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shell knives on Deer's head; and he slapped him on each side. 

 After they were on, he said, "Hereafter you shall be a deer!" Deer 

 looked at him, shook his head, and walked away for a little distance; 

 then he stopped and looked back and stared at Q!a'nexe £ naxw; then 

 he walked into the woods. 



ThenQ!a'nexe £ naxw walked on southward; and he had not gone far, 

 when he saw Mink (L!iL!ih a i' £ y6h a ) sharpening a short spear; and he 

 went up to him and asked him what he was doing, and Mink said, 

 "Why, don't you know the news about Q!a'nexe £ naxw coming to do 

 mischief to us all in this world ? I am making this spear to defend 

 myself against him." Then Q!a'nexe £ naxwsaid, "Let me have your 

 spear, for I want to see how it is made!" Mink gave the spear to him; 

 and as soon as Q!a'nexe £ naxw took the spear, he said, "Turn your 

 rump this way, so that I may fix it for you." And right away the 

 foolish Mink obeyed, turning Ms rump towards Q !a'nexe £ naxw. Then 

 the latter stuck the spear on his rump, and it was made into a tail 

 instead of a spear. Then Q!a'nexe £ naxw slapped on each side of it, 

 and said to him, "I am Q!a'nexe £ naxw. Turn into a mink for the 

 generations to come!" And the little mink ran away into the woods 

 without turning round to look at Q!a'nexe £ naxw. 



Then Q!a'nexe £ naxw walked again, and he saw a man and woman 

 with their private parts on their foreheads; and he went up to them, 

 and asked them if they could breed as they were. Then the man 

 said, "I have tried to make her pregnant, but without success." 

 Then Q!a'nexe £ naxw said, "I know, that the people in the world will 

 be all gone if no change is made." So he put the man's privates 

 in the place where they are now, and he put the woman's secret parts 

 also in the right place. After he had finished, he told the man to 

 try to make his wife pregnant, and she immediately became so. 

 Then Q!a'nexe £ naxw left them. 



Then he came to a place where he thought that he had better 

 make man. He took from the beach a piece of wood and carved 

 from it a man's and a woman's image. After he had finished carving 

 them, he spat on them, one man said, and another man said he 

 breathed on them, and brought them to life. After he gave them 

 life, he told them how to live, and then he went on southward. 

 That is all that is said about him. 



This story ends now. 

 7. Woodpecker was a Chief at the Time the Whole World 

 was in Darkness 

 {Told by Ts.'axwl'sap, a Nootka Chief) 



Once upon a tune there lived a tribe of Indians at Place Of Wind 

 (Yogwat); and they had a chief whose name was Woodpecker, 

 and he had a princess. Woodpecker did not know how to get 

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