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out the feather. Globirifir drops of water fell off, and she drank. One 

 time he lay with one he was in love with. And, when he came home, 

 his wife pulled out the feather. The water adhered to it. 



Immediately she became angry. Her labret moved as if some one 

 had shaken it. Then she hunted in her box. At the same time her 

 tears fell as if something- were poured out. Taking something out of 

 it she put it into her mouth. It w as a white powder. She spit it upon 

 her hands and rubbed it on the soles of her feet. Then her husband, 

 who sat near her, took some that fell about. He at once rubbed it upon 

 the soles of his feet. She did this because she was going to leave him. 



Then she went down to the beach, and he followed her and went 

 away with her on the surface of the sea. She did not look at him. 

 Then she said to Supernatural-being-who-went-naked: "You better 

 go back from me before 1 look at you.'' And he said: "What kind 

 of look is this dangerous look? '■ Then she looked toward him, and he 

 went right under water. There was not a sign of him. And she 

 entered her father's house! 



Then she said to her father: "Father, I made him fall in by look- 

 ing. I looked toward him. Come! try to fish him out." Then her 

 father pulled apart the stone floor planks. He fished for him between 

 them. Then he pulled him out, with nothing but his joints holding- 

 together. Then he spit medicine upon him, and he got up and went 

 toward his place. 



And, after he arrived there, they sent for Master Carpenter. Then 

 he had a mountain placed upon ten canoes. And his younger brothers 

 were settled there one after the other. Then he put a sky blanket 

 upon his sister and seated her on the mainland. And he seated his 

 mother on the Haida country. ''** 



Now, he put on a dancing blanket and dancing leggings and started 

 along on land near his younger brothers [who were going along in 

 their canoe]. He bent over as he ran, and farther off he stood up 

 straight. In that wa}^ Supernatural-being-who-went naked became 

 the Swamp-robin.^' And his younger brothers lay still on the water 

 out at sea. People sometimes become shamans [by getting power] 

 out of that canoe. 



Like the preceding this seems to be a strictly Haida story, although the ga'srix.it 

 idea was also popular among the Tlingit of Alaska. This fact, together with its 

 length and complication and the insight it gives into the mythology of the Haida 

 people, render it one of the most interesting of all. One of the myths obtained by 

 me at Masset bore this same name, but resembled it only in the concluding portion, 

 the first part being like that of He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger. 



^ That is, weak supernatural beings or ])o\vers acted through him, rendering him 

 also weak, unlike his elder I)rothers. 



■■'The cry raised to sununon (ipponents to a contest, especially to a trial of strength 

 or to a gambling contest. 



' See preceding story, note 5. 



