Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

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K27v2. Hit a copper object with an arrow .42.43.

The character must hit an object or creature made of copper with an arrow.

Tsimshian, quarry, quinolt, catlamet.

NW Coast. Tsimshian [a piece of copper falls from the sky, hangs on a tree; the chief promises a daughter as a wife to whoever knocks him down; the man gives the poor son of the leader's sister white, black, blue, red stones ; a red young man knocks copper, rivals take it for themselves; the leader demands to kill a white bear; the young man turns into a fly, is the first to fly up to the bear, kills him with an arrow; rivals claim that They killed the bear; the leader knows the truth, gives the young man a daughter, but tells him to migrate, leaving the young alone without property; a huge frog with brass teeth, eyes and eyebrows lives in the lake; a young man kills her, he puts on her skin, first catches trout in the lake, then salmon and seals in the sea; the young man and his wife and his grandmother living with them have a lot of meat; and the leader's men are starving, they come back, choose the young man as the new leader; he does not can take off frogskin more; goes to sea, sends food to his people]: Boas 1902:137-145.

The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [two var; the chief promises a daughter to someone who falls into two copper rings hanging on a tree with a stone; an orphan has magical power, gets there; in the steam room, the chief makes he's handsome]: Jenness 1934, No. 3-4:121-125; quinolt [people shoot a sparkling duck whose body sounds like copper; the chief has no son, only two daughters; they secretly make arrows, hit a duck, they arrange potlach; all birds receive parts of their magical plumage with bright feathers and tufts; chiefs get the best; Blue Jay is rolled in what is left]: Farrand 1902, No. 2:92-94; (cf. quileut [no one can shoot an unusual bird; the chief of the Golden Eagle has no son, only two daughters; they secretly make arrows, the eldest hits a bird; asks the father to tell his slave Blue Jay call all the birds; everyone gives their color (potlach's origin)]: Andrade 1931, No. 57:171-175); katlamet [a shining piece of copper floats in the sea; no one can harpoon it; two daughters of the leader they disguise themselves as young men, hit the target; copper divides, give blood to the birds; they dye green, white, black; the Blue Jay gets the best part; the mollusk takes it away (the origin of mother-of-pearl); Jay painted with copper excrement]: Boas 1901a, No. 5:39-44.