ts, Ts 1, Ts 5, Sk&, Mb. Ttey offer to carry her basket Ts [box 

 Ts 1; promise to take her home Ts 5; take her to Bear town M6; invite her to go 

 along, saying, "Inland are berries" Sk6]. 



The Tlingit, Bellacoola, and Rivers Inlet tales introduce one man only. One 

 man [who is whirling a stick Tlrf] takes her off T1&; offers to show her the way 

 Tl 4; good-looking youth approaches her BC; man named G-a'lgEm, wearing Bear 

 blanket, approaches her and takes her home Ri 5. [They pass under two logs which 

 are really mountains Tlrf.] Her brothers look for her in vain, observe taboos for two 

 months, and stay in solitude; if they had returned too soon, they would have lost their 

 senses Ts 5 [people think she has been killed by bears T16]. She is taken to a town Ts 1 

 [house Ts 5, a house with painting in middle of town Sk&, a bear's den Tl 4]. She sees 

 that it is not her father's town Ts 1 . She is left outside. The father of the young Bears 

 asks them whether they have brought her Ts, Ts 1. Two young women lead her into 

 the house Ts 1. [She sees two old Bears, who then appear as husband and wife; they 



i This story is also briefly referred to in Albert P. Niblack, The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and 

 Northern British Columbia (Report of (he V. S. National Museum for 18S8, Washington, 1890, 

 of Plate XLIXi. 



