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in pieces on the rocks. He tried to make a certain place like Nass, 

 but the clams shooting upward drowned his voice and he was unsuc- 

 cessful. He turned to stone two brothers who had started to cross the 

 Stikine. Coming to the ground-hog people, he tried to make them 

 believe that the spring snowslides had begun so that they would throw 

 their surplus food out of doors, but in vain. He had to wait until 

 spring, when they threw it all out, and he gave a feast for his mother 

 with it. Before this took place, however, he obtained the female gen- 

 ital organs from a certain island and put them in their places. Then 

 he invited ever3^body in tiie world to his feast because he wanted 

 to see a dance hat and Chilkat blanket which were owned b}^ the 

 GonaqAde't. Since then peo})le have liked to attend feasts. 



Raven put a woman under the world to attend to the rising and 

 falling of the tides. Once he wanted to go under the ocean, so he had 

 this woman raise the waters, and they went up to the tops of the 

 mountains. They went up slowly, however, so that people had time 

 to load their canoes. The bears which were walking around on the 

 tops of the mountains tried to swim out to them, and those who had 

 dogs were then well protected. Some people walled about the moun- 

 tain tops and kept their canoes inside. All who survived were with- 

 out firewood, however, and died of cold, except some who were 

 turned to stone by Raven along with many animals and lishes. Then 

 the sea went down so far that it was di-y everywhere. Raven and 

 another bird-man went about picking up lishes to boil'the grease out 

 of them, but Raven took only small tisiies like sculijins while the 

 other took whales, etc. Raven scared his companion away and began 

 drinking his grease, but he came back, put Raven into a grease-box, 

 and kicked him off from a high clitf as had happened before. Raven 

 also escaped in the same manner.^ One time Raven invited the bears 

 to a feast, and induced the wren to pull out the entrails of one of 

 them through his anus and thus kill him. Raven had become so 

 great an eater from having eaten the black spots oif his toes. After 

 everj^body had been destroyed at the time of the flood, Raven made a 

 new generation out of leaves, and so it happens that at the time when 

 leaves fall there are man}^ deaths. He made a deviltish digging-stick 

 and went around to all things on the beaches, asking them if they were 

 going to hurt human beings. If they said "No," he left them; if 

 "Yes," he rooted them up. In liis time fern roots were already 

 cooked, but he made them green; while devilfish, which were fat, he 

 made hard. On one occasion he invited all the tribes of little people, 

 and, when they were seated upon mats, he shook them and the little 

 people flew into people's eyes, becoming their pupils. He tried to 

 capture a sculpin in order to eat it, but it slipped between his fingers, 

 and its tail became slender as it is to-day. He threw his blanket upon 



oSee above, p. 417. 



