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the deer and pulls out its teeth and makes a tail of grass for it. He tells the deer to SQort when it sees people. He klUs two deer and comes to the town, and people are scared when they see him carrying the deer.

30. Raven (No. 65). — ^A chief wishes that everybody shall die twice. Everybody 213 agrees except Raven, who wants to eat the eyes of corpses. His decision is accepted. The people kill Raven's two children, and he wishes in vain to have the previous decision reversed.*

Ant tightens his belt in order to bury the dead. For that reason the ant has a narrow waist. '^

Raven is hungry and hides the buffalo.^ The people are starving. They ask 215 Beaver to pretend to be dead. Raven appears and wants to eat Beaver's eyes. Beaver holds him, and the people capture him. Raven is taken into the tent where the people are assembled. Coyote sits on top of the smoke hole. Raven refuses to tell where he has hidden the game. Finally he shouts and frightens Coyote, who falls down. Then Raven flies away through the smoke hole. Magpie has good eyes, and sees in what direction Raven is flying. This makes Coyote angry, and he throws dust

1 Apache, Jicarilla (Goddard PaAM 8:194; Russell JAFL 11:258). Arapaho ( Dorsey and Kroeber FM 5: 17, 81 ) . Assinibdn (Lowie PaAM 4:104). Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:20, 21; de Josselln de Jong VKAWA 14:29; Grinnell, Lodge Tales 138, 272). Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:14, 16). Cheyenne (Kroeber JAFL 13:161). CcBor d*A16ne (Teit MAFLS 11:125). CJomanche (Lowie-St. Clair JAFL 22:279). Coos (Frachtenberg CU 1:43; also 4:41). Diegueflo (Du Bols JAFL 14:183). Dog-Rib (Sir John Franklin, Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea [Lon- don, 1828J, p. 293). Eskimo (David Crantz, Historic von Gronland 262). Hare (Petitot 116). Easka (Teit JAFL 30:444). Klamath (Gatschet CNAE 2:103). LiUooet (Teit JAFL 25:356). Maidu (Dixon BAM 17:43,. 46, 47; PAES 4:29, 51; Merriam 55). Miwok (Merriam 55, 132). Navaho (MAFLS 5:77). Pawnee (Dorsey CI 69:44, MAFLS 8:17).Pomo (Merriam 213). Quinault (Farrand JE 2:111). Sanpoil (Gould MAFLS 11 :106). Shasta (Dixon JAFL 23:19; Frachtenberg-Farrand JAFL 28:209). Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:239). Shuswap (Teit JE 2:746). Tahltan (Teit MS). Takelma (Sapir UPenn 2:99). Thompson (Teit JE 8:329, 330; Teit MAFLS 11:1). Ute (Powell RBAE 1:45). Wintun (Curtin, Creation Myths, 163, 174). . Wishosk (Kroeber JAFL 18:96, 99). Yana (Sapir UCal 9:91). See also Luiseno (Du Bois UCal 8:134, 146). » Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:25). » Apache, Jicarilla (Goddard PaAM 8:212; Russell JAFL 11:259). Arapaho (FM 5:275). Beaver (Goddard PaAM 10:250). Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:50; Uhlenbeck VKAWA 13:164; GrinneU, Lodge Tales 145). Chippewayan (Petitot 379; Lowie PaAM 10:184). Ck)manche (Lowie-St. Clair JAFL 22:280). Gros Ventre (Kroeber PaAM 1:65). Kaska (Teit JAFL 30:441).Noz Perc6 (Mayer- Farrand MAFLS 11:162).Pawnee (Dorsey CI 59:43).Thompson (Teit JE 8:241).

See also Caddo (Dorsey CI 41:10).