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La'qt'otpes (sing, of Lela'qt'otpes = be who gives presents to strangers 



only). The top of the column is the 



Tle'selaqeint], a mask representing the 



sun surrounded by wooden rays. In tbe 



dance Tsa'e^a they use the sun mask (Fig. 



11); in the dance Ya/uiqa the dog mask 



Ku'loqsa. This name is said to mean the 



sun shining red through the mist. 



A simpler form of the column of this 

 gens may be seen in Fig. 12, where, as in 

 tbe last case, the face of the sun is fastened 

 to tbe top of a pole. 



(3) Kue'qakila (a subdivision of the gens 

 Omeatl of the tribe Tlatlasiqoala). Omeatl, 

 tberaven,bad a daughter, Ha'ta^a. Once 

 upon a time Ha'ta^a ate sea eggs that she 

 had caught, although her father had for- 

 bidden her to do so. In his anger he 

 ordered all the inhabitants of the village 

 to remove and desert her. The poor girl, 

 when left all alone, made a fish-basket of 

 cedar twigs and tried to catch fish on the 

 beach. One day she found a young man 

 in the basket, the son of ;\pmo'j[oa, the 

 spirit of the sea, who brought her a huge 

 whale and became her husband. By him 

 she had a son, Kue'qakila. The boy used 

 to paddle about in his boat, and ou one 

 occasion he found the head of a whale that 

 was eaten by the raven. lie took it into 

 the boat, and then he discovered that he 

 had found the Sisiutl. The fish began to 

 move his fins, and thus propelled the 

 boat. Later on Kue'qakila descended 

 into the sea to his father, vjomoj[oa. 

 Four days he remained there and left 

 with many gifts. But when he returned 

 he found that he had been four years in 

 ^romojioa's house. Among the gifts he 

 had received was the heraldic column, 

 which is since that time used by that 

 gens (Fig. 13). The lowest figure rep- 

 resents the Tsono'jjoa. On top of it is 

 a Bekuc with a split skull (=man, a 

 spirit of the sea with long hair), stand- 

 ins- on his head- tliP TiP*r fionrP i« an. Fig. 10. Heraldic column Sgntle'qen* 



mg on nis neaa, tne next ngure is an- f the Gens Sentiae ; Alert Bay. 



