White Owl and fed like the owlets already there. Finally their
child was recovered by the parents with the help of Grouse, often
represented with her chicks. The guilty owl was killed and her
plumage was adopted as a Symbol of the event. They they adopted
the owl as a family crest. The child, however, retained through-
out life some characteristics acquired while under the owl's tute-
lage. (Barbeau, 1929, Plate 14, Figure 3; Plate 15, Figure 3,
Plate 16, Figures 3 and 5). Among the tribes of the Interior the
Owl was a bird of ill omen, and to answer back to its hoot meant
death would follow at no distant date.