swANTON] HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS 227 



He-who-was-born-from-his-mother's-side 



[Told by John Sky of Those-boni-atSkedaiis] 



She was a chiefs child. She was a woman.' When she went out, 

 they l)raced the hanginjf door open for her, and she went out fre- 

 (juentlN'." One day, when she came in, the stick slipped off, and the 

 edge of the door touched her upon the side and made her sore there. 

 I\v and b}' a hole appeared there, and, when the town people came to 

 know that, her father gave orders to abandon her. Next day they 

 left her. 



Then she went down to the saltwater and washed her [sore]. There 

 she put medicine upon it. One day, when she was washing, some 

 bloody looking matter stuck out. And she was unable to pull it out. 

 Then she again put medicine upon it and crept up to the house. 



Next day she crept down to the water again, and, while she was 

 washing it, she again pulled at it with her finger nails. Lo, she pulled 

 it out. Then she laid it upon a stone, and, after she had put medi- 

 cine on herself, picked it up and moved toward the house. Then she 

 l»ent pieces of cedar bark, placed it in them, and put it side of the 

 house outside. 



Now she went to bed. While her back was turned to the tire a child 

 cried. Then she rose quickly and, without standing up, ran out. 

 And soniv^thing inside the thing* she had bent together was cr3'ing. 

 She looked. A child I'aj in it. And, after she had taken it out, she 

 washed it. Then she reared it. She had it as a companion. 



And very soon he began to creep. Before he had eaten an3"thing 

 he began to walk. One day he started to cry. He said: ''HaL."^ 

 Then she made a bow for him. She used a young hemlock limb. 

 When it was finished, she gave it to liim. After he had looked at it 

 he put it into the fire. She made them for him out of all kinds of 

 wood. Each time he did the same thing. 



By and by she made one for himout of real yew. Wa-a-a-a-a', it 

 looked red. It was pretty. After he had looked at that, too, for a 

 while he threw it into the fire, and the blunt-pointed arrows along 

 with it. 



Then she pounded out copper for him. She hammered a string on 

 so that it could not be removed. She also hammered out two arrows. 

 One had the figure of a weasel. The other had the figure of a mouse 

 on it. When she handed these to him he did not look at them. 

 He at once went off. 



After he had been gone for some time, he brought in some wrens* 



