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have owned Iceberg House. Afterward he went outside and called 

 aloud as if he were inviting people to a feast, upon which a multitude 

 of bears came down, and he feasted them. As they went out they 

 showed their respect for him b}' licking him. 



22. The Woman Taken Away by the Frog People 



A woman in the Yakutat country said something which displeased 

 the frogs, and she was taken away by them. Next spring a man saw 

 her among the frogs. So the people drained the pond and recovered 

 her. She had been living on black mud like the frogs, and after her 

 people got all of this out of her, she died. From this, according to 

 some, the KiksA'di claim the frog crest and names. 



23. How the Frogs Honored the Dead 



A Ka'gwAnbin chief having died, one of his friends called upon the 

 KiksA'di to take care of his bod}-. The frog people, hearing this, 

 thought that they were meant, and when the corpse was being burnt 

 a big frog jumped out from the place, made a noise, and then jumped 

 into the flames. Afterward they captured slaves for the dead man, 

 and, when they put food into the lire for him, they named the frog 

 as well. 



24. The Brant Wives 



A KiksA'di found two women swimming in a pond, seized their coats, . 

 and compelled them to marry him. They were really brants. When 

 the brants came north in the spring his wives obtained food from their 

 people, but when they returned south the wives went with them. The 

 man went after them, and, although they were at first afraid of his 

 bow and arrows, they finally let him live with them. When the}" went 

 north once more, war broke out between the heron people and the 

 brant people, and the man killed so man}" of the former that they 

 made peace. 



25. Story of the Puffin 



A woman used to wish that she might live among the l>irds on a 

 certain island. One time, as she and some other women were endeav- 

 oring to land there, they were capsized and all her companions 

 drowned. Some time afterward her father happened to pass the place 

 and saw his daughter sitting among the birds. He tried to induce the 

 birds in every way to give her up, but succeeded only by offering 

 them some white hair that had l)elonged to his wife's grandfather. 

 Each bird put one of these hairs on its head, and they let the woman 

 go. Because the women who were drowned there were TiA'qIdentan 

 the TiA'qIdentan claim that island. 



