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amoiio- them tliat lie luanitHl tliere and remained with them forever. 

 Then liis brothers-in-law gave liim an eagle skin witli which he caiiglit 

 all kinds of fish. Some of tliese he left where his mother and l)rothers 

 could find them, and he told them in a dream what had become of him, 

 and that it was ho that was providing them with food. One day they 

 saw him l)ringing in some tish, and heard him say, "It is I." 



71. Story of the Killer-whale Crest of the DaqlIawe'di 



A man quarreled so much with his wife that his brothers became 

 ashamed of it and left him on an island out at sea. There he whittled 

 out from various kinds of wood killer whales, to which he endeavored 

 to give life, and was finally successful with yellow cedar. He sent 

 these out to upset his brothers-in-law's canoes and destroy them. 



7!2. Story of the Nanyaa'yi Crests 



At the time of the flood a grizzly bear and a mountain goat accom- 

 panied tiie Nanyaa'yi as they were clim1)ing a mountain. Since then 

 they have used thos(> animals as crests. 



73. Story of the Fro(; Crest of the Kiksa'di of Wrangell 



A youth kicked a frog over on its back and lost his senses. His 

 body was taken home, but his soul had l)een captured by the frogs. 

 He was tied to a post by them until the chief came home, who 

 upbraided him for having treated one of his own people, also a 

 KiksA'dii, in this manner. Then he let him go, and immediately his 

 body revived. He told his friends all that had happened to him. 



74. Story of the Ka'gwantan Crests 



A man removed a bone from the mouth of a wolf and next night 

 dreamed that he had come to a fine town where the wolf told him 

 something that would make him luck3\ 



"While members of this clan were out camping, a bear stole some fish 

 by reaching down through the smoke hole. Then they called it a 

 thief, and it became so angry that it destroyed all of them. After- 

 ward the people made war on all of those bears — who were Katsl's 

 children (see story 10) — and destroyed them. 



75. Migration of the Ganaxa'di to Tongass 



A man at Klawak lost all of his property in gambling, and his wife 

 left him. Then he took the sons of his seven sisters and started away 

 by canoe. Finally they settled at Tongass. While there they saw an 

 animal that looked like a bear and shot at it, but it was medicine, and 

 a clayey substance came ofi' on their arrow points, which enabled 

 them to get plenty of game, and which also caused them to become 



