Boas] KUTENAI TALES 287 
Fourth Version’ (VAEU 23).—Hare’s wife (a small red bird) has deserted him and (162) 
lives with a red hawk. Hare finds tracks of elks (not moose, as given in the original), 
. and goes home to make snowshoes. The animals start in pursuit of the elks. When 
Hare goes to get wood for his snowshoes, he meets Doe. He wishes to marry her. 
She refuses him; He goes home and tells his grandmother Frog what has happened. 
She informs him that the Doe is his sister. Hare takes her home, and she lives in the 
tent. Her presence is unknown to the other people. Hare goes out tot pursue the 
elks. His grandmother tells him to put mittens on his feet in place of his snowshoes. 
When going out, he meets Raven and other hunters, who are returning empty handed. 
They maltreat him, but he goes on. He meets Woodpecker, a diver, and Wolf. He 
passes the game hunters, and meets Hawk and his wife, who pelt him with snow. 
Only Weasel, Fox, and young Wolf are ahead of him. On the following day he meets 
them. They return, because they are unable to overtake the elks. 
Hare puts on his mittens and soon overtakes the elks. With one arrow he kills (163) 
one-half of them, and with the second the rest. He butchers them and shakes the fat, 
which becomes small in size. He fills the stomachs with blood, piles them up, and 
tells them to burst if any one should carry them. He carries the fat home, shakes it, 
and it assumes its former size. He feeds his child, and throws some fat into the fire 
in order to inform his brother Duck, who comes and is given food. He sends his brother 
to tell the people that they may go to bring in the meat. He wishes that Hawk should 
select the stomachs. Bear demands the ribs; Wolf, the legs; Raven, theeyes. Hawk 
loads the stomachs on the back of his wife. Hare follows them, steps on her snow- 
shoes, so that she falls. The blood runs over her, and she freezes to death. The skins 
are carried into Frog’s tent. When within a few days they are ready tanned, the 
people grow suspicious, and find the tracks of Doe. Lynx finds the place where the 
girl stopped, tears out four hairs, which he puts on the ground. The hairs impregnate 
her when she urinates. Doe gives birth toachild. The people hear it crying, and dis- 
cover the Doe. In order to discover the unknown father of the child, Frog orders the 
men to take up the child.2 Coyote, Raven, and others take it, but the child con- 
tinues to cry. Lynx comes back from hunting. He buries his clothing and strike-a- 
light under stones. When the people see Lynx coming, the child quiets down; and (164) 
when he takes it up, it does not cry any more. They maltreat Lynx, extinguish the 
fires, and desert him, Doe, and their child.* 
Lynx is a good hunter. After some time Doe has a second son. The people are 
starving. Lynx’s grandmother, Magpie, comes to look after her grandson. He feeds 
her. In summer Lynx goes to fish salmon. He makesa fish weir. When the boys 
are grown up, their mother sends them to the place where the sun is being made. She 
tells them that they will pass their father’s fishing-place. The boys start and reach 
the place where the sun is being made. Raven is thesun; it isdark and cold. Coyote 
acts as sun; it is very hot, and he tells the people to keep food for him. Because he 
runs home quickly the day is short. He tells everything he has seen in the daytime. 
The sons of Lynx are tried, and one is made the sun, the other the moon.* Coyote is (165) 
envious, and shoots the sun at sunrise. His arrows catch fire, fall down, and set fire 
to the grass.° 
1 Shuswap (Boas, Sagen 9). 
Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:37, 11:11; JE 8:215; Hill-Tout BAAS 65:534). 
2 Lillooet (Teit JAF L 25:328). 
Nootka (Boas, Sagen 108). 
Shuswap (Boas, Sagen 9; Teit JE 2:684). 
Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:37; JE 8:215; Hill-Tout BAAS 69:534). 
3 See RBAE 31:784. 
4 See discussion in Boas RBAE 31:727 (references to Okanagon, Shuswap, Thompson, Tsimshian, Wasco, 
Wishram). 
5 Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:252, 253). 
Ute (Powell RBAE 1:52). 
