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the deer and pulls out its teeth and makes a tail of grass for it. He tells the deer to 
snort when it sees people. He kills two deer and comes to the town, and people are 
scared when they see him carrying the deer. 
30. Raven (No. 65).—A chief wishes that everybody shall die twice. Everybody 
agrees except Raven, who wants to eat the eyes of corpses. His decision is accepted. 
The people kill Raven’s two children, and he wishes in vain to have the previous 
decision reversed .! | 
Ant tightens his belt in order to bury the dead. or that reason the ant has a narrow 
waist .? 
Raven is hungry and hides the buffalo. The people are starving. They ask - 
Beaver to pretend to be dead. Raven appears and wants to eat Beaver’s eyes. 
Beaver holds him, and the people capture him. Raven is taken into the tent where 
the people are assembled. Coyote sits on top of the smoke hole. Raven refuses to 
tell where he has hidden the game. Finally he shouts and frightens Coyote, who falls 
down. Then Raven flies away through the smoke hole. Magpie has good eyes, and 
sees in what direction Raven is flying. This makes Coyote angry, and he throws dust 
1 Apache, Jicarilla (Goddard PaAM 8:194; Russell JAFL 11:258). 
Arapaho (Dorsey and Kroeber FM 5:17, 81). 
Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:104). 
Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:20, 21; de Josselin de Jong VKAWA 14:29; Grinnell, Lodge Tales 138, 272). 
Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:14, 15). 
Cheyenne (Kroeber JAFL 13:161). 
Coeur d’Aléne (Teit MAFLS 11:125). 
Comanche (Lowie-St. Clair JA FL 22:279). 
Coos (Frachtenberg CU 1:43; also 4:41). 
Dieguefio (Du Bois JAFL 14:183). 
Dog-Rib (Sir John Franklin, Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea [Lon- 
don, 1828], p. 293). 
Eskimo (David Crantz, Historie von Grénland 262). 
Hare (Petitot 115). Me 
Kaska (Teit JAF L 30:444). 
Klamath (Gatschet CN AE 2:103). 
Lillooet (Teit JAFL 25:356). 
Maidu (Dixon BAM 17:48, 46, 47; PAES 4:29, 51; Merriam 55). 
Miwok (Merriam 55, 132). 
Navaho (MAFLS 5:77). 
Pawnee (Dorsey CI 59:44, MAFLS 8:17). 
Pomo (Merriam 213). 
Quinault (Farrand JE 2:111). 
Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11:106). 
Shasta (Dixon JAFL 23:19; Frachtenberg-Farrand JAFL 28:209). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:239). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:746). 
Tahitan (Teit MS). 
Takelma (Sapir U Penn 2:99). 
Thompson (Teit JE 8:329, 330; Teit MAFLS 11:1). 
Ute (Powell RBAE 1:45). 
Wintun (Curtin, Creation Myths, 163, 174). 
Wishosk (Kroeber JAF L 18:96, 99). 
Yana (Sapir UCal 9:91). 
See also Luiseno (Du Bois UCal 8:134, 146). 
2 Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:25). 
3 Apache, Jicarilla (Goddard PaAM 8:212; Russell JAFL 11:259). 
Arapaho (FM 5:275). 
Beaver (Goddard PaAM 10:250). 
Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:50; Uhlenbeck VK AWA 13:164; Grinnell, Lodge Tales 145). 
Chippewayan (Petitot 379; Lowie PaAM 10:184). 
Comanche (Lowie-St. Clair JAF L 22:280). 
Gros Ventre (Kroeber PaAM 1:65). 
Kaska (Teit JAF L 30:441). 
Nez Percé (Mayer-Farrand MAFLS 11:162). 
Pawnee (Dorsey CI 59:43). 
Thompson (Teit JE 8:241). 
See also Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:10). 
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