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9. Am'ala' — Continued. 



(b) Am'ala' becomes the supporter of the world (p. 731). 



I. The youth shoots ducks and gathers their fat Ts, Sk. 



II. He is called to take the place of the one who supports the pole on 

 which the world rests Ts, Sk. 

 .4s incident: The pole supporting the world, Ts, Tl, Sk, Hare Indians. 



10. The Four Great Chiefs of the Winds (p. 732). 



a. The Cold Wind marries the daughter of the Warm Wind. Their child 

 (with Cold Wind's sister) is a lump of ice. She is rescued Ts, M, Lil, Ntl. 



6. A man marries the Wind's daughters Tl. 



a'. North marries a girl. Her brothers go to visit her and die. The youngest 

 overcomes North and revives his brothers Sk. 

 As incident: North's ornaments are icicles Tl, M, Sk. 



11. The Story of Nalq. 



(a) How a feather carried the people of a village up into the sky (p. 734). 



a. Children play. A feather appears and pulls them up, each person taking 



hold of the feet of the preceding one Ts, N, Tl, M, Sk. 



b. An eagle carries away the people in the same way Tl, Sk. 



c. Eagles are pulled into the water in the same way M, Sk. 



As incident: A strange child appears, joins the children, and is struck by 

 them M. 

 (6) The magical origin of children of the survivor (p 734). 



a. Children originate from the tears of the surviving girl Ts, N, Sk. 

 As incidents: 



Children originate from tears Kai, K, Nu, Co, LkungEn. 

 Children originate from a boil Tl, K. 

 Children originate from the thigh Sk. 



Children originate from secretion of the vagina Ri, Ne, K, (Sk, H?). 

 Children originate from various objects Sts, Chin, Lil, Till, Coos. 

 6. Children originate from root-sap swallowed by the surviving girl Tl, M. 



(c) The children obtain possession of the plume (p. 735). 



The children born by magical means cut off the plume as it reappears Ts, 

 N, M, Sk, Tl. 



(d) Further adventures (p. 736). 



I. A blind cannibal catches people in a bag net Ts. 



II. They kill Raccoon's grandchild, are threatened with death by heat in 

 Raccoon's house, and revive the child Ts, Sk. 



III. A witch tries to kill them by catching their breath. They exchange it 



for hers, and she kills herself Ts, N, Sk. 

 As incident: Tl, Sk 258. 



IV. They pass a cave that opens and closes (p. 737) Ts, Sk. 

 V. The children marry the Winds Ts. 



VI. One of the children becomes a mountain N. 



VII. An obstructing mountain is melted down by the plume (p. 738) N. 

 VIII. Children are killed by the fall of a large object Sk. 

 IX. Children are killed by jumping over a dog Sk. 

 X. Local snowfall. 



Independent story No. 38 (see p. S29). 

 XI. They meet the spirit of sleep N. 

 Independent story (see p. 871). 



