NELSON] RAVEN CREATION MYTH A457 
on his part, loud cries began to break from him and the tears ran down. 
his face as he went home. When his son saw him coming, he called to 
his wife and mother to see Man coming along making such a strange 
noise; when he reached them they were still more surprised to see water 
running down his face. After he told them the story of his disappoint- 
ment they were all stricken with the same strange ailment and began to 
. wail with him, and in this way people first learned how to ery. After 
this the son killed another seal and they made more deer snares from 
its hide. 
When the deer caught this time was brought home, Man told his peo- 
ple to take a splint bone from its foreleg and to drill a hole in the large 
end. Into this they put some strands of sinew from the deer and sewed 
skins wpon their bodies to keep themselves warm when winter came; 
for Raven had told them to do this, so that the fresh deerskins dried 
upon them. Man then showed his son how to make bows and arrows 
and to tip the latter with points of horn for killing deer; with them 
the son killed his first deer. After he had cut up this deer he placed 
its fat on a bush and then fell asleep; when he awoke he was very 
- angry to find that mosquitoes had eaten all of it. Until this time 
mosquitoes had never bitten people, but Man scolded them for what 
they had done and said, “Never eat meat again, but eat men,” and 
since that day mosquitoes have always bitten people. 
Where the first man lived there had now grown a large village, for 
the people did everything as Raven directed them, and as soon as a 
child was born it was rubbed with clay and so caused to grow to its 
full stature in three days. One day Raven came back and sat by Man, 
and they talked of many things. Man asked Raven about the land he 
had made in the sky. Raven said that he had made a fine land there, 
whereupon Man asked to be taken to see it. This was agreed to and 
they started toward the sky where they arrived in a short time. There 
Man found himself in a beautiful country with a very much better 
climate than that on earth; but the people who lived there were very 
small. Their heads reached only to his thigh when they stood beside 
him. Man looked about as they journeyed and saw many strange 
animals; also that the country was much finer than the one he had left. 
Raven told him that this land, with its people and animals, was the 
first he had made. 
The people living here wore handsomeiy made fur clothing, worked 
in ornamental patterns, such as people now wear on earth; for Man, on 
his return, showed his people how to make clothes in this manner, and 
the patterns have been retained ever since. After a time they came to 
alarge kashim, and went in; a very old man, the first made by Raven 
in the sky land, came out from his place of honor at the head of the room, 
opposite the door, and welcomed them, telling the people to bring food 
for the guest from the lower land, who was his friend. Then boiled 
flesh of a kind which Man had never eaten before was brought to him, 
