boas] APPENDIX I NOOTKA TALES 917 



Now, Kwa'tiyat' was a very ugly man, and his face was covered with 

 scars. The chief who had been sick told his two daughters to put 

 him into hot water in one corner of his house, to wash him, and 

 make a new man out of him. Then the two sisters called him; and 

 he went to where they stood, alongside of the hot water. As soon as 

 he came to them, they pushed him into it; and veiy soon the flesh 

 left his bones, for the water was boiling into which he was thrown, and 

 he was cooked. After the flesh was off the bones, they took the 

 bones out of the hot water with a pah- of tongs and put them on a new 

 mat. They put the skull down first, and next to that they put the 

 backbone, and next the arms and legs and the small joints belonging 

 to the fingers. All of these were put together. After this was done, 

 they took water of life and sprinkled it on the bones. Then the flesh 

 came on the bones, but there was no life yet. Then they began to press 

 the face of the new Kwa'tiyat' into a shape they thought would make 

 him look handsome. When they had done so, they sprinkled more 

 water of life on his body, and he came to life again. After the two 

 pretty women had made him as handsome as they wished him to be, 

 the elder daughter married him ; and then he staid with the Shark 

 people a long time. 



One day Kwa'tiyat' was lying on his back, and seemed to be think- 

 ing. Then his father-in-law asked his daughter whether her hus- 

 band wanted to go home; and when she asked her husband if he 

 wanted to go home, he said, "Yes!" The old man Shark said, 

 "Tonight you shall go; and now I will dress you up in my chief 

 dress." Then he went into a secret room; and he came out of it with 

 ear-drops of abalone shell, also nose abalone shells, and a blanket 

 made out of sea-otter skin; and he put them on Kwa'tiyat', and he 

 also put a head-ring made of sea-otter skin on his head. "And now," 

 said the Shark man to Kwa'tiyat', "now, tonight you shall go home, 

 and you shall also have a house that I will give you as dowry of 

 my two princesses; and you have only to say where the house shall 

 be put by my people:" for Kwa'tiyat told the Shark people 

 that he was the first chief of the Mowa'tc!ath a tribe; that is why he 

 was treated in that way. Then, when evening came, Kwa'tiyat' 

 said to his wife that he would like the house to be built on the west 

 corner of the Mowa'tc!ath a village, or at Place Of Wind, and she 

 told her father about it. 



In the night Kwa'tiyat' went to bed with his two wives, and in the 

 morning he heard many people making a loud noise. They said, 

 "Here is a large, strange house! It must belong to a great chief, for 

 see the painting on the front ! and the door also is the mouth of a 

 monster fish!" Kwa'tiyat' did not know how the front of his house 

 looked, for he had never seen it before. 



