YOUNG-BOY-CHIEF WHO BECAME AN OTTER. 163 
chief’s daughter had to study what to do, and finally told him to get 
the ladder and get up where she was. The chief’s son got the ladder, 
leaned it against the bed and went up to bed with her. Toward morn- 
ing the chief’s son left the place, went home and went to bed. He slept 
until morning. From this time on he would go over and visit the chief’s 
daughter at night, and no one knew anything about it, for the chief’s 
son had asked the chief’s daughter not to let any one know of their meet- 
ings. He also told her that, should she become pregnant, he could fur- 
nish her all the materials used for making a baby cradle; that he had 
sticks already cut, ready for making the cradle, and had dyed hair to 
cover the child’s face when the child should go to sleep; a shell for the 
baby’s use in drinking water, to be worn about its neck; an otter skin 
(used to tie the hair), that could be used for wrapping the baby to the 
cradle; a pad (worn around the necks of men and women) for use under 
the child’s feet, to hold up the feet—it was matted and had weaving on’ 
the breast, and the relic was made out of bones. These were the ma- 
terials he promised the chief’s daughter should she become pregnant; 
but it would be some time before he would bring these things. 
At the chief’s son’s home the men still visited him and sang for 
him, for they thought the young man was what we call “wiasucks,” 
a boy who had never had intercourse with women; but Young-Boy- 
Chief was conscious that he was what we call “waitz,” a man, or a 
married man; for he kept visiting the chief’s daughter by night. 
Some time afterward the chief’s daughter told the chief’s son that she 
was pregnant. The chief’s son told her that he would bring some- 
thing she could use for fixing up a cradle for the child. After this 
the chief’s son left the chief’s daughter and did not return. Finally 
the people found their daughter to be pregnant. They then asked her 
to tell to whom the child belonged, but she would not tell, for Young- 
Boy-Chief had told her not to betray him. Young-Boy-Chief re- 
mained at his home after the chief’s daughter had told him she was 
pregnant. At her home her parents tried to find out to whom her 
child belonged, but she refused to tell. Long afterward, the child was 
born, and the chief’s daughter waited for her man to come back to her 
and bring with him the things that he had promised to bring when he 
should hear of the child’s birth. She waited patiently for this young 
man to do what he had agreed to do. 
At the village the men continued singing for the young man. 
Whenever they sang for him the men formed in a circle; a man was 
placed in the center and the chief’s son was placed on his lap while the 
rest of the men did the singing. When the singing was over the men 
would let the boy go. By so doing the men would get plenty of things 
