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finally kilknl this l)ir(l, took out its sinews, and worked them into a 

 very small thread. As soon as they threw this around the monster's 

 head it eame ofT. Then they took ofT its sealp, which had lono; hair 

 like that of other shamans, and the rest of its head turned into a rock 

 at that place. They now had two principal scalps from the two big 

 monsters they had killed. 



Wlien the ])rothers now returned to the old man and related what 

 had happened, he felt very good and said, "There would have been 

 no person living. This monster would have killed them all, if you 

 liad not destroyed it." Everybody who heard that the monster 

 was dead, was glad, and did not fear to go to that place any more. 



After this they returned to their mother and sister. At that time 

 their sister had just reached puberty and was shut up in the house 

 with a mat curtain hung in front of her. So they hung the shaman's 

 scalp up in front of the curtain. They also made her drink water 

 through the leg bones of geese and swans so that she should not touch 

 the drinking cu])s. Her mother i)ut a large liat upon her so that she 

 shoidd not look at anything she was forbidden to see. If one shouted 

 that a canoe was coming, or that anything else was taking place 

 that she wanted to witness, she did not dare to look out. Since her 

 time these same regulations have been observed. 



Then thev left that jdace and moved south through the interior. 

 Having killed oil the ocean monsters, they were now going to kill 

 those in the forest. Besides that, they hunted all of this time, kill- 

 ino- bear, ground hogs, and other animals; but their sister was not 

 allowed to look at any of them. Among other wild animals they told 

 the wolverine and wolf that they must not kill human l)eings but be 

 friendly with them. They killed ground hogs, mountain sheep, and 

 other animals for them and told them that that was what they were 

 to live u])on. 



At one i)lace they saw a smoke far off in the woods and, advancing 

 toward it, came to the house of a man named He-whose-hands-see 

 (Djinqotl'n). He was so called because he was blind and had his 

 wife aim his arrows for him. He said to Lq!aya'k!, "My wife saw a 

 grizzl}" bear and told me where it was. She aimed my arrow and I 

 shot at it. I felt that I had killed it, but she said I had not. :My 

 wife has left me on account of this, and I don't know where she is or 

 what I am living on or how I am living without her. ' ' Then Lq laya'k ! 

 and his brothers gave him ground-hog skins filled with grease and fat 

 such as the interior })eople used to make, also dried meat. 



While they were in the interior the brothers also made needles out 

 of animal bones and threads out of sinew for their sister to use behind 

 the screen. She worked with porcupine quills and dyed sinews, 

 and it is through her that the interior women are such fine workers 

 with the neetUe. 



