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thick head). They smoke, and the fish indicates by signs that 
Flicker is in the lake. The Woodpeckers try in vain to kill the water 
monster, which escapes along the Columbia River. At Red Water, 
near Windermere, it is wounded: therefore the water is red there. 
It escapes into a cave. Nalmu’qtse is told to stop up the outlet of 
the river, and he makes the portage separating Columbia Lakes from 
Kootenai River by molding the soil with his knees. Fox kills the 
monster. They cut it up, and Flicker and his wife Duck come out. 
The flesh of the monster is thrown about to serve as food for the 
people (see p. 289). 
Then Nalmu’qtse arises, his head touches the sky, his hat falls 
down, and he himself falls over and dies. 
In the Okanagon tales the making of the bow and arrow, which 
forms a large part of the Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m tradition, is connected with 
the war on the sky. The most connected form of the tale has been 
recorded by Albert S. Gatschet (Globus, vol. 52, p. 137). The ani- 
mals make war against the sky in order to obtain the fire. They are 
unable to reach the sky with their arrows. The Wren decides to make 
a bow and arrow. First he kills an elk (here is introduced the story 
of Chickadee and Elk, p. 304). The Wolf tries to steal the elk, and 
Wren throws red-hot stones wrapped in fat into his mouth. He uses 
the rib of the elk for making his bow. He obtains the feathers for 
his arrow by allowing the eagle to carry him into his nest. He 
obtains flint by causing the owners of flint to fight. Then he goes 
to the place where the animals shoot the arrows up to the sky. He 
meets Coyote. (Here is introduc eda story of the small animal that 
is able to shoot trees. See Blackfoot, de Josselin de Jong VKAWA 
14:73; Uhlenbeck VKAWA 13:182; Pend d’Oreilles, Teit MAFLS 
11:114.) 
The Wren kills Coyote, and Fox resuscitates him. Coyote meets 
the Wren a second time. They gamble, and he wins Wren’s clothing. 
He goes on, and meets young Grouse, whom he kills. The old Grouse 
then scares him so that he falls down a precipice (see p. 293). Wren 
recovers his arrows, makes the arrow chain, and the animals climb 
up. When Grizzly Bear climbs up, the chain breaks, owing to his 
weight. Then Eagle, Beaver, and Turtle are sent to obtain the fire. 
(See Lillooet, JAFL 25:299, where other references are given.) 
The Turtle falls down from the sky and kills a person. Then follows 
the story of the Turtle who asks to be thrown into the water (see 
p- 305). The story closes with the return of the animals. 
In the following I give brief abstracts of the tales recorded in the 
present volume and of those published by me in the “‘ Verhandlungen 
der Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urge- 
schichte,” 1891. The page references to both series are given in the 
margin. Those in parentheses refer to the series of Kutenai tales 
