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54. SUN-RAY WHO MISTREATED HIS WIFE. 
Man and his wife live alone. He is good hunter, bringing home much game, 
but treats his wife meanly and she tries to leave him, though is always unsuccessful, 
finding herself at each attempt inside rattle hanging at his belt. She tells people of 
her husband’s cruelty, and lives withthem. Her husband returning home from hunt 
goes to village, points his rattle toward it, his wife does not appear, and he goes to 
other villages doing the same until his wife appears in his rattle, and he takes her to 
their home. Again he goes on hunt, and woman goes to creek and cries. Beavers 
take her into their lodge. Husband again recovers her by his rattle, and warns her 
that she can not escape from him, and in his anger throws hot coals at her. She 
becomes a mole, digs down under mortar, escapes from lodge, passes out on ground, 
and goes to distant village, leaving no trail, for she has covered her feet with grass. 
He enters village as sun ray, discovers her, and she returns to his rattle. He becomes 
man and people abuse him, saying that he belongs in heavens and has no right to 
mistreat an earthly woman. He throws rattle on ground and woman wakes up. 
He pulls string of his rattle, she enters, and he takes her home and releases her. He 
now repents and returns, placing her in his rattle and takes her home. He becomes 
Sun-Ray and goes back to sun. 
55. HAWK SLAYS THE FIRE-KEEPER. 
In beginning, Fire-Keeper has his home with people in west, but he does not like 
them. On west of their village is deep river, across which live two Hawk brothers. 
They have magic log by which they cross river. Older crosses and gets wife, daugh- 
ter of priest. Fire-Keeper, priest’s brother, decides to kill young man, because he 
was not consulted regarding marriage. After a while woman gives birth to boy. 
Husband crosses river and visits his brother during fog. As he leaves log he is seized 
by mysterious being. Being strips him of his clothing and burns it and he loses his 
eyes. His captor leads him for many days till they arrive at his home, where he is 
made slave. Child cries for his father. Mother goes to lodge of her brother-in-law 
across river. Brother takes child, but it cries louder. She takes her child and 
huntsherhusband. Atriver’s bank she discovers fragments of his clothing, and she 
follows his tracks toward west until she comes to big fire inside tipi. Then she 
discovers her uncle, painted red, and her husband, who is made to stir fire. Woman 
begs in vain for her husband. Her blind husband comes out of lodge and his child 
stops crying. She enters and secures her husband’s half-burned war club and they 
travel east many days. At his request she leads him on rocky hill with steep sides, 
places him at edge with his feet hanging down, and pushes him over at his earnest re- 
quest beforesunrise. She starts toward foot of precipice and encounters her husband 
in his normal condition, fully costumed. He starts forward to revenge himself on her 
uncle, and she goes to her brother-in-law and they go to her people, who are await- 
ing her husband. At night they see fire flying through sky and they know that he 
has killed Fire-Keeper. He did this by turning into Hawk, striking Fire-Keeper 
on head. Then turning into human being, he threw fire through sky in different 
directions, announcing that warriors should receive help from stars’ light. On his 
return home he is thanked by animals and by birds, who call him Warrior-Bird. 
Brothers tell girl’s father that when they die their skulls should be kept in sacred 
bundles, to use as protectors while on war-path; that priests (owls) should remain at 
home as guardians of people. 
