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goiug to TsTi'wate. They were not strong enough to take it. Then lie 

 put his copper under the stone. Therefore tlie stone 

 received the name "copper under it." Then he said 

 /'il»l he had received the stone as price for his copper. 



Xow they arrived at Ts'a' wate. Then he used his staff 

 with a copper on top. A hand was on top also. Then 

 he gave a feast to many tribes, and changed his name 

 and took the name Kuax-ilano'kumc. L'a'qoag-ila- 

 qEmae was now the nameof his successor; Ts'ama was 

 the name of another child of his. That is the end. 

 (Appendix, p. 073.) 



There is one legend which is of importance in this 

 connection, because the rank of the various names and 

 the laws governing potlatch and feast are derived 

 from it. I give here a version of the tale, which, 

 however, is not quite complete and requires some ad- 

 ditional remarks. It is the legend of O'maxt'a'laLe, 

 the clan legend of the G-I'g-ilqam of the Q'o'moyue: 



A bird was sitting on the beach at TE'ng-is. He 

 took off his mask, and then his name was NEmO'gwis. 

 He became a man. Then he moved to K-'a'qa. He 

 had a son whom he named O'maxt'a'laLe. The child 

 grew up fast; he became a real man. He was very 

 strong. He walked with his uncle LO'La'watsa on the 

 beach of Tsa'xis and clubbed seals. They were walk- 

 ing back and fro clubbing seals. Then NEmo'gwis 

 spoke to his younger brother Lo'La'watsa: "Friend, 

 don't let us go on in this manner. Let us try to ar- 

 range that our son may go out to sea." He desired 

 to have more game than the sea otters and seals 

 which they were able to club on the beach of Tsa'xis. 

 Therefore they wanted to go to the islands. Then 

 NEmo'gwis and his younger brother burnt the inside 

 of a cedar and burnt its ends, thus making a canoe. 

 They linished it. Then they launched the canoe that 

 they had made for the child. They tried the canoe 

 tliat the child was to use Avhen going to Deer Island. 

 O'maxt'a'laLe was annoyed, and when he came back, 

 his canoe was full of sea otters and seals. He kept 

 on going out every day and caught many sea otters 

 and seals. Then he said: "Let us try to discover 

 how many tribes there are. Let someone go and call 

 them." Then ISTEmo'gwis's younger brother Lo'La'- 

 watsa paddled. He \\as going to La'la'te to call 

 Hai'alik-awae. Then he arrived at (^)ag-'axstE'ls and 

 called Ma'tag-i'la. HearrivedatG''otaqa'laaudcalled 



Fig. 24. 

 speaker's staff. 

 Two hollow pieces of 

 cedar, tilled with peb- 

 bles. Length, C2 

 inches. 



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