318 BUREAU OF AMEKK^AN ETHNOLOGY 



Story of the House-point families 



[Told by Tom Stevens, chief of Those-boni-at-House-point] 



The son of the town chief of House-point was half crazy. The 

 children of the town played at G.alna's.^ and all went home, and he 

 came after them. And in the place where they had been pla3^ing 

 something- with four faces was rolling' around, [exclaiming]: "Great- 

 crazy-days, Great-crazy-days. " Then he ran to catch it, l)ut he did 

 did not see whither it went. 



One time he threw stones at it. After he had done this several 

 times he saw whither it went. Then he chased it. He chased it, 

 chased it a while, and it went into the ocean before him. And he also 

 jumped right in after it. After he had pursued it along upon a 

 trail in the ocean for a while, he chased it out in front of " Upset- 

 canoe" ^ and it sat w^aiting for him on the beach. Then he sat near it. 

 It talked to him there. 



Then it took a bag off of its back, laid it near by, took out of it a 

 partly finished canoe and taught him how they were going to make 

 them. It told him how they would stretch it and would build a tire 

 inside. 



Then it took cedar bark out of its bag. It told him its name was 

 g.a-i.^ It told him they would use this for houses. And it told 

 him they would sew together the canoes with the cedar limbs and 

 fasten the cross seats in place with them. 



After it was through telling him, it struck the man with its elbow. 

 Yu'i3^a'-[-. It pushed him down. It became a bird and walked down 

 from him Happing its wings. It -dived and came up far out. But then, 

 he saw a Redhead * floating on the water out at sea. That it was that 

 was helping the people to settle at House-point. 



And afterward he came home. And he told his friends. Then they 

 began to make a canoe. As he told them, they fastened down the 

 seats with cedar limbs. When it was broken, the}' sewed it tog-ether 

 with them. And, when he explained to them about the cedar bark, 

 they also took that. They put cross sticks' in the pieces and mad(> 

 houses. This is how they began to live under cedar barks. And at 

 that time they also began lishing in the ocean. 



And it also taught him other things in the same wa3\ It told him 

 how they were going to fasten halibut hooks with roots. And it told 

 him that they should pull oft' cedar bark and weave mats out of it. It 

 also told him that they' should twist it into ropes and use it that wa\^ 

 in fishing. 



