CHINOOK 

 BOAS 



J STIKUa' myth TRANSLATION. 143 



under liis blanket, showed it 1o the women aud said]: "Every day 

 your husbands eat this." He put two pieces side by side on the pLiiik, 

 cut them to pieces and greased the heads of all the women and children. 

 Then he pulled the planks forming the walls of the houses out of the 

 ground. He shari)ened them [at one end and] those which were A'ery 

 wide he split in two. He sharpened all of them. The last house of 

 the village was that of Raven. He did not pull out its wall-planks. 

 He put the planks on to the backs of the women and children and said : 

 "Go down to the beach, when you go seaward swim five times around 

 that rock. Then go seaward. When you see sealions you shall kill 

 them. But you shall not give anything to stingy people. I shall take 

 these children down. They shall live on the sea and be my relatives." 



Then he split sinews. The women went into the water and began to 

 jump [out of the water]. They swam five times back and forth in fiont 

 of the village. Then they went seaward plowing through the water 

 Now they went seaward to the place where Blue- Jay and the men were 

 boiling. Blue- Jay said to the men : "What is that?" The men looked 

 and saw the girls jumping. Five times they swam around Blue- Jay's 

 rock. Then they went seaward. After awhile birds came flying to the 

 island. Their bills were |as red] as blood. They followed [the fishj. 

 "Ah," said Blue- Jay: "Do you notice them? Whence come these 

 numerous birds?" The Raven said: "Ha, squinteye, they are your 

 children; do you not recognize them?" Five times they went around 

 that rock. Kow [the boyj threw the sinews down upon the stones and 

 said: "When Blue-Jay comes to gather mussels they shall be fast [to 

 the rocks]." And he said to the women, turning toward the sea: 

 " Whale-Killer will be your name : when you catch a whale you will eat 

 it, but when you catch a seal ion you will throw it away, but you shall 

 not give anything to stingy j^eople." 



Blue-Jay and the people were eating. Then that hunter said: " Let 

 us go home. I am afraid we have seen evil spirits ; we have never seen 

 anything like that on this rock." Now they gathered mussels and car- 

 ried along the meat which they had left over. In the evening they came 

 near their home. [Blue- Jay shouted:] "Stikua', fetch your mussels!" 

 There was no sound of ijeople. Five times he called. Now the people 

 went ashore and [they saw that] the walls of the houses had disap. 

 peared. The people cried. Blue- Jay cried also, but somebody said 

 to him: "Be quiet, Blue- Jay; if you had not been bad our chief's 

 son would not have done so." Now they all made one house. Only 

 Raven had one house [by himself]. He went and searched for food on 

 the beach. He found a sturgeon. He went again to the beach and 

 found a porpoise. Then Blue-Jay went to the beach and tried to search 

 for food. [As soon as he went out] it began to hail; the hail-stones 

 were so large [indicating]. He tried to gather mussels and wanted to 

 break them off, but they did not come off. He could not break them oft'. 

 He gave it up. Raven went to search on the beach and found a seal. 

 The others ate roots only. Thus their chief took revenge on them. 



