“You said it was a dog,” he said to his children with whom he was angry, “but he turned them out for us.” The deer scattered all over the earth.

[49]. Told by the father of Frank Crockett.

This is a very widely distributed tale. The owner of the animals is usually Raven or Crow. See this series, vol. 8, 212-4; Russell, 259; Wissler and Duvall, 50-53; Kroeber, 65; this series, vol. 10, 250-251.

[50]. Ganisk'ide is a deity known to the Navajo, Matthews, 37, 244.

Deer Woman.[[51]]

After he married, they went on a hunting trip. When they had established camp where they were to get the deer meat, the man went out to hunt, but the woman stayed at the camp. As the husband left, he said, if anyone came from the north, that would be himself, but if someone came from the east it would be someone else.

Then Ganłjine came there carrying a deer mask in his hand which he put on the brush of which the camp was made, and sat down by the fire. The deer mask was eating as if it were alive and it made a noise like a deer. Ganłjine told the woman to put on the thing which was lying there. She replied that a deer mask was something to be afraid of. “Put it on and let me look at it,” he insisted. “Will it be all right?” she asked him. He told her to put it on anyway, and stand at one side so he could look at it. She put it on and stood at the place designated in the posture of a deer.

He threw a turquoise ring on her, and she became like a deer as far as her neck. Then he threw a ring of bacinϵ on her and an additional portion of her body changed to a deer. Next he threw a ring of tcϵłtcϵϵ, and last, one of yołgai. She was then completely like a deer and walked away, wiggling her tail.

Toward the east there are mountains called Iłijgo. There are four mountains standing in a line, one back of the other. She who used to be a woman and Ganłjine went there together. They were mating as they went along, as could be told from the tracks. Deer tracks were in one place and nearby, other deer tracks, but on one side a man's tracks. They went toward the east.