swANToN] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 223 



They say that NAnki'lsLas was hi love with Gfi'g-ix.It woman in order 

 to restore the l)rothers of Supernatural-being-who-went-naked. In 

 order to restore the town of 8upernatural-being"-who-went-iiaked to 

 life he had let himself be born from the mother of Supernatural-being- 

 who-went-naked. Then the clouds rose. Again he sat up high, 



Ag-ain [NAilki'lsLas] called to his sister: "Sister, come to me," and 

 his sister said: " IIu hil. always, when you send me after a thing, you 

 are going- to give me something. By and b}^ you take it away from 

 me again." 



Upon that he threw something down to her. It fell with a noise 

 like that of a drum. At once she went to get it. She covered it up 

 with her blanket. T'hen the wife of Supernatural-being-who-went- 

 naked i-ecognized the thing she used to let her daughter have.^'* 



Then she cried: ''Ha"-a ha"-a, I thought that I let only my daugh- 

 ter have that." Then her mother-in-law said to her: "Stop, chief- 

 woman; wherever the supernatural beings are settled they always wear 

 it as a crest. Chief -woman, it belonged to your husband's sister and 

 her brother (NAfiki'lsLas). He is simpl}^ fooling her with the thing 

 you are talking about." At once she stopped crying. She really saw 

 it. But still she believed what her mother-in-law said. 



On the next day his brother's wife again gave them black cod to eat. 

 "\Mien he sat up again he called to his sister. After he had talked to 

 her for a while she came down and sat near Supernatural-l)eing-who- 

 went-naked, who sat with his wife. And she said: ''He wants some- 

 thing that he says your husband owns." Then he did not know what 

 [NAnki'lsLasj referred to. 



By and by he thought of the skin of the wa'sg.o he had killed. Then 

 he ran toward the mouth of the inlet. And he pulled himself up to 

 the two cedar tops, between which he kept it, and pulled oti' the wJi'sg.o's 

 tail. Then he started back with it. He returned at once. 



Then he said to his vrife: ''This must be the thing they speak about." 

 Then she called her sister-in-law and gave the wa'sg.o tail to NAiiki'lsLas. 

 After he had looked at it for a while he put it on top of his hat. It 

 looked nice there. ^'' 



At that time they again steamed black cod. And lo! the clouds again 

 arose. Then his 3'ounger l)i'others ate the black cod. Then his mind 

 was sick. Now she turned around and began weaving. After she had 

 done this for a while, lol her brother-in-law had put himself around 

 her. He looked out at her from her clothing. She looked toward the 

 rear of the house for hei- brother-in-law. The form of NAiiki'lsLas still 

 sat up there. Then they lay there together.^^ 



But still she told her husband, Supernatural-lieing-who-went-naked, 

 not to l)e in love with anyone. "Do not go with anyone, or I will go 

 down to my father." 



Then her husband began getting water in a water-tight basket in 

 which floated a hawk feather. Every time he came back she pulled 



