448 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 'M 



97. The Four Brothers 



In order to destroy a malovolciit sluiman four ])rothers let their sis- 

 ter marry liiin, took licr back, and got her to tell them the location of 

 her hushand's heart. They killed him outside of King- island, Sitka 

 sound, and took away his red-snapper coat. One of these brothers, 

 named Lqlayfi'k!, then put this on and used it in the pursuit of large 

 animals. By and by ho pursued an animal up into the sky and his 

 footprints formed the Milky Way." 



9S. The Kiksa'di Woman v ho avas Turned into an Owl 

 Another version of stor}' ^T. 



99. MOLDV-ENI) 



A small boy made an angry remark about a })iece of moldy sahnon 

 and wtis carried off b}' the salmon ])Cople to their town. When he 

 became hungry he began eating the salmon eggs lying upon the Ix-ach, 

 but Avas told that they were salmon dung. Finding that he was home- 

 sick, his sahnon father diverted him by sending him to Anmsement 

 creek and placing his arms around two sand-hill cranes. I^y and by 

 the}' started ])ack with him, and passed through something called sTt 

 whicli opens and closes, and scars those salmon which are caught in it. 

 When they camped they made other scars by throwing hot rocks u})on 

 one another, as if cooking. Then they met the herring tril)e, with 

 which they had a verl)al contest, and finally announced what creeks 

 the}' would enter. The ))oy's father went to Daxe't, wIkm-c the boy let 

 his human father spear him. When his mother ])egan to'cut him open 

 she discovered liis copper necklace, and concluded it was her son. His 

 father put him into a basket and placed it upon the roof, where his spirit 

 began to woi"k in him, and he turned back into a man. Then he 

 became a great shaman and told the people what had happened to him. 

 By and ))y he tested his spirits by sending a raft load of his people 

 over a waterfall under the sea. The next morning it came up with all 

 the people safe. He sent his clothes-man to spear land otter, and, 

 although he had him throw iiis spear across a point at an invisible 

 animal, it struck the land otter on the tip of the tail and killed it. He 

 lived to be more than a hundi'ed. 



100. M()I,I)V-EM) 



Wrangell version of tiie above story, more detailed in the main por- 

 tion l)ut without the last episode. 



lol. QaqIatcgu'k 

 Another version of storv 67. 



oThis is part of ji loiig-cr story oi which story 3 isonu version while a second is contained in story SL 



