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She lived therefor a long time, contiiiiially cr^'ing out of doors, but 

 she was really crying for joy because she intendetl to kill all of the killer 

 whales. 



While sitthig outside one chiy a kek!" (a small sea gull with black 

 head and white body) flew past, and Raven said, "Hero comes the man 

 I made white." By and by she saw another, called kuLle'ta, also 

 white, and repeated the same words. Then some swans came along 

 far up in the sky, and she said the same thmg about them. The 

 killer whales heard all this and said, ''Since you have made them 

 white, can't you make us white also?" "It will hurt you to be made 

 white," said Kaven. "Those people that came along were made 

 white because they were brave." Then she sharpened the same hard- 

 w^ood stick wdth which she had killed her husband and told all of the 

 killers to lie in a tow. She began pounding this into their ears, and so 

 killeil all of them but the last. This looked up in time to see what she 

 was domg and rushed into the sea saying, "Raven has finished us 

 sure enough" (QothagA'sinl'yel). Raven remained there for some 

 time eating the whales she had killed. 



The reason why there are so many cowards among men nowadays 

 is because Raven, being a man, made himself into a woman at that 

 time. The people that live single all their lives are such as came from 

 Raven at that period. This is also why thieves are great talkers and, 

 when they have gotten into trouble, have a way of getting out, and 

 why some women are bad and deceive their husbands; for Raven said 

 that his husband had wanted to be buried a long way from town, and 

 they l)elieved him. This is why the Tlingit used to be very careful of 

 the way they s})oke and even of the way they walked when in public.'* 



After that Raven came to a fishhawk (kunackAnye't) and exclaim- 

 ing, "Oh! my friend." entered its house, where was a great (piantity 

 of food. He felt very happy at the sight, and said to the bird, "I 

 will stay with you all winter." Then he stayed so long that the 

 hawk began to get tiretl of him, because Raven would not work. 

 When he saw that the bird was getting weary of him he would say, 

 "The time for me to work hasn't come yet. When I work you will 

 have plenty of rest. You will not have to do a thing. This beach 



a "Tills part of the .story was rorerred to when one wished to Imply that a person was trying to make 

 people believe that he was better than he really was. So nowadays, when a high-caste man wants to 

 marry an orphan, people fmd out who her father is, because Raven made believe her own father was a 

 chief. Some women will go off to a strange place and say falsely, 'I am so-and-so's daughter,' malcing 

 peoi)le thuik that she In-longs to a very high family. The same sort of woman wiU assume mourning 

 for her husband, and make people l)elieve she is mourning when she is really thinking what she is going 

 to do and where she is going. If she finds out she can get her living falsely, she will keep on being false. 

 That is why Raven told so many stories about her husband's death. When a mother sees that her 

 girl is very fooUsh, she wiU say to her, 'When you marry and become a widow, you will oat up your 

 husband's body,' meaning that, if her husband leaves her any property, she will use it up foolishly. 

 She also says to her, ' Vou are so foolish now, I believe you will steal after you are married,' meaning 

 that she will ))e foolish with what her huslsand cams. Tlien.she says, 'They will fmd you out by find- 

 ing something of yours in the i)lace where you have been, and it will be a disgrace to your brothers and 

 your father.' " (From the writer's informant.) 



