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(Island people) . The Kosk !e'di, originally a part of the l !uk InAXA'di, 

 used to encamp at a certain place where they dug the root s!in. 

 This root pressed is known as tiAganisklex, and the Koskle'di 

 receive their name from this word." The Koskle'di built a house and 

 roofed it with moose hide. So they came to own the Moose house 

 (Xaslhit). 



The wives of the LiuklnAxA'di were Ka'gwAntan. They (the 

 Ka'gwAntan) were invited to Chilkat by a chief named Tailless-Raven 

 (Ckii'wu-yel). In the same town they were about to fell a tree to 

 make a totem pole out of it, and just before they did so CqeLaqa', a 

 shaman, interviewed liis spirits. When they struck the tree with an 

 ax he said, "The chip went toward Huna. How is it that it went 

 toward Huna?" And, when the tree fell, he said, "It fell toward 

 Huna. How is it that it fell toward Huna?" This spirit's name was 

 AnlvAxwa/i, and the pole was carved to resemble him. Wlien it was 

 brought in he said, "How is it that there is something wrong with 

 these people we have invited. My spirit sees that there is something 

 wrong with them." Then they made a raven hat, and the spirit in 

 the shaman said, "The raven you made has been shot with an arrow. 

 Many arrows are sticking into its body and blood is coming from its 

 mouth." 



The people giving the feast gave a great deal of property away to 

 the Ka'gwAntan. Each man in the family woukl give so many slaves 

 and so much in goods. On their way home from this feast the 

 L!uk!nAXA'di also made a raven, and some time later they went to a 

 feast at the Ka'gWx\ntan village of IvAqlAnuwii'. Close to that place 

 Q!one', chief of the L!uk!nAXA'di, put on the raven hat. Its tail and 

 beak were made of copper, and the wings were copper plates. It had 

 a copper plate lying in front of it at which it pecked. iJidvhiAXA'di 

 also lived among the Ka'gwAntan in that town, and they said, "Where 

 has that raven been?" The canoe people answered, "Why! this 

 raven has been at Chilkat." "What did it eat at Chilkat?" "All 

 that it ate at Chilkat was salmon skins." B}^ salmon skins they 

 meant the furs and hides that had been given away. Then they took 

 tlie wings from this raven and the copper he had been pecking at and 

 threw them ashore for the Ka'gwAntan. They said, "Those are 

 worth forty slaves." Before, when the GanAxte'di (of Chilkat) had 

 feasted and used their own raven hat, they spoke so highly of it that 

 the LlidvlnAXA'di had become jealous. 



By and by news of wdiat the L!uk!nAXA'di had done reached Chilkat, 

 and the GanAxte'di were very angry. They began to build Whale 

 house (Ya'i liit). Then they began to buy slaves in all quarters. 

 They bought some De/citan, some Tcu'kAnedi,and some L!ene'di,and, 



a Probably erroneous. Of. story 104. 

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