Sho-pow'-tan is Owl, a chief among the people in the Yakama narrative of the cannibal ogress. Lost from his band while hunting, he is heard and pursued by the Tah-tah-kle'-ah and her four sisters, who say among themselves that they will take the lost Owl for their own. The tale, recorded from Tam-a-wash by L. V. McWhorter in 1919, turns on Owl's escape and revenge, for it is remembered as the story of how Owl killed the cannibal ogress. As Owl, he belongs to the roster of bird-chiefs of the myth age and stands, unusually, as the being who ends the terror of the child-eating owl-witches.