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In the winter of 1929–30, Archie Phinney went to the Fort Lapwai Indian reservation in northeastern Idaho to record stories told by his sixty-year-old mother, Wayílatpu, a Nez Percé who spoke only her native tongue, no English. In 1934, Columbia University Press brought out Phinney’s book, Nez Percé Texts, which records about forty of these tales with the native Shahaptian interlined by a literal translation and followed by a free translation.

Phinney includes two versions of a story in which Coyote travels to the Land of the Dead. In the first, Coyote’s daughter has been killed and Coyote follows her to the spirit world; he is allowed to try to carry her back to the world of the living, provided that he not look behind him on the way. The second version of the tale, in Phinney’s translation, follows.