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has fallen into the water, he heats stones, intending to boil it. Ya.uke’,ka°m misses 
Coyote, and finds that the fatis gone. He follows down to the water, and sees Coyote 
engaged in heating stones. Ya.ukte’;ka‘m makes a spear and spears the fat, which 
breaks up and floats.—They go on, and Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m tells Coyote not to pay any 
attention if he should hear a child crying. After they pass the child, Coyote turns 
back and puts his finger into the child’s mouth. The child sucks the finger and 
pullsin Coyote’sarm. When Ya.uk”,ka"m notices that the child is silent, he turns back 
and kills the child with his knife. All the flesh on Coyote’s arm has been sucked off. 
The child was a giant.—They go on, and Ya.uk"e’,ka'm tells Coyote not to listen if. 
he should hear birds crying. Coyote disobeys, and finds himself in the nest of the 
thunderbirds together with Ya.ukte’;ka'm. Ya-.uk"e’;ka'm asks the young thunder- 
birds when the old birds come back. They reply that they come back in the evening 
in the form of a thundercloud. Ya.ukte’;ka'm tells Coyote that the thunderbird will 
ask whether he is tired, and that he is to reply that his younger brother Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m 
is tired. When this happens, Ya.uk"e’;ka’mis told by the old thunderbird to stretch 
out his leg, because the bird wants to suck out the marrow. At this moment 
Ya.ukte’;ka'm kills the thunderbird with his spear. The same is repeated when the 
old male thunderbird comes back. When the old birds are dead, Ya.uk"e’;ka'm sits 
on the back of one of the young thunderbirds, which flies up, and then carries him 
down, while Coyote is shouting. Then Coyote sits on the back of the other thunder- 
bird; and when he shouts, the bird takes him down. Ya.uk"e’;ka’m ordains that 
thunderbirds may only scare people who lie about them.! Ya.uk"e’,;ka’m and Coyote 
reach the place where the Sun is being made. Ya.uk"e’;ka'm is tried; but the day 
is red because his clothing is painted with ochre. Coyote is tried, but when he acts 
as the Sun, it is too hot; and he tells what the people are doing, and asks them to leave 
some food for him. The two sons of the Lynx arrive. They have been brought up 
by their mother, who hadsbeen deserted by Lynx. He had gone to catch salmon for 
making soup for his wife. The young Lynxes meet him, and he tells them that he is 
unable to catch salmon. The boys show him how to catch salmon. When the Lynx 
_ children arrive at the place where the animals try to make the Sun, one of them goes 
up and is found a satisfactory sun.? Then they send the other one up as the Moon. Coyote 
is envious and shoots at the rising sun,® which sets his arrow on fire. The fire pursues 
him. He lies down on a trail and covers himself with a blanket. The fire passes 
over him without hurting him. Therefore trails do not burn.* 
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1 Apache, Jicarilla (Russell JAF L 11:257). 
Arapaho (Dorsey and Kroeber FM 5:383, 387). 
Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:170). 
Beaver (Goddard PaAM 10:234). 
Chilcotin (Farrand JE 2:12). 
Chippewayan (Goddard PaAM 10:48; Lowie ibid. 192; Petitot 359; much distorted in Lofthouse, 
Transactions Canadian Institute 10:46). / 
Dog-rib (Petitot 323). 
Gros Ventre (Kroeber PaAM 1:88). 
Hare (Petitot 144). 
Kaska (Teit J A F L 30:437). 
Okanagon (Gatschet, Globus 52:137). 
Ponea (Dorsey CNAE 6:30, 215). 
Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11:108). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:295?). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:649; Dawson TRSC 32; nee Sagen 4). 
Sia (Stevenson RBAE 11:48). 
Thompson (Teit MAF LS 6:45; also 76; 11:57). 
Ute, Uinta (Mason JAFL 23:318). 
2 See discussion in Boas, RBAE 31: 727 (references to Okanagon, Shuswap, Thompson, Tsimshian, 
Wasco, Wishram). 
3 Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:252, 253). 
Ute (Powell RBAE 1:52). 
4Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:39, 74). 
