swAXTON] TLINGIT MYTHS AND TEXTS 399 



This RtivPH did to the ^V^olf^s town just as if he were taking me out 

 of the water." 



Now^ he is going- to use himself as a paddle so that he will be seen 

 around his Wolf ])hratry's canoe. 



(40) Composed by Kfdia^^e'k of the Ka'gwAntan. 



Inuwu' gedi' wuctuka'odjitan vAgodji', Wuckita'n jA'tqli age'ql 



Your fort inside of wants to put itself this Wolf Wuckita'n's children inside 



phratry of it 



tsa gAX tuxe'q!". 



so we shall sleep. 



Yel jAX kogwati' Kii'gwAntan yA'tqIi. Dogo'dji tux yekgwagu'ttc. 



Raven like areg'iing Kfi/gwAntan's ehildren. His Wolf among he is going, 



to be phratry 



Tliis Wolf phratry wants to put itself inside of j^our fort, 

 Wuekita'n's cliildren, so that we can sleep. " 



The Kfi'gwAntfurs children are going to be like Raven. He is 

 going among the people of his Wolf phratry. 



(41) Composed by Saxa' of the Kfi'gwAntan. 



. Xtltc xati'n jek nlya'. Gu'sli hayinA'x tela wugaa't. Axsati' sAk" 



It is I see spirits that will Cloud from down right they get. My masters for 

 come to me. under 



yel nni' kAt UAgafi't. 



Raven town on they will walk. 



I ctin see the spirits that are going to come to me. They will go 

 luidcr a cloud. They will be my masters who will walk in the Raven 

 town. 



(42) Composed by Crying-[wolf] (Ga'xe) of the Chilkat Ka'gwAntan. 

 Wa'sA AC uAsini' ditca'k!. Duye'li Acdti't kAuAtyi'tctc. Deki'q! 



I wonder has done to him the eagle. His Raven around always flies. In the air 



what [phratry] him 



Acda't kAuAMu'Lltc bngi't-a'ni aJ yAx yeq! utclA's dutuwu' diye'l. 



arf>und they would fly world not like he made his mind this Raven, 



him very (juickly 



Hiitc! hAsdutuwu' diye'i liAsduki'di liAsdunA'q yen nagu'. 



Finally their minds this Raven their from them there went. 



killer whale 



I wonder what the Eagle has done to him. His Raven phratry 

 always flies tiiound him. They fl}' around thickly unlike Raven when 

 he made the world. 



[The transhition of the last paragraph is imcertain. J 



(43) This was sung by New-rich (Yisgana'lx), chief of the Auk 

 people, when he defeated a Yakutat chief in a property contest, as 

 related in story 26. 



XAt kAnlidi'xasi yuanqa'wo. Ts!as ti-se'L!i aqle'x aosiA'x. 



I am very much the chief. Only cedar bark with it he made a 



ashamed of preten.se. 



aComplimentary metaphorical terms used toward the opposite phratry. 



