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inside of it, took strings of salmon as the bear liad done, anil started 

 on. "V-VHien he came in front of tlie houses he acted just Hke the two- 

 headed man. First he entered tlie two-headed man's house and shook 

 his skin, whereupon his brothers and the (h)g passed behind the screens 

 in the rear of the house and hid themselves. After that he began 

 fixing his salmon, and, wlien he was through, took off his coat and 

 hung it up in the manner that had been described to him. 



Toward evening a great deal of noise was heard outside, made over 

 some object. Lqlaya'k! very much wanted to go out and look, but 

 they tried to prevent him. Finally he did go out and began to play 

 with the object, whereu]H)n the players rolled it on him and cut him in 

 two. After that the two brothers next older went out and were cut 

 in two in the same manner. After this KAcklA'Lk! sent his dog out. 

 He seized the object, shook it and made it fly to the tops of the moun- 

 tains, where it made the curved shapes the mountains have to-day. 

 Then it rolled right l)ack again. When it rolled back, the dog became 

 very angry, seizetl it a second time, shook it hard, and threw it so 

 high that it went clear around the sun. It made the halo of light seen 

 there. Then IvAcklA^Lk! took his brothers' bodies, ])ieced them 

 together, ])ut red paint upon them and shook his rattle over them. 

 They came to life again. Then he took the dog, made it small, and 

 put it under his arm; and they started off. Since that time people 

 have had the kind of spear (dina') above referred to. The brothers 

 started on with it, ami, whenever they were hungry, they got food 

 with it. They always kept together. 



After a while they came across some Athapascan Indians called 

 Worm-eating peo])le (Wun-xa qoan). These were so named because, 

 when they killed game, they let worms feed upon it, and, when the 

 worms had become big enough, they ate them through holes in the 

 middle of their foreheads wliich served them as mouths. Lq!aya'k! 

 wanted to be among these Athapascans, because they had bows and 

 arrows and wore quills attached to their hair. They used their bo\vs 

 and arrows to shoot caribou, and, when they were pursuing this animal, 

 they used to eat snow. 



After Lqlaya'k! had obtained his bow and arrows they came out 

 at a certain place, probably the Stikine river, and stayed among 

 some people who were whipping one another for strength, in the sea. 

 Every morning they went into the water with them. 



At that time they thought that Lqlaya'k! was going with his sister, 

 and they put some spruce gum around the place where she slept. 

 Then they found the spruce gum on him and called him all sorts of 

 names when they came from bathing. They called him jMessenger- 

 with-pitch-on-his-thigh (Naqa'ni qlAcgii'qlo), the messenger being 

 a brother-in-law of the people of the clan giving a feast. They named 

 him so because they were very much ashamed. This is why pet)ple 



