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39. Race or Frog anp ANTELOPE ! (2 versions: Nos. 29 and 69). First Version.— 
Frog and hisfriends go to Antelope’s tent in order to play. They stake their clothing. 
Frog makes his people lie down along the race course. When Antelope is running, 
one Frog after another appears ahead of him. 
Second Version.—Chief Frog goes with his people to Fish Hawk Nest, the town of 
Antelope, in order to race with him. They stake their property. The men and 
women Frogs lie down along the race track. Frog stakes his blue clothing. Antelope 
laughs at Frog. In the beginning Antelope does not run fast; but when he finds that 
Frogs are always ahead of him, he runs faster and faster until he is exhausted. 
40. Tur Two Tsa’Kap (No. 31).—There area brother and sister Tsa’/kap. The boy 
bathes in a lake, and is swallowed by a charr. His sister catches the charr on the 
hook, and cuts it open. The brother speaks inside, and comes out.? They go back to 
their tent. The sister warns him not to shoot a squirrel. He disobeys. When he 
shoots, his arrow falls down in a tent, in which he finds a woman, who compels him 
to undergo a swinging-contest. When the Tsa’kap swings, the rope does not break. 
When the woman swings, it breaks and she is killed. The sister warns him not to 
goin acertain direction. He disobeys, and kills a beaver. The supernatural people 
say that he stole it from them. He returns home and asks his sister for their father. 
The sister first prevaricates, and then tells him that their father has been killed by a 
grizzly bear. The brother goes to kill the grizzly bear. He shows his strength by 
shooting at a tree, which falls over. He kills the grizzly bear with his arrow, skins 
it, and takes his father’s scalp. He returns, and he and his sister move camp. 
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41. Te Mink (VAEU 23).—Mink has three brothers. He is the lover of the Grizzly- (170) 
Bear woman, and Grizzly Bear tries to kill the brothers. He gives them a basket 
which he sid contains berries. As soon as Bear is gone, Mink opens the basket 
1 / ae (E. R. Young, Algonquin Indian Tales, p. 246). 
Apache, Jicarilla (Goddard PaAM 8:237). 
Arikara (Dorsey CI 17:143). 
Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:104). 
Cherokee (Mooney RBAE 19:271). 
Cora (K. T. Preuss, Die Nayarit-Expedition, Leipzig, 1912, p. 209). 
Eskimo, Asiatic (Bogoras BBAE 68). 
Natchez (Swanton JAFL 26:202 [No. 10]). 
Oaxaca (P. Radin and A. Espinosa, El Folklore de Oaxaca, pp. 124, 193; Boas JAFL 25:214). 
Ojibwa (Radin GSCan 43, 44). 
Piegan (Michelson JAF L 29:409). 
Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11:111). 
Tarahumare (Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1:302). 
Thompson (Teit JE 8:395; JA FL 29:326). 
Zuani (Cushing, Zuni Folk-Tales, p. 277). 
See Dihnhardt, Natursagen 4:54; Araucanian, Brazil, Cherokee, NA Negro, Tupi; for North American 
negroes, also Parsons JAFL 39:174, 225; also Kamerun, Cross River (Alfred Mansfeld, Urwald 
Dokumente, Berlin, 1908, p. 224); Hottentot (Leonhard Schultze, Aus Namaland und Kalahari, 
Jena, 1907, p. 528); Visayan (Millington and Maxfield JAFL 20:315). 
2 See discussion Boas RBAE 31:611, 659, 687, 718, 868. 
3 Apache, Jicarilla (Mooney AA 11: 210). 
Arapaho (Dorsey and Kroeber FM 5:11). 
Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:157). 
Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:57). 
Chinook (Boas BBAE 20:21). 
Cree (Russell, Expl. in Far North 205). 
Fox (Jones PAES 1:103). 
Gros Ventre (IKXroeber PaAM 1:87). 
Hupa (Goddard UCal 1:128 [sea-saw]). 
Lillooet (Teit JA FL 25:370). 
Modoe (Curtin 154). 
Osage (Dorsey FM 7:26). 
Pawnee (Dorsey CI 59:179, 474, also 235 [slide]). 
Ponca (Dorsey CNAE 6:161; JAFL 1:74; Am Ant 9:97). 
Quinault (Farrand JE 2:82). 
Seshelt (Hill-Tout JAT 34:49). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:260, 262). 
Thompson (Teit JE 8:252). 
Yana (Sapir UCal 9:234 [elastic tree]). 
