THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



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"Whatever the tradition oi" the clau may be, the figures with which 

 house and iiuplenients are ornamented refer to this legend. I am not 

 familiar with all the legends, which often are quite trivial, merely stating 

 that the ancestor met such and such a being. I give here a number of 

 figures, which will illustrate the connection between the clan legend and 

 the ornamentation of various objects. Fig. IG shows the house front of 

 the clan G°e'xsEm of the La'i.asiqoala. It represents the thunder bird 

 S(iuatting over the door, and 

 the sun at each side. While 

 the former belongs to the 

 G-e'xsEm, tlie sun Avas ob- 

 tained from the clan (}'d'm- 

 k-utis of the (loasi'la. Fig. 

 17 shows the house front of 

 the clan G-i'g'ilqam of the 

 same tribe. The bears on 

 each side of the door are the 

 crest of this clan, which was 

 obtained by their ancestor 



Fig. 15. 



MASK REPBESENTINC; AIK-A'A'YOLISaNA. 



Tlie face is painted red and black; ths hat is of luiislin, with a painting on the front representing the 

 sea monster ts'e'qic, one on the hack representing a starfish, and another the feather of a thunder 

 bird. The revolving carved figure on top represents a cod. Scale of trout view, | 



IV A, No. fiSS9, Royal Ethnosriiphk-al M„seum, Berlin. C.,lle,-led by F. Boxs. 



Kue'xag-ila, the son of Hfi'taqa. (See p. 374.) Around the door is the 

 crest of the mother of the house owner, who belonged to the Goasi'la tribe. 

 It represents the moon, G-a/loyaqamc (=the very first one), and inside 

 the ancestor of the clan, LE'lnakulag-ilak-as'd, who was takeji up to the 

 moon by G-a/loyaqame. The feet of this figure are drawn like frog'sfeet, 

 bnt I (lid not learn imy particular reason for tin's fact. Fig. 18 shows 

 the house front of the clan G-I'g'ilqam of the Nimkisli. It represents the 



