NELSON] RAVEN CREATION MYTH 459 
answer, but could not make a sound until the Raven waved his magic 
wing over him, when he replied that he did not like it, for he would have 
to live on the sea while his son would be on the shore, and he would 
feel badly. Then Raven made a stroke with his wings and the bearskin 
fell from Man and lay empty at one side while he sat up in his original 
form. Then Raven took one of his tail-feathers, placing it inside the 
bearskin for a spine, and, after waving his wing over it, a white bear 
arose. Then they passed on, and ever since white bears have been 
found on the frozen sea. 
Raven asked Man how many times he had turned over, and he 
answered, “four.” ‘That was four years,” said Raven, “for you slept 
there just four years.” They had gone only a short distance beyond 
this, when they saw a small animal like a shrew-mouse; this was a 
wi'-li-gho'-yik. It is like the shrew that lives on the land, but this one 
always lives at sea on theice. Whenitsees a man it darts at him, and, 
entering the toe of his boot, crawls all over his body, after which, if he 
keeps perfectly quiet, it will leave him unharmed and the man will 
become a successful hunter. In case the man moyes even a finger 
while this animal is on him, it instantly burrows into his flesh and 
goes directly to his heart, causing death. 
Then Raven made the @-mi’-kuk, a large, slimy, leathery-skin animal, 
with four long, wide-spreading arms. This is a fierce animal, living 
in the sea, which wraps its arms about a man or a kaiak and drags 
them under the water; if the man tries to escape from it by leaving his 
kaiak and getting on the ice it will dart underneath, breaking the ice 
beneath his feet, and even pursuing him on shore by burrowing through 
the earth as easily as it swims in the water, so that no one can escape 
from it when it once pursues him. 
Beyond this, they saw two large dark-colored animals, around which 
swam a smaller one. Raven hurried forward and sat upon the head of 
the smaller animal, and it became quiet. When Man drew near, Raven 
showed him two walrus, and said that the animal upon whose head he 
was borne was a walrus dog (az-i-.t/-gumki-mukh/-ti). This animal, 
he said, would always go with large herds of walrus and would kill 
people. It was long and rather slender, covered with black scales 
which were not too hard to be pierced by a spear. Its head and teeth 
were somewhat like those of a dog; it had four legs and a long, round 
tail covered with scales like those on the body; with a stroke of this 
tail it could kill a man. 
Some whales and grampus were seen next. Raven told Man that 
only good hunters could kill them, and that when one was killed an 
entire village could feast. Then they saw the t-mum’ ka/-bvi-d-gd, or sea 
fox, an animal very much like the red fox, except that it lives in the 
sea and is so fierce that it kills men. Near this were two i-mum/’ tsni/- 
kak or i-mum' pikh-tuikh'-chi, the sea otter, which is like the land otter, 
but has much finer fur, tipped with white, and is very scarce, only the 
