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37. The blind Git-q!a /0 da— Continued. 



II d. Geese restore his eyesight by brushing against his eyes with their wings, 

 Esk Greenland. 

 Ill a. The man kills the woman Ri, Ch.il, Car, Loucheux, Hare, Assiniboin, 



Arapaho. 

 Ill b. The woman is not allowed to enter the house, freezes to death, and 



becomes an owl Ts. 

 Ill c. The woman is transformed into stone, then a deer, then a wood-spirit K. 



-4s incident: Origin of flint (see p. 825). 

 Ill d. The woman is transformed into a narwhal Esk. 



III e. He wishes a bear's head, that the woman is cooking, to bite her. She 



dies Kai, M. 



IV a. The.man travels. He is deserted on a sea-lion rock (see p. 818) Ri. 



IV 6. A Cormorant appears and gives fish to the people. They do not share 



with Raven, who transforms them into stone M. 

 IV c. The man moots his brother Thunderbird K. 

 IV (/. The man marries again, and a war story follows, Assiniboin. 

 IV e . The children of the couple are deserted, and helped by Wolves, Arapaho. 

 IV /. The man and his sister travel and meet fabulous people Esk. 



38. Local winter in Gtt-q!a /0 da (p. 829). 



I. A person commits an offense. The country is covered with snow. A 

 bird holding a berry appears and shows that it is summer elsewhere Ts, 

 Tl, &, M, Chil, Sh, Kath, Wish. 

 II. The survivors go to a lake and marry the children of a duck Ts. 



39. The drifting log (p. 831). 



I. After a war between two villages, one group escapes and settles on Nass 

 River Ts, N. 

 II a. The girls play in a hollow log, drift away to Queen Charlotte Islands, 

 where they marry. The children of the married princess return and 

 take revenge on their grandparents' enemies Ts. 

 As incident: Children of a princess married in a foreign country are re- 

 proached with their unknown origin (see p. 446). 

 II b. The children play in a hollow log and drift away. They are rescued near 

 a whirlpool by supernatural beings N. 

 As incidents: 

 Persons consisting of right or left half of the body N, Tl, Sk, BC, Chip- 



pewayan. 

 The whirlpool at the edge of the world (p. 831) N, Tl, Tsts, Co. 

 The self-moving canoe (p. 832) Ts. X, Tl. Sk. H, Xe, K. 



40. The story of Asdi'Ida and Omen (p. 832). 



I. Fishermen scold and offend a supernatural being. They burn a frog Ts, 

 Kai, Sk. 

 II. It is predicted that they will die, the last one after telling his story Ts, 

 Kai, Sk. 

 As incident: Tl, Kai, Sk. 

 III. The town is burnt; only one girl is saved. Djila'qons appears singing 

 mourning-songs. The girl receives crests Ts, Kai, Sk. 

 IV «. A Goose takes the girl up to the sky Kai. 



IV b. The girl is taken to the Tsimshian country. Some of her descendants 

 return Ts, Sk. 



41. Explanation of the beaver hat (p. 834). An Eagle family fleeing from Alaska 



obtains crests Ts. 



