ABSTRACTS OF TALES 
1. TrA’pexoacxoac—A girl has a bitch. While she is away, it is 
killed and the fat is given her to eat. She is deserted by the tribe. 
Then she gives birth to five male dogs and one female. When she is 
away, the dogs assume the shape of children. Finally she discovers 
their transformation and burns their dogskin blankets. The boys 
become great hunters. Tia’pexoacxoac hears about her daughter. 
He isa great chief who eats his wives. He kills all his male children. 
The brothers kill a sea monster, and give the blood to him to drink. 
He cannot drink it all, and for that reason makes peace with the 
brothers. He marries the girl, who gives birth toa boy. She escapes 
with the baby. The boy grows up in the woods and becomes stronger 
than his father, whom he resembles in every respect. One day he 
goes to his father’s house, and is mistaken for Tia’pexoaecxoace himself. 
The latter sends slayes to search for him. The son kills all the peo- 
ple. Then Tia’pexoacxoac requests him to come back. The boy 
agrees, and when he returns, his sons shoot their grandfather. 
2, Emocoa’LeEKc—A chief’s son falls in love with a slave girl. His 
father scolds him, and he resolves to leave his people. He jumps 
into a lake and is transformed into a water monster. He invites his 
friend to come and see him, but enjoins him not to tell the other peo- 
ple what has become of him. The people track the friend and discover 
the chief’s son. They try to catch him, and when they do not succeed, 
they try to shoot him with arrows, but they are not able to hurt him. 
3. THE BROTHERS—A number of brothers maltreat their youngest 
brother. They give him refuse of their own meals to eat. He goes 
and catches birds and lies down, singing shaman’s songs. His broth- 
ers find him in this state and try to reconcile him, but he pays no 
attention to them and is transformed into a spirit of the sea, the 
protector of whale hunters. 
4. THE WAR OF THE GHOsts—Two men are met by a canoe, the 
occupants of which invite them to join in a war expedition. One of 
them refuses, the other one goes, and in combat is wounded, though 
he does not feel any pain. The people carry him home and he dis- 
covers that they are ghosts. The next morning he dies. 
5. Tur Tun Xrvocoa’tkc—A chief, Po’XpoX, kills all his male 
children. One of his wives saves her male child, who is placed in 
charge of her mother. He attains supernatural powers by finding 
dentalia in a pond. The old woman borrows sinew to string them. 
Then she inyites all the people and distributes the dentalia among 
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