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him. When he came out to look at her, he went behind the rock and 

 walked down toward it, and the woman was on the other side. When 

 he came up to the. rock, he looked over it, and there he saw a pretty 

 woman digging for dams. Shi: was so pretty that he could not stop 

 himself: he sprang on her and committed rape. As soon as he 

 came up to her, however, she turned into an octopus (ti'lop), which 

 held him until the tide came in and drowned him. Then she let him 

 go, and he was washed up to the beach. A canoe came along and 

 found him lying on the beach dead; and the people said, "Oh, here 

 is our chief dead!" But as soon as they had said this, he awoke, 

 and said that he had been sleeping there instead of being dead. So 

 he came home and had a good time with his people again. 

 That ends the story. 



10. How Raven was in the Woods for a Lokwa'na' Dance 



AT YOGWAT 



Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Raven 

 (Qo' £ cin ,£ mit'), of a tribe belonging to the Ts!a £ wln' e ath a , one of the 

 brother tribes of the Mowa'tc!ath a at Yogwat. Raven had a wife 

 whose name was Sea Egg (Pa'chak'). It was in the winter-time, and 

 the Mowa'tc!ath a tribe were talking about having a winter-dance, or 

 Lokwa'na' dance. After they had stopped talking about the Lokwa 'na' 

 dance — how they would appear in the village — a number of young 

 men went at night into the woods to howl like w r olves, to give notice 

 to the people that the winter-dance, or Lokwa'na', was coming to 

 bring the dance to the people. Now, this notice has to be howled, 

 as wolves howl, three different nights, so as to get everybody ready 

 for the fourth night ; for the wolves come to the door of the Lokwa'na' 

 dancing-house and throw in the ball of Lokwa'na', or dance-giver, or, 

 in Kwakiutl, "ball of quartz." This ball is said to strike whatever 

 girl (or boy) is going to dance the Lokwa'na". Then she pretends to 

 be dead until all the people come to sing their secret songs. Then 

 she conies to life, again. 



As soon as Raven heard the wolves howl the first notice of the 

 dance, however, he disappeared; and his people did not like it, for 

 he was always doing something that did not please them; and of 

 course his disappearance on the first notice of the winter-dance made 

 them feel very bad. Then all the people were called into a house, 

 and also one of the speakers of Chief Woodpecker. After all the peo- 

 ple had come in, he said, "We are not pleased with what Raven has 

 done in breaking the rules of our old custom regarding the Lokwa 'na' 

 dance, for he disappeared before the fourth night of the wolves' 

 howling, and he ought also to have given notice to all the chief men of 



