Then he took out a dancing hat with sea gulls carved upon it. And at the very edges of the box Big-tail stopped him as he held it. And he asked Supernatural-being-at-whose-voice-the-ravens-sit-on-the-sea: “What will happen when one sings for it?”[6] And he said to him: “There will be two whales.” Then he absolutely refused it.
And he reached his hand into the box for another one. When he [[297]]took that out he also seized that. “What will happen when you sing for it?” “There will be two whales.” That, too, he refused.
Then Supernatural-being-at-whose-voice-the-ravens-sit-on-the-sea became angry. Now he said to him: “This he also refuses. What can you do, Big-tail? I will destroy you with a strong current of water.” And he said to him: “Let it flow at me. Human beings will laugh at you.”
And, when they talked well to each other again, he took another out. While they yet held this one between them, he saw it was a chief’s dancing headdress with the carving of a hawk upon it.[7] And he reached right into the box for it. And they held it between them in the box.
Then he again asked him: “What will happen when one sings for it?” And he said to him: “There will be ten whales.” He also refused that. While they held the dancing hat between them, some handsome persons with curly hair over their foreheads and large eyes kept coming out from behind the screens and going back again. He wanted them and pointed at them. “Let those persons sing.” And he refused to give them away. All that time he also held the dance hat. By and by he let him have [these along with] the headdress. Then they struck the two persons on the nose and pushed them out.
In that house he learned how to tie on the strings of the headdress. When he had finished learning how the flicker feathers were going to be placed upon it, he went away from him again.
Then he imitated the headdress. And, when it was finished, he danced with it on. And he began to say: “The sea otter will come floating.” And he said: “One is floating on the seaward side of Sqai′yas.”[8] Then they went to get it. It was really floating there. As he had seen already, blood was running out of its nose. After that, as he sat in the house, he told them where another one was floating. And when they went there it was really so.
Afterward they kept on being found in this way. When one was out in a good place where currents met, he did not count whether there were fifteen, twenty, or ten.[9] Then he said if they would give him and his mother some of them, he would always have them found floating in this way.
Then they began finding whales in the place where he had told them there were whales, although they had not found them. They now found them, although he did not say [again] that they were there.[10] They ceased getting sea otter.
Afterward, when he had acted as a shaman does for a while, he said: “I wonder what is going on in the house of Supernatural-being-at-whose-voice-the-ravens-sit-on-the-sea. I wonder why a drum sounds.” Then he chewed tobacco and said he would go down and see. And he fell asleep. After he had slept for a while, tcōxō′xō (noise of waking [[298]]up) [was heard],[11] and he called to his wife. He had married a woman he owned (i.e., a slave). “Middle,[12] help me to sit up.” Then she pulled him up.