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on the beach in front of the village. When the attacking party land, singing is heard 

 in the young chief's house. Eagle down flies upward through the smoke hole. The 

 young man conies out' wearing his dancing-ornaments, holding his bow in one hand, 

 a rattle in the other. He leaps down to the beach, jumps over the rock, and lets his 

 live arrow go. He jumps back over the rock, runs up to the house, up a ladder to the 

 roof, and down through the smoke hole. The arrow goes through the hearts of the 

 people, kills them, and then returns. No matter how many people appear, the arrow 

 kills them all. The old man advises his own relatives not to go to battle, but they 

 do not believe him. Finally the old blind warrior himself goes out. He is placed 

 behind the rock, and his grandson points the arrow to the smoke hole. When the 

 young person comes out, the old man lets go, and hits the prince in the eye and kills 

 him. His sister puts on the armor and acts in the same way as her brother had done. 

 'When going back, however, she turns and jumps over the rock forward. She becomes 

 tired, and the people see that she is a woman. She throws the paraphernalia of her 

 brother away. They are transformed into rocks. The Wolf people are scattered 

 among all the tribes Ts 306. 



A similar story of a war between the Ginaxda'yiks (Bear clan) 

 and GitAndu' (Git !End5', Eagle clan) is embodied in the long Raven 

 legend recorded by Swanton at Wrangell. 



At the village Git like there is a war. A chief, his sister, and his sister's daughter 

 are the only people left. The chief sends for an old man, in order to get knowledge. 

 The first old man tells about good food and his noble descent; another one, about his 

 love affairs. Finally he sends for Old Man Who Foresees All Troubles In The World , 

 who lives among his enemies. The old man instructs him always to speak highly of his 

 enemies, and makes a Wolf helmet, a dancing-hat of wolf skin, and an arrow which 

 is decorated with black lines. The youth is instructed that his sister shall sing a war 

 song for him, that his sister's daughter shall beat a drum, and that he shall jump over 

 a rock on the beach four times. The old man tells the chief not to direct his arrow 

 toward the canoe farthest from the beach, in which the old man's nephews are. The 

 old man further instructs the chief to let the arrow go at midnight, and to say to it, 

 "I am shooting you to kill the chief of my enemies." At midnight he shoots, while 

 his sister and his niece are singing and beating the drum, and the arrow pierces the 

 enemy's heart. The people try to find where the arrow has come from, and it flies 

 back, naming the village where it came from. The people attack the chief. When 

 they land, the chief's sister sings, and the niece beats the drum. When he comes out 

 of the house, ashes fly out, which conceal his movements. He shoots, and his arrow 

 passes through four canoes, comes back, and he shoots four more canoes. He shoots 

 the old man's relatives, and then the arrow flies back to the old man, who, in his 

 turn, kills the chief. Then the sister puts on her brother's war clothes, while her 

 daughter sings and drums. The people tell the old man that he has not succeeded in 

 killing the chief; but when the woman is running back to the house, they see her apron, 

 recognize that she is a woman, and attack her. She escapes with her daughter. From 

 the top of the mountain the two see that their house is being burned Tl 122. Here 

 follows the Gau'6 story (see p. 847). 



53. The Prince and Prince Wolf (p. 317) 



The wife of a prince who is a successful hunter goes picking cranberries with her 

 maid. She meets a youth in the forest, who seduces her. She wears an armor set 

 with ears of reindeer and deer, and a garment of mountain-sheep feet. He wears a 

 hat ornamented with a wolf's tail. The prince becomes unlucky. He goes home 

 secretly and questions his wife's maid, asking whether his wife had been true to him. 

 Then he kills the young man who is in the house and cuts off his head. He takes the 

 armor and helmet as his crests, and does not discard his wife, because through her 



