356 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



2. ''Do not look arouud, tribes! do not look around, else we might see something 

 formidable in the great house of this really great chief. His house has the 

 Ts'o'noqoa.' Therefore we are benumbed and can not move. The house of our 

 double chief,' of the really great chief, is taking our lives and our breath." 



3. "Do not make any noise, tribes! do not make any noise, else we shall precipi- 

 tate a landslide of wealth from our chief, the overhanging mountain." 



4. [Neqa'pEuk-Em sings :] "I am the one from whom comes down and from whom is 

 untied the red cedar bark^ for the chiefs of the tribes. Do not grumble, tribes! do 

 not grumble in the house of the great double chief, who makes that all are afraid to 

 die at his hands, over whose body is sprinkled the blood of all those who tried to 

 eat in the house of the double chief,^ of the really great chief. Only one thing 

 enrages me,' when people eat slowly and a little only of the food given by the great 

 double chief." 



While these songs are merely a praise of the deeds of the singer, the 

 following reply by He'nak-alaso, the rival of NEqa'pEnk-Em is bitter to 

 the extreme. In it the singer ridicules him for not yet having returned 

 a grease feast/' 



1. 1 thought another one was causing the smoky weather? I am the only one on 

 earth — the only one in the world who makes thick smoke rise from the beginning • 

 of the year to the end, for the invited tribes. •• 



2. What will my rival say again — that 'spider woman;' what will he pretend to 

 do next? The words of that 'spider woman' do not go a straight way. Will ho not 

 brag that he is going to give away canoes, that he is going to break coppers, that 

 he is going to give a grease feast? Such will be the words of the 'spider woman,' 

 and therefore your face is dry and moldy, you who are standing in front of the 

 stomachs of the chiefs. 



3. Nothing will satisfy you; but sometimes I treated you so roughly that you 

 begged for mercy. Do you know what you will be like? You will be like an old 

 dog, and you will spread your legs before me when I get excited. You did so when I 

 broke the great cop])ers ' Cloud ' and 'Making Ashamed,' my great property and the 

 great coppers, 'Chief and 'Killer Whale,' and the one named 'Point of Island' and 

 'The Feared One' and 'Beaver.' This I throw into your face, you Avhom I always 

 tried to vanquish; Avhom I have maltreated; who does not dare to stand erect when 

 I am eating; the chief whom even every weak man tries to vancxulsh. 



4. Now my feast! Go to him, the poor one who wants to be fed from the son of 

 the chief whose own name is ' Full of Smoke' and 'Greatest Smoke.' Never mind; 

 give him plenty to eat, make him drink until he will be qualmish and vomits. My 

 feast steps over the fire right up to the chief. '^ 



In order to make the effect of the song still stronger, an effigy of the 

 rival chief is sometimes placed near the fire. He is lean, and is repre- 

 sented in an attitude as tliough begging tliat the fire be not made any 

 hotter, as it is already scorching him (Plate 13). 



Property may not only be destroyed for the purpose of damaging the 



1 A fabulous monster. See page 372. 

 2 The war chief and potlatch chief. 

 3 The emblem of the Avinter ceremonial. See page 435. 

 ■»This refers to the fact that he killed a chief of the Awi'k-'f-uox in a feast. 

 ■' See Appendix, page 669. 

 6 Namely, by the fire of the grease feast. 



'' The first grease feast went as far as the center of the house. As NEqa'pEnk'Em 

 did not return it, the second one stenned forward across the fire right up to him. 



