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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895., 



arraugement better tlian any description can do. Sometimes these 

 rooms are enlarged by adding a low extension to tlie house, the floor 

 of which is elevated as high as the platform. In the center of such 



rooms there is a small fire- 



place. The plans of the 

 houses of the separate 

 gentes show slight differ- 

 ences. In some instances 

 the heavy beams (H) rest on 

 the uprights (U), the cross- 

 piece (G) being wanting 

 (fig. 9). In other instances 

 there is only a single timber 

 resting on the crossi)iece 

 (Gr). When festivals are 

 celebrated, all the parti- 

 tions, seats, and tires are 

 removed, and one large tire 

 is built in the center of the 

 house. For such occasions 

 the floor is carefully leveled 

 and swept. Each liouse has 

 its name, as will be seen 

 from the view of the village of Xumta'sp«l (fig. -JO, p. 391), in which the 

 names of four of the houses are given. In front of the village the 

 bight Okuiua'Le is seen, bounded by the narrow point La'sota, on 

 which the natives grow some potatoes in a small inclosure. Behind 



Fig. 9. 



VIEW OF REAK PART OF HOUSE IN XUMTA'SPE. 



KrOTii .1 sketch by the author. 



Fig. 10. 



WOOD CARVING REPRESENTING THE Sl'SIUL. 



AVoru iu Irout of the stomach and secured with cords passing around the waist. 

 Length 42 inches. 



n' A. No. 6s;)l, Roy.il EthnoKr.iiihu:il .Museum, Herlin. Cnlleeted by F. Bo.-us. 



this point the hills of Galiano Island, KaxaxLa' and We'xdeoa, are 

 seen, which are frequently mentioned in the legends of these tribes. 

 The island is divided from Hope Island by the Strait of Oxsa'. 



