NWANTON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS l75 



Tliosc lit' had ohlaiticd the dav Ixd'oif lit' split a second tinu'. This is 

 why it happens that mainland chifd's cut fish open [instead of letting" 

 the women do it|. He was the one who started |tliat custom]. 



\N'heii it barked there the next day he stopped taking- his how. lie 

 only took the airows. Again there wsis one more. Next day there 

 was also oii(> more. In this way the numher reached twenty. Those 

 he had cut open for the tirst time t\\v day before he cut open farther. 

 'I'heii he split planks and iiuiig them up there. He fixed a place over- 

 head. Some food entered his belly for the first time since they left 

 him. for his youngei' brother now had enough to eat. 



Tlu^ next day the dog barked there again. He went thither. There 

 was one more than before. The day after one more was added. In 

 that way the number reached thirt} . 



Next day the dog barked there. He went thither, and again there 

 was one added. The day after one more was added, and the number 

 increased to forty. 



He and his 3'ounger brother again went to ])ed, and when day broke 

 he heard the dog go out. After he had listened to its barking for a 

 while I he found] that it was barking ditierentl^^ from the wa}" in which 

 it used to bark. After it had barked for a while it j^elped differ- 

 ently. ThiMi he picked up his bow and two arrows and just outside 

 w'et them with his lips. Having his ])oW' in readiness he walked 

 slowly toward [the sound]. 



It was barking at something in the same pool of water, and he 

 looked into it. He saw^ not a sign of anj^thing. But it dug for 

 something near the water. After it had done so for a while its teeth 

 stuck fast in the roots, and after it had yelped a while they slipped 

 oft*. Then [the boy] helped dig behind it. The dog dug along ahead 

 of him. Ah! they dug into the marks of salt water, and a salmon 

 creek came to be there.* At that time a great shoal of salmon came 

 up. He stood near them. Then he went away, collected the town 

 people's planks, and split them up. He planed them. He made 

 notches for ropes. All that time the salmon w^ere coming steadily 

 up. He made this for them. 



He stretched his arms on these. Each [of these horizontal pieces] 

 was two fathoms long. Some were one fathom long [for uprights]. 

 There were twent}^ poles of each sort. All had notches on the ends. 

 Toward the top, which he worked down small, he placed a design. He 

 })ut figures of salmon there. These parts were the Ig.aiyi'iigadadji." 



While he was making this thing he never forgot his 3'ounger brother 

 and the dog, they say. He cooked for them continually, and they ate. 

 When he had those things all together he went away and dug some 

 roots. Then he came back, made a large tire of dead branches, and 

 put them in. After it he split [twMgs) with his teeth. After he had 

 flnishcd doing this, he shaped young and slender hemlocks so that they 



