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REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



were on exhibition at the World's Cohiinbiau Exposition and were trans- 

 ferred to the Fiekl Columbian IVInseuui. The name of the house was 

 given by Q'a'nig-ilak", the great transformer, who, it is said, made two 

 liouses of dirt, one for himself, one for his brother NEmo'gwis. He blew 

 upon them and they grew large. He called the first Qoa/qoak-imlilas 

 (so large that one can not h)ok from one corner across to the other), the 



Fig. 21. 



HERALDIC COLUMN FROM XUMTA'SPE. 



From a sketch liv the ;iiithiii . 



other Yuibri'lag-ilis (the wind blowing through it all the time). He carved 

 four men of cedar wood, and called them T'oxtowa'lis, QfiLqap'tllis, 

 K-'etocii'dis, and Bebekumlisi'la. He made them alive and they lived 

 in his house. Three of these men are rei)resented on the posts. There 

 was another post, on which the fourth one was carved, but it was so 

 rotten that the owner of the house removed it. Post No. ] (fig. 22) 

 represents on top QfiLqapTilis, below a Ts'o'noqoa, which the owner 



