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The people he restored to Hfe after they had been dead for very 

 many years had very deep set eyes and did not get well at once. 



After that he went to a town where the people were all well and 

 killed some of them with liis blanket. Then ho went to the other 

 people in that place and said, "How are your friends? Are they 

 dead?" "Yes." "Well I know a way of making them well." He 

 went up to them again with his blanket and brought them back to life. 

 They were perfectly well. 



This man went around everywhere doing the same tiling and be- 

 came very famous. AVhenever one was sick in an}^ place they came 

 after him and offered liim a certain amount for his services, so that 

 he became the richest man of his time. 



9. WOLVERINE-I^IAN 



There were people living in a certain town on the mainland. You 

 know that m olden times the people did not use guns. They hunted 

 with bows and arrows, and horn spears, and it was very hard work to 

 use them. So, when they were going hunting, they had to fast and 

 wash their heads in urine. That is why in all of these stories — which I 

 am telling you just as they were told in the olden times — food was 

 very scarce and hard to get. Success depended on what things were 

 used and how people prepared themselves. 



One day a certain man at this place began preparing himself by 

 washing his head m urine, and the following morning he dressed and 

 started up the valley carrying his horn spear. At tlie head of this 

 valley he saw a flock of mountain sheep, but he could not get at them, 

 so he camped over night. In the morning he saw that a wolverine 

 (nusk) was among these sheep killing them off. 



Next evenmg he reached the top of the mountain and started mto 

 the brush to camp, but came to a house with the door wide open for 

 him. On the inside hung pieces of fat from all kinds of animals the 

 wolverine had killed. He wanted to go in very much, but instead he 

 sat down m the brush near by and waited. 



Presently a man came along carrying a pack. This was Wolverine- 

 man (Nu'sgu-qa). He said, ''My trader, you are here. Wliy don't 

 you step inside?" Then they entered, and Wolverme-man took off 

 his clothes and began ^^Tinging them out just like a human being. 

 Then he heated some hot rocks, took his half basket, chopped up the 

 bones of a ground hog and put these into it along with the cooking 

 stones. Then he said to the man, " Give me that kAndALa'x. Give 

 me that klAxA'kaok." These were his own words which he was 

 teaching to this man, and they mean, ' ' Give me my dish. Give me my 

 little spoon." So, when one went up to the top of this mountain m 

 olden times he called his dishes and spoons by those names. 



