856 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [eth. ann. 31 



that he will return with his daughter, who is to be called Moon. Later on he does so; 

 and when he arrives at his father-in-law's house, the new-born child is a grown-up 

 woman, who is called Moon Ts 297. 



While Mr. Tate gives this story as belonging to one of the Wolf 

 families, I collected it in 188S as part of the GunaxnesEmgVd tale, 

 which belongs to the Ganha'da. 



When the woman who had been taken by the Bears leaves her husband, Dzaga-di-la /0 , 

 he gives her a slave whose name is Halus. They return to Metlakahtla, and Halus 

 tells the people that their princess has returned. In winter there is a famine, and 

 GunaxnesEmgVd tells Halus that they will go to get meat and fuel. Gunaxne- 

 sEmgVd throws his club into the water, which kills seals. Against the orders of the 

 young chief, a slave-woman hides some of the seal meat and takes it home. When 

 they come to a tree, GunaxnesEmgVd orders the men to close their eyes. He throws 

 one of his sling-stones against the tree, which falls down and breaks to pieces. The 

 slaves load the canoe, and he presses the load down so that it takes up only a small 

 space. The slave-woman feeds her child, which chokes, and in this way it is dis- 

 covered that GunaxnesEmgVd has killed seals and thrown down a tree. Gunaxne- 

 SEmgVd's uncle has two daughters. The younger one is lame. GunaxnesEmgVd 

 wishes to marry the older one, but Halus gets ahead of him. He takes the younger 

 one, washes her in a pond, and she becomes beautiful. GunaxnesEmgVd wishes that 

 Halus shall go out to get fuel, and wills that the smoke shall blind the chief's wife. 

 It so happens, and the chief is angry. The following day GunaxnesEmgVd himself 

 goes and gets a great deal of good fuel. The people go to Nass River to catch olachen, 

 and GunaxnesEmgVd challenges Halus to try to hit a stone and to break it. Halus's 

 stone jumps back and hits his mother-in-law's mouth. Next GunaxnesEmgVd 

 throws, and makes a hole through the stone. Next they throw at a copper on top of 

 a mountain. Halus is unsuccessful, but GunaxnesEmgVd hits it and wills that part 

 of it shall go to Skeena River, part to Cassiar. On Nass River, Halus catches only 

 leaves, while GunaxnesEmg'a'd catches fish. Halus and his wife are ashamed and 

 •jump into the water and are drowned Ts 5.298. 



The incident of the copper occurs also in a peculiar ending of the 

 Gau'o story as told by the Skidegate (see p. 854). 



One of the heavenly children who is left-handed captures a loon. Then he marries, 

 and the people go to Nass River. He puts on the loon skin and catches a hair-seal, 

 gets firewood and a halibut. There is copper on a cliff on Mount QatcIiigA'n on Nass 

 River. The people try to shoot it down with arrows, but are unable to do so. A slave 

 of the youth's father-in-law tries to bring it down with a sling, but bits his master's 

 wife. The youth hits it. When it falls, his mother-in-law is frightened and wishes it 

 to go north. Therefore there is much copper in the north. 



The rest of this story deals with the rivalry between the youth and the slave and 

 the faithlessness of the wife of the former. It seems like a much distorted version of 

 our tale. 



The slave steals the youth's clothes, sits down by the side of his wife. Eventually 

 his wife and the loon skin disappear. She has tried to imitate him and is drowned in 

 the attempt Sk 346. 



The story proper of Tsauda and Halus ends here. The following 

 part deals with the adventures of the families of his daughters: 



The elder girl marries, and her husband goes to get the cop per which has been thrown 

 up the river. He starts with three companions, and reaches the tree of sweet odors, 

 which embraces and threatens to kill him. The tree is killed by digging it out, and 



