MYTH OF THE BEAR AND THE ANTELOPE. 123 



giug) tchu'kshtka sh%u'tka. Sh^shapamtch g^lapka tcM'kshtat; tdt^S- 



beiiig) on the leg he crossed (her). Old Grizzly stepped on the leg; to the 



lampani gdggutk Ampu pil'nua m4kshatka. Tchiii wudu'pka mdkshatka 



midst (of river) coming water she draok from the skull-cap. And she struck with the sknllcap 



Shii'ksliam tchu'ksh punuiank u'hlitchug. Shu'kamtch shawiguk Shasha- 3 



Crane's leg after drinking, to shake out (the Old Crane angried Old 



water). 



pamtchash shnindu'wa ambutat; tchui nt^-ish i'ktchapgli Shu'kamtch, 



Grizzly doused into the water; then a bow fetched at home Old Crane, 



nge-ishan Sh4shapamtchash. Wiwalaga tchuk geknank shlu'lushtat, Sho'k- 



Bhot Old Grizzly, The yonng then came out of the whistle, Crane's 



antelope.^ 



sham wew^kalam sha hu'nk tdldshitko nge-ishan Shashapamtchash ; tchui 6 



of the children they .irmed with the shot Old Grizzly; then 



arrows. 



sha shiiiga. 



they killed (her). 



NOTES. 



The myth of the Bear and the Antelope is one of the most attractive and best 

 stylicized of this collection. It forms a whole mythic story by itself, and not a series 

 of myths like the jjieceding article. The Grizzly Bear's figiu'e is drawn in very 

 natural and characteristic outlines, and the same may be said of the other animals of 

 the story. Some archaic words seem to prove that the myth has been handed down 

 for many centuries to the present generation, which repeats it to the offspring' with the 

 same expressions as used by the parents. Tlie archaic terms alluded to are Shashap- 

 amtch, ps6psha, p.slie-utfwash, kiikui, tchitchii; probably also lepleputea. 



118, 1. 7. Shiishapamtch alternates in this tale with LiVkamtch, the "Grizzly Bear 

 of the Ancients," and so does Iii'kaga with shasli4pka. -4mtch, -Amtchiksh is the 

 usual attribute "old'" appended to mythologic characters. In the mythologic stories of 

 the Indians bearcubs always appear two in number, the older and the younger one. 

 The same may be said of the ma.jority of the other quadrupeds; cf. the two young of 

 Old Anteloije, in tliis story, and t/6wag, 105, 9, as well as of many of the personified 

 powers of nature. Cf. the term lepleputiia. 



118, 7. 119, 2. gi'nk or kinka: a little, not mucli; m6-ishi contains the particle! or 

 hi: "on the ground". 



119, 9. pu'kpuka: she craclced hard ipo-roots, feigning to crack lice which she pre- 

 tended to have found on the antelope's body. Picking lice from each others' heads 

 (gutash kshikla) and eating them is a disgusting practice which travellers have 

 observed among all Indians of North and South America. 



119, 10. n^nuk: the whole of her body. 



119, 11. ipene'pfi: to place something into a basket or receptacle which is already 

 filled to the brim. 



119,20. 21. hu t m^lametc. The construction is as follows: " mdlam p'gi'shap hu't 

 mdkle;^uk shu'dsha, p'gi'.sba laggay^pkash hu'nk killi't, liunkiamsham shu'dshash": 

 your mother made a fire out there because she must have passed the night there, and 

 because she hung up this anus on a stick, while the Indians (who gave meat to both 

 of us) had a camp-fire. 



