6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 39 



Raven put all of the salmon except one fat piece cut from around the 

 "navel "*? which is usually cooked separately, into the skunk cabbage 

 and buried it in the fire. Before they returned, he dug this up and 

 ate it, after which he put the bones back into the fire and covered 

 them up. 



When the birds at last came back he said to them, "I have been 

 across two mountains myself. Now it is time to dig it u]). Dig it 

 out." Then all crowded around the fire and dug, but, when they got 

 it up, there was nothing there but bones. 



By and by the birds dressed one another in different w^ays so that 

 they might be named from their dress. They tied the hair of the 

 blue jay up high with a string, and they added a long tail to the 

 tslegeni', another crested bird. Then they named one another. 

 Raven let out the ts!eotni' and told him that when the salmon comes 

 he must call its slime imclean and stay high up until the salmon are 

 all gone.'' 



Now Raven started off with the jnece of salmon belly and came to 

 a place where Bear and his wife lived. He entered and said, "My 

 aunt's son, is this you? The piece of salmon he had buried behind 

 a little point. Then Bear told him to sit d;)wn and said, "I will roast 

 some dry salmon for you." So he began to roast it. After it was done, 

 he set a dish close to the fire and slit the back of his hands with a 

 knife so as to let grease run out for Raven to eat on his salmon. 

 After he had fixed the salmon, he cut a piece of flesh out from in 

 front of his thighs and put it into the dish. That is why bears are 

 not fat in that place. 



Now Raven wanted to give a dinner to Bear in return, so he, too, 

 took out a piece of fish, roasted it, set out the dish Bear had used, 

 close to the lire and slit up the back of his hand, thinking that grease 

 would run out of it. But instead nothing but white bubbles came 

 forth. xVlthough he knew he could not do it, he tried in every way. 



Then Raven asked Bear, "Do you know of any halibut fishing 

 ground out here?" He said "No." Raven said, "Why! what is the 

 use of staying here by this salt water, if you do not know of any fishing 

 ground? 1 know a good fishing ground right out hem called Just- 

 on-the-edge-of-kelp (Gl'cklicuwAnyi'). There are always hahbut 

 swimming there, mouth up, ready for the hook." 



By and by Raven got the piece of fish he had hidden beliind the 

 point and went out to the bank in company with Bear and Cormorant. 

 Cormorant sat in the bow, Bear in the middle, and, because he knew 

 where the fishing ground was, Raven steered. When they arrived 

 Raven stopped the canoe all at once. He said to them, "Do you see 



c Perhaps the anal opening. 



bSee Twenty-sixth A nnual Report of Bureau of A mericaii Ellinulugy, p. 455. 



