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One day he didn't come home when he went hunting. But he came home the next day without any game. He started telling his wife that he would die someday soon. He told his wife if he died to put him in his kayak with all his hunting tools and just let him float away.
One day he did die and his wife put him in his kayak, like he wished, and set it in the water by the beach. When she woke up each morning she would look at him. But on the fourth morning her husband was gone in the kayak with his tools. She figured that he must've gone to the land of the dead. One day while she was gathering wood she heard a robin saying, "pitegcurl pitegcurli", and she asked him where he heard that from? The robin told her that there was a man named Pitegcurli living on the other side of the the mountain with two wives.She was very curious about this man and decided to find out who he was. So she went to her cache and looked over all the different skins she had. There was a caribou, a seal and a bear skin. She got the bear skin ready, went into her house and told her children to wait for her. When she went out she put on the bear skin. It was too loose, so she put boards on the side of the skin.
When she went over the mountain, she saw smoke coming out of a house. She went down and hid in the tall grass, and watched for her husband. Not long afterwards she saw her husband come out and get into his kayak to go hunting. While his two wives were saying good bye to him she became so jealous that she went down to the house and killed them both. She then put the women up on the posts with their arms stretched out, and hid again in the tall grass.
When her husband came to shore, he called his wives to help him, but they didn't move. He was curious about this and came up to take a look. Then the woman, filled with rage, attacked her husband and tore him apart. Then she went home. But when she got home she forgot that she was wearing the bear skin, and went inside the house. The children got so scared that they became little birds and flew away. The woman was so upset she started wandering around with the bear skin on. She did this for the rest of her life, and so she became a bear.
Marshall
Cultural Atlas