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(1) Walasnomo'jp)is = the great Xoino'^ois (a gens of the Kwakiutl). 

 Walasnoino'qois descended from the suu to the earth and built a house 

 in Tsa'qis (Fort Rupert). His son was Om'aqta/latle. The latter saw 

 many seals and sea-otters on the island Ha'insiqtle (Shell Island). As 

 he had no boat he took a log of driftwood instead, went to the island 



Figs. 7, 8. Carved uprights in the Kwakiutl house, 130414. 



and killed many seals and sea-otters. On his return to Tsa'qis he gave- 

 a feast and gave away numerous otter skins and many boxes of seal 

 oil. Then he weut to Gyoky (= house, a place about 3 miles east of 

 Fort Rupert) and ascended the river that discharges its waters there. 

 Xear the sources of this river he met a man by the name of Ma'kakyu, 

 who gave him a boat. Then Om'aqta'latle wandered eastward and in 

 the country of the Ma'malele}pdahe met with aawatsile^uila, who was of 

 the Tsawat'eno?i tribe. He went with him to his house and took 5Taw- 

 atsile^ala's daughter, Haaq^ola'tleme^a, for his wife. His father-in-law 

 gave him the emblems of his gens and after his return 1o the TTwakiutl 

 country Om'aqta'latle built a new house in Ky'a'^a, the posts and beams 

 of which he carved according to the emblems he had received in the 

 land of the Tsawat'enoq. The two uprights in the front part of the 



