THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



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After the squid and the rock had disappeared again, a man wearing 

 the sun mask appeared in the door, and when the people began to sing 

 his song, a movable suu which was attached to the mask began to turn. 

 The sun belongs to the G'ispawaduwE'da; the squid commemorates the 

 misfortunes of one of the ancestors of the deceased, who, when hunting 

 squids at ebb tide, was captured by a huge animal. His friends tried 

 to liberate him, but were unable to do so. When the water began to 

 rise, they pulled a bag of sea-lion guts over his head, hoping that the 

 air in it might enable him to survive, but when they looked for him at 

 the next tide they found him dead. 



After the festival a memorial column was erected. It represented, 

 from below upward, first four men called Loayo'qs, or the commander.s. 

 These are a crest of the G-ispawaduwE'da. Tradition says that one 

 night some men for some purpose dug a hole behind a house near a 

 grave tree. They saw an opening in the woods and a fire in the middle 

 of it, around which ghosts were dancing. They were sitting there as 

 though they were in a house, but the men saw only a pole where the 

 door of the house would have been. Four men called LOayo'qs were 

 standing at the door, and called to them nagwi't! (to this side). Since 

 that time the G-ispawaduwE'da have used these figures. 



On top of the four men was the sea bear (mEdT'ek Em ak's) with three 

 fins on its back. Each fiu has a human face at its base. The tradition 

 of the sea bear tells how four brothers went down Skeena River and 

 were taken to the bottom of the vsea by Hagula'q, a sea monster, over 

 whose house they had anchored. His house had a number of platforms- 

 Inside were the killer whales, Hagula'q's men. He had four kettles 

 called Lukewarm, Warm, Hot, Boiling, and a hat in the shape of a sea 

 monster, with a number of rings on top. Tlie name of his house was 

 Helaha/idEq (near the Haida country). He gave the brothers the right 

 to use all these objects and with them their songs, which are sung at all 

 the great ceremonies of the clan. The song of the house is as follows: 



Q6. 



mila 



ye 



eq 



des 



ku na 



do 



s« 



r~t 



-*-#- 



m 



qa 



mila ye 



des 



ku - Da 



de 



Iiela - hai 



degi 



f 



^= 



i 



;ii 



ye deya go e - nu - el - wi hagu - laq aya ku. 



That is: My friend, walk close to the country of the Haida, the grejit 

 Hagula'q. 



