E30A. The ersatz elastic has been replaced by the present 19.20.35.37.40.42.43.

A man who does not have a wife or a husband uses an ersatz made of wood or other material as his spouse until a full spouse appears.

Oz. Kutubu, Tumleo, Banks Islands, Marques, Tuamotu, Mansi, Nanai, Polar Eskimos, Baffin Land Eskimos, Tsimshians, Bellacula, Quakiutl, Nootka, Shuswap, Thompson, Lillouet, Halkomel, Fr. Vancouver (ethnicity not specified).

Melanesia. Oz. Kutubu [while collecting firewood, the girl came across an ugly old woman; she asks her to get berries from the tree, makes the tree tall; the girl cannot get off, but someone supplies her with food; she gives birth to a son and daughter; when they grow up, she tells them to close their eyes; brother and sister find themselves on the ground, the tree and their mother is nowhere; brother notices her sister hugging a palm tree trunk and rubbing against it; inserts it into the bark sharp flint; the girl cuts through her vagina; the brother stops bleeding, converges with her sister; they come from people living on the lake. Kutubu]: Williams 1941, No. 12:144-146; Tumleo [single fisherman; made himself a wooden bed - the headboard is like a woman's face, at the bottom of the vulva; sleeps with her; two sisters come to his house, hiding under the roof; they see him copulating with a piece of wood; throwing a pebble; they go down, he takes them as his wife; one gives birth to a boy, the other to a girl; the children have grown up and the wives are pregnant again; when going fishing, the father forbid the children go to the pond where he kept the small fish he had caught; they came, the fish went to sea, laughed at the fisherman; he came back, scolded the children; quarreled with his wives, they left, and he got poisoned and died]: Schultze 1911, No. 8:75-69; Banks Islands (Mota Lava) [at first, people on Gaua copulated only with branch forks; a man from Maewo sailed on a tree trunk; began to teach local men to copulate with women; he had a boy to one woman; local men also married women]: http://alex.francois.free.fr/AFtxt_select_e.htm (On the people of Gaua).

Micronesia-Polynesia. The awnings [Kae leaves the sea, the fish swallows it, he cuts her belly from the inside, goes out, enters the island of women; they satisfy themselves with the roots of pandanus; K. marries Hina-i-Vaino'i; teaches her, how to give birth (local pregnant women were ripped open); after learning that X. becomes young every time he swims on the surf, K. asks to send him home; H. calls his whale brother Tunuanui, he brings K. home; his son arrives later on another whale; K.'s people want to kill him because he begins to dispose of K.'s property, but he announces who he is by singing spells; either he or K. forget send the whale back, but this has no negative consequences]: Beckwith, p. 502 in Ho 1967, No. 207:367-368 (Russian translation in Permyakov 1970, No. 170:421-429); Tuamotu [Tangaroa swallowed by a whale, cuts it from the inside, comes out bald; enters the island of women whose husbands are pandanus roots; daughter of sister T. Hina finds him, gives birth to a baby; women are about to burn her, but after her prayer, a downpour begins; Rupe shows up, takes her away]: Beckwith, p. 503 in Ting-hui Ho 1967, No. 208:368.

Western Siberia. Mansi: Lukina 1990, No. 123 [Mos-ne lives with his brother; brother (Mos-hum) says that this is not good, he goes to live alone; makes his wife out of wood, dresses her; in his absence, M. comes, cuts and burns a doll, puts her clothes on, sits in her place; brother thinks the doll has come to life, marries her; they have a son; the wife then never shows her face to her husband]: 326-327; Kannisto 1951 (1 ): 250-263 in Lintrop 1998 [mos' woman and her brother live in neighboring houses; brother makes something with an ax; in his absence, she finds a female figure under the mosquito net, still wooden below her shoulders, taller revived; she cuts off one leg and one arm of the figure, hides the figure under a pile of garbage, lies down in her place; brother takes her sister, they have a son; he plays outside, hears three times from under a pile of garbage a story about what happens is that the arm and leg are rotten; the sister/wife asks the son not to tell his father every time; the brother cuts off his wife/sister's arm and leg, then cuts it into pieces, takes the son, goes to the forest; from the woman's pieces of meat hogweed grew up; the bear ate it, gave birth to two cubs and a girl; while hibernating, the bear tells the girl to make patterns on birch bark; when the dog finds a den and a hunter from the city digs it, let the girl will put birch bark on the stake, cling to the stake; the girl was pulled out, the bears were killed; in the city, a girl hides pieces of bear and bear meat, throws it on the roof, then on, a bear with cubs turn into three stars]:?..

Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [two sisters lived, the eldest sculpted a man out of caviar, called Lungie; he does what they ask; threatens the hunter, who gives the dead moose in fear; another hunter drives him away, calls caviar; L. talks about it, the sisters admit that he is caviar, L. crumbles into caviar; two mergens came in the evening and married the sisters, they are happy]: Kile 1996, No. 38:353-355.

The Arctic. The hunter is taken to sea; he finds himself in contact with various strange creatures. The Polar Eskimos [see motif L9C; Kiwiok is getting married; previously his wife and mother-in-law's husband was a willow branch (knots are penises); they threw it into the water, she brought them seals; now the willow branch trembles from jealousy]: Holtved 1951, No. 3:104-120; Menovshchikov 1985, No. 227:437; Baffin Land: Boas 1888 [Kiviung sails to an unknown country; the old woman and her daughter are married to a log with knots; they launch it, it brings them seals; it sails away completely; K. marries his daughter; mother-in-law kills her, puts on her skin; he finds his wife's bones, runs away; returns home; his son has grown up; his the wife got married but returns to him]: 621-624; Boas 1901b, No. 15 [people are constantly tearing the boy's clothes; his grandmother teaches him to become a seal, to lure hunters into the open sea; one Kiviuk escapes ; sails to an old woman; a human head in her house teaches him to put a flat stone on himself; at night an old woman tries to pierce K. with her sharp tail, breaks it; the door in her house slams shut, when K. tries to go out; he slips through, only the edge of his clothes is cut off; K. comes to two women; the young husband has a piece of wood; brings her seals when she lets him go to sea; K. marries her, a piece of wood jealous but powerless; the woman's mother kills her by removing her lice; puts on her skin; K. learns the substitution when she sees that his wife is unable to carry the seal he has caught; sails away in a boat, returns home; his wife got married but returns to him]: 182-185.

NW coast. Tsimshian [in winter, the husband hunts mountain sheep; the wife cooks and weaves at home; dies; he does not bury the body for a long time; after burying, he carves his wife's figure out of red cedar; places it in front of the unfinished with a blanket, makes her fingers move and her head turns when he enters; every time he returns from hunting, he talks to his wife and answers himself, explaining that she cannot meet him, because she cannot meet him halfway. yarn is wrapped around her fingers; two sisters, who were scolded by their mother, run away from home, come to the hunter's house; they see a woman inside, they understand that it is a doll; they hide, the hunter comes, they laugh; when he finds the girls, he feeds them; the eldest eats greedily, the younger one moderately; he marries the youngest; she promises him to destroy the doll]: Boas 1916, No. 17:744-745; bellacula: Boas 1895, No. 11 [ Kasana's man had half his head, one arm, one leg, etc.; carved his wife out of a tree growth, named Culems; planted her as if she were weaving a blanket; Chief Heilzuk sent two of his daughters to marry Kasan; they entered the house, knocked down a wooden woman, hid; Kasana came in, angrily told his wooden wife that he did not need her since he could not sit; one of the girls laughed; he did not marry both, each with a child; went with them to their father]: 256-257; 1916, No. 17 [retelling a text from 1895]: 745; McIlwraith 1948 (1) [at the beginning of time, a single man descends on earth; makes a woman out of wood, dresses her up; every morning she plants in front of a loom, leaves food for her; two girls enter the house, push the figure, her head falls into the fire, burns; they weave a blanket, they eat food, hide; when they return from hunting, the husband praises his wife for her work, asks him to be more careful; the girls laugh; he marries the eldest, invites other people to live nearby, arranges a potlach]: 356-357; quakiutl [the chief sends two female slaves to swim; when they return, one falls into the fire, burns down; the other decides to commit suicide in the forest; walks up the river for four days; sees a house with two wooden female figures, a pile of mountain sheep wool and a spinning rod; a hunter comes in, asks the figures to talk to him; divides the meat, puts it between them; when she leaves, the girl roasts the meat; when he comes back, he thinks that wooden wives have begun to come to life; brings salmon, the girl also secretly cuts them; the hunter thinks that the wives have begun to work; the next day the girl burns the figures; the hunter thinks they killed each other out of jealousy; a girl appears, says that she is the embodiment of wooden figures; after becoming a man's wife, the girl gave birth to many children, they became the ancestors of the tribe]: Boas, Hunt 1902, No. 3.1:122 (= Boas 1916, No. 17:745); nootka [a woman scolds her two daughters, they leave home; in the forest there are two houses side by side; the youngest enters one, in which there is a wooden figure of a woman; a man comes, throws a figure into the fire, marries a girl; her sister went into another house, where Puma and Raccoon, they kill those who come; she manages to escape, she also marries the first man; both give birth to him a child, the youngest a son, the eldest is a daughter; her father teaches her a song that attracts game; the cougar hears her singing, makes the girl teach him a song, kills him, pulls her heart out; the father kills Puma, finds his daughter's heart inside him, It revives it; both sisters go to their native village, but it is empty; they create trout, let it into the river, and all trouts come from it]: Boas 1895, No. 8:112-113 (=2002:265-267; retelling in 1916, No. 17:745-746).

The coast is the Plateau. Shuswap [Kava (Converter) comes to Coyote people (possibly Thompson or Okanagon); there men use pieces of wood with holes from fallen knots as wives; K. leads a woman in a man's house, teaches her to copulate, tells her not to use wood anymore]: Teit 1909:652; Thompson: Boas 1916, No. 69 [Transformer brothers come to the house of a man whose wife is a piece of wood with with a hole; they put a piece of wood in the fire to keep warm; the returning owner finds ash instead of his wife; The converters give him two beautiful women, one made of poplar and the other from an alder log; the first has white, the second has reddish skin, face, body; (different versions end with): instead of women with holes in a piece of wood, the Converters give the Coyote two new ones - birch and alder; poplar and alder; so one is white, the other is reddish (Lytton, Nicola, utamkt); he makes women from poplar and birch (Lytton); woman from undersized alder, tall poplar (utamkt)]: 609; Hill-Tout 1899 [see motif M18A; three transformative brothers enter the house, the elder finds a piece of wood in bed, throws it into the fire; a trace of a human figure remains in the ash; the owner enters, looks for a wife, cries when he sees the trail; the younger brother carves two women out of poplar and alder, revives; one white and the other is redskinned; S. gives them to the owner of the house]: 208-210 (full text: 195-216); lillouette [a single man considers a branch his wife; in his absence a woman visits a house; eats food left for a branch, cleans up the house, makes a fire, hides; one day she throws a branch into the fire; a man cries, a woman comes out of hiding; they have a lot children]: Teit 1912b, No. 9:309-310; Vancouver Island (salish? ethnicity not specified) [a lonely man Quil-Tum-Tum carves a woman's figure out of wood, considers it a mistress; Woodpecker tells two girls about this; they come, hide; K. finds the fire burning, the basket is finished; next time the girls open; the tribes inhabiting Vancouver come from them and K.]: Webber 1936:24; halkomel: Boas 1895, No. 2 (kovichan) [first Sialatza, then Swutlak, then other men and women descend from heaven; S. teaches them how to hunt and fish; the tribes disperse, S. is left alone; the other chief sends his daughter to him; she finds an empty house, there is a wooden woman in it, a spindle and a piece of fat are put in her hands; the one who comes eats fat, hides; S. is glad that the wooden wife has eaten; next time she comes burns wooden clothes, puts on her clothes ; marries S., her maid marries another man]: 47-50; 1916, No. 17 [retelling 1895]: 746; Hill-Tout in Boas 1916, No. 69 [Converters meet a Coyote who uses a piece of wood instead of his wife with a hole from a knot; make him a new wife out of cedar bark]: 609; Thompson, Egesdal 2008 [Grizzly's older sister has daughters, younger Black Bear has a daughter (WC), son and young son; World Cup daughter notices in Aunt's cauldron mother's chest; Grizzly replies that the World Cup will come later; World Cup children lead Grizzly children to swim, they drown (grizzlies can't swim); World Cup children run away with a rotten tree in Grizzy's children's bed, as if someone is sleeping there; they are climbing a spruce tree, the Grizzly comes running, the World Cup children say that her children are with him, asking her to open their eyes, blinding her by leaving what they scraped off the bark of the spruce; the man took them across the river in a boat; carrying the Grizzly, he knocked over the boat, the Grizzly drowned; the older brother threw the younger brother's hat into the fire; he cried, the water in the river began to rise; the brother and sister ran away, the younger one stayed, remained under water burned fire; when he saw the fisherman, the youngest became a fish, bit off (tore it off?) hook; when he becomes a man, he comes to the fisherman, he complains that the hook is missing, the boy says he has found it; stays with the fisherman; finds a piece of wood in his bed with a hole in the female, throws it into the fire; the fisherman says that his wife went out and burned down; that he is the first man, and the creator forgot to make him a wife; the boy cuts down two women, from birch and alder; the fisherman replies that he wants alder, it is his color ( i.e. with red juice); the boy finished the woman, the first man got a wife]: 258-261.