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" He took off the raven skin and put it down near the hole of the sky. He went on, and came to a spring near the house of the chief of heaven. There he sat down and waited. Then the chief's daughter came out, carrying a small bucket in which she was about... "
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the ... - Page 61
by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1916
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Tsimshian Texts, Issues 25-27

Franz Boas - 1902 - 256 pages
...fetch water. She walked down to the spring in front of her father's house.i Then Sucking-intestines transformed himself into the leaf of a cedar, and...floated on the water. The chief's daughter dipped it up into her basket and drank it. Then she returned. She entered her father's house. After a short time...
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Tsimshian Texts

Franz Boas - 1902 - 256 pages
...fetch water. She walked down to the spring in front of her father's house.1 Then Sucking-intestines transformed himself into the leaf of a cedar, and floated on the water. The chief s daughter dipped it up into her basket and drank it. Then she returned. She entered her father's...
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Annual Reports, Volume 31

1916 - 1054 pages
...draw water Ts 5, Nea, N. She caught the bird [birds Nea] and took it into the house Ts 5, Nea, Ne6. [He transformed himself into the leaf of a cedar and floated on thewater N (here the version N breaks off and continues as the tale of the liberation of daylight,...
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Tales of the North American Indians

Stith Thompson - 1966 - 420 pages
...off the raven skin and put it down near the hole of the sky. He went on, and came to a spring near the house of the chief of heaven. There he sat down...with child, and not long after she gave birth to a boy.44 Then the chief and the chieftainess were very glad. They washed the boy regularly. He began...
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Tales of the North American Indians

Stith Thompson - 2000 - 436 pages
...fetch water. She went down to the big spring in front of her father's house. When Giant saw her com1ng along, he transformed himself into the leaf of a cedar...she gave birth to a boy.'' Then the chief and the chieftainess were very glad. They washed the boy regularly. He began to grow up. Now he was beginning...
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North American Indian Legends

Allan A. Macfarlan - 2001 - 436 pages
...off the raven skin and put it down near the hole of the sky. He went on, and came to a spring near the house of the chief of heaven. There he sat down...after she gave birth to a boy. Then the chief and the chieftainess were very glad. They washed the boy regularly. He began to grow up. Now he was beginning...
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