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Once he gave a feast and invited persons to it from other places. 

 He had two skives after that, named Gidzage/t and Gidzana'qiu. 

 This is why the natives here had shxves. It was on account of his 

 example. There was a man who had no arm, so Raven thought he 

 would be a shaman and cure him. This is how the Tlingit came to 

 have shamans. After there was death he showed them how to dance 

 over the body placed in the mitldle of the floor. 



Raven also taught the people how to make halibut hooks, and 

 went out fishing with them. He had names for the halibut hooks 

 and talked to them before he let them down into the sea. That is 

 why the natives do so now. He also taught them to be very quick 

 when they went out halibut fishing or they would catch nothing. 



He also made different kinds of fish traps and taught the people 

 how to use them. He made the small variety and a big trap, shaped 

 like a barrel, for use in the Stikine. 



He taught them how to make the seal spear (IvAt). It has many 

 barbs, and there are different kinds. One is called tsa-CAxictdza's. 

 It is provided with some attachment that hits the seal (tsa) upon 

 the head whenever it comes to the surface, driving its head under 

 water until it dies, and that is what the name signifies. 



Then he showed them how to make a canoe. This he did on the 

 Queen Charlotte islands. At first the people were afraid to get 

 into it, but he said, "The canoe is not dangerous. People will seldom 

 get dro^\med." 



He taught them how to catch a salmon called tcqe'n, which requires 

 a different kind of hook from that used for halibut. The place where 

 he taught people how to get different kinds of shellfish is a beach 

 on the Queen Charlotte islands called Raven's beach to this day. 



After he was through teaching the people these things, he went 

 under the ocean, and when he came back, taught them that the sea 

 animals are not what we think they are, but are like human beings. 

 First he went to the halibut people. They have a chief who invited 

 him to eat, and had dried devilfish and other kinds of dried fish 

 brought out. He was well liked everywhere he went under the sea 

 because he was a very smart man. After that he went to see the 

 sculpin people, who were very industrious and had all kinds of things 

 in their houses. The killer-whale people seemed to live on hair-seal 

 meat, fat, and oil. Their head chief was named GonaqAde't, and 

 even to this day the natives say that the sight of him brings good 

 fortune. 



"WTiile he was under the ocean he saw some people fishing for hali- 

 but, and he tried to tease them by taking hold of their bait. They, 

 however, caught him by the bill and pulled him up as far as the 

 bottom of their canoe, where he braced himself so that they pulled 

 his bill out. They did not know what this bill was and called it 



