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15. Corore AND Srar (No..9).—(Unintelligible.) 
16. Coyorr AND THE Woman! (No. 10).—A woman sees Coyote coming. She is 
afraid and lies down, pretending to be dead. Coyote comes up to examine her, and 
thinks she has been dead for a long time. 
17. CoyoTE AND THE Mantrou witH THE Hart ? (No. 11).— Coyote meets a manitou 
whose hat is made of fat. He eats of it and hurts the manitou. 
18. Coyore AND THE Ducks (3 versions: Nos. 12,59, and VAEU 23:167). First Ver- 
sion.—Coyote and his two children.reach a lake on which there are many ducks. He 
tells his children to wail for his brother-in-law. A Mallard Duck comes ashore to 
hear what is going on. The others follow, and Coyote pulls out their feathers.? 
Second YVersion.—Coyote tells his son to wail for his brother-in-law. The Ducks 
hear him. One comes ashore, and says that he wants to play with them. They go 
from one lake to an adjoining one. The Ducks fly; Coyote and his son walk. 
Coyote stretches a net across the connecting river and induces the Ducks to swim. 
Then he catches them, takes them home, and dries them. The surviving Ducks 
discover what he is doing and fly away. Lynx steals Coyote’s ducks, and pulls his 
face and his tail long. When Coyote discovers this, and when he overtakes Lynx 
while asleep, he takes back the ducks and pushes in his tail and face.* 
Third Version.—In this version the tale forms an incident of the tale of Coyote and 
Dog. (See p. 299.) 
19. Coyore AND Ow t® (3 versions: Nos. 13, 24, and 36). First Version.—Owl car- 
ries away crying children. Coyote pretends to be a child and cries. Owl asks for 
the child. He is put into the birch-bark basket of Owl, who carrieshim home. The 
children dance in Owl’s tent. Coyote closes Owl’s eyes with gum, and throws him 
into the fire. The children return. 
1 Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:116, 204). 
Blackfoot (Wissler PaA M 2:35; de Josselin de Jong VK AWA 14:18). 
Crow (Simms FM 2:284). 
2 Blackfoot (de Josselin de Jong VKAWA 14:72; Uhlenbeck VKAWA 13:177). 
Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:100). 
Crow (Simms FM 2:285). 
Hupa (Goddard UCal 1:167). 
3 See p. 290, note 4. 
4 Blackfoot (Uhlenbeck VK AWA 13:176). 
Chippewayan (Lofthouse, Transactions Canadian Institute 10:44). 
Nez Percé (Mayer-Farrand MAFLS 11:140, 142). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:276). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:678). 
Sia (Stevenson RBAE 11:148). 
Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:38; JE 8:216). 
Tillamook (Boas JA FL 11:142). 
Ute, Uinta (Mason JAFL 23:301). 
5 Arapaho (Dorsey and Kroeber FM 5:239 [Big Owl]). 
Bellabella (Boas, Sagen 241). 
Bellacoola (Boas, Sagen 249). 
Chileotin (Farrand JE 2:36). 
Chinook (BBAE 20:110). 
Comox (Boas, Sagen 89). 
Cowichan (Boas, Sagen 49). 
Fraser Delta (Hill-Tout J AT 34:347). 
Hopi (Voth FM 8:173). 
Kato (Goddard UCal 5:236). 
Kutenai (Int. Congr. of Anth., Chicago, 1894, 283, 284; E. F. Wilson, Our Forest Children, 1890, 3:166), 
Lillooet (Teit JAFL 25:314). 
Micmac (Rand 183). 
Nez Percé (MAFLS 11: Mayer-Farrand 176; Spinden 192). 
Osage (Dorsey FM 7:41). 
Rivers Inlet (Boas, Sagen 224). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:288). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:698). 
Squamish (Boas, Sagen 57; Hill-Tout BAAS 70:545). 
Stsré’lis (Hill-Tout J AT 34:347). 
Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:63; 11:26; JE 8:265). 
Ute (Powell RBAE 1:45). 
