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So far I have found the Zias and Apaches the most truthful 

 Indians I have met, while the Jemez are less truthful and more 

 thieving. The Hoh and Quileute Indians are the most untruthful 

 of the lot, and also the most jealous and quarrelsome. Among the 

 Jemez it is not considered a sin to lie or steal, but the sin is in 

 getting caught. Among the Quileutes it seems to be no sin either 

 to lie or to be caught in it. The Indians often do not wish their 

 children to attend the government schools, and tell them horrid 

 stories to make them afraid of the white people. Sometimes they 

 tell them the whites are cannibals and are especially fond of the 

 flesh of Indian children. 



DANCES. 



The dances of the Quileute Indians are many in number; in 

 fact each and every event in life is celebrated with its own peculiar 

 dance. By a dance ceremony the Quileutes invited strangers to 

 visit their village; a welcome dance is given the visitors when they 

 arrive, and a responsive dance is given by the visitors. A series 

 of dances proclaim the opening of the salmon-fishing season ; another 

 series the opening of the hunting season or the whaling season, 

 and so on. Then come the dances of a secret nature. Principal 

 among these are the Ka-kla-kwal, theTsi-yuk, and the Klu kwal-le. 

 These were great ceremonies in the old times, and not to belong to 

 at least one of them meant simply that one was an outcast. We 

 will give a short description of these three dances. 



The Ka-kla-kwal {"lomaneous'' — Trance, Sick) Dance. 



The purpose of this dance is to aid one in going through medi- 

 cine trances; to aid one in sending the spirits from one who has 

 been caused to go into a trance by them. The Indians used to be- 

 lieve, and the old people do still, that unless the dance is given the 

 "tomaneous" sick one will die, to use the common expression 

 among the Quileutes. The sick one imagines that many spirits 

 have entered her, and the dance is given to drive them out. 



The dance is a secret organization, presided over by the shamans 

 of the tribe. To join it one must give a general "potlatch" to the 

 members of the organization — a give-away feast— to the value of 

 $200 or more. Should one try to get in the performance without 

 giving the potlatch he is roughly handled and put out of the hall 

 in which it is held. 



The dancer in this dance has his face lightly painted in black. 

 He also wears a cedar-bark head band, from which at the sides of 

 the head, both in front and behind, there project upward tassels of 

 the same material. In addition he carries a short stick in each 



