358 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



At all these festivals masks are occasionally worn which lepreseut 

 the ancestor of the clan and refer to its legend. I will give one exam- 

 ple: In the potlatch of the clan K"'kwri'kuni of the Q'o'nioyur', a mask 

 representing one of the forefathers of the present clan (not their first 

 ancestor), whose name was No'lis or Wa'tse appears, — a double mask, 

 surmounted by a bear (fig. 5), The bear broke the dam which pre- 

 vented the i)roperty of ISTo'lis going up the river. The outer mask 

 shows No'lis in a state of rage vanquishing his rivals; the inner side 

 shows him kindly disposed, distributing property in a friendly way. 

 His song is as follows : ' 



1. A bear is standing at the river of tlie Wanderer who traveled all over the 



worul. 



2. Wild is the l)ear at the river of the Wanderer who traveled all over the world. 



3. A dangerous fish is going up the river. It will put a limit to the lives of the 



people. 



4. Ya! The sI'siuL- is going up the river. It will jiut a limit to the lives of the 



people. 



5. Great things are going up the river. It i« going up the river the copper of the 



eldest brother of our tribes. 



Another song used in these festivals is as follows:-' 



1. The heat of the chief of the tribes will not have mercy upon the people. 



2. The great lire of our chief in which stones < are glowing will not have mercy 



upou the people. 



3. You, my rival, will eat what is left over when I dance in my grease feast, when 



I, the chief of the tribes, perform the fire dance. 



4. Too great is, what you are doing, our chief. Who equals our chief! He is giv- 



ing feasts to the whole world. 



5. Certainly he has inherited from his father that he never gives a small feast to 



the lower chiefs, the chief of the tribes. 



The clan Haa/naLino have the tradition that their ancestor used the 

 fabulous double-headed snake for his belt and boM^ In their potlatches 

 the chief of the gens appears, therefore, dancing with a belt of this 

 description and with a bow carved in the shape of the double-headed 

 snake. The bow is simply a long carved and painted stick to which a 

 string running through a number of rings and connecting with the 

 horns and tongues of the snake is attached. When the string is pulled, 

 the horns are erected and the tongues pulled out. When the string is 

 slackened, the horns drop down and the tongues slide back again 

 (Plate 15). 



IV". Marriage. 



Marriage among the Kwakiutl must be considered a purchase, which 

 is conducted on the same principles as the purchase of a copper. But 

 the object bought is not only the woman, but also the right of member- 

 ship in her clan for the future children of the couple. I explained 



' See Appendix, page 670. 



2 See page 371. 



^ See Appendix, page 671 . 



■•Stones heated in the lire for boiliu"r the food to be used iu the feast. 



